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I am a composer, performer (and architect) focussing on creative and experimental approaches to composition, particularly electroacoustic works often with film. My work combines field and source recording, improvisation and other forms of live performance, computer-based sound processing and sound spatialisation. I collaborate with musicians, writing works for their instruments and my invented electroacoustic instrument, the Arachnophone. I use a mix of notation styles which vary from precise notation to graphical scores provoking spontaneous improvisation. A central question in my work is how to maximise human agency and musical authenticity in human-machine interactions during live performance.
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​Peace Myth Composer/Improviser/Architect Paul Smith
THE SEVEN MOMENTS OF MESH MAPS
Debut Performance at Audio Foundation - 12th June 2026
The performers were:
Paul Smith Arachnophone
Tim Sutton Bass Trombone
​Andrew Uren Bass Clarinet and Clarinet

​This vignette features the first moment OXYOPID

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Academic Qualifications
MMus* (Master of Music) - in process

PGDipMus 
with distinction (Post Graduate Diploma in Music)
DipMus (Graduate Diploma in Music)
MSc. CAAD (Master of Computer Aided Architectural Design)
B.Arch. (Hons) with distinction (Batchelor of Architecture)
BSc. (Architecture)

Awards/ Performance
2026 - CTENIZI -
to be performed at 
Sounds of Now Vienna 2026 
2026 - The seven Moments of MESH MAPS - Audio Foundation 
2025 - OXYOPID - first prize - performed live at Lilburn Trust Prize Concert, University of Auckland Music School. For Arachnophone and bass instruments.
2024 - ARACHNOPHONIA - first prize - performed live at Lilburn Trust Prize Concert, University of Auckland Music School. For solo Arachnophone.
2018 - LOGOS - winner of the national sonic arts competition run by SoundDome. A multichannel acousmatic composition intended to be played in a geodesic structure for ambisonics works. Also notated for seven string instruments. The composition was subsequently released on RATTLE RECORDS.
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