"The ear is drawn to spectrally rich transformations and variants of locally produced acoustic sounds that are heavily supported with gestural affordances and visual fixity. The ambiguity between acoustic and electroacoustic materials is allocentrically fascinating. In particular, you are to be commended for your focus and commitment to achieving autocentrically arresting and emotionally impacting musical sounds in situations that are both technically demanding, and subject to the rigours of live performance. Overall, a project oF outstanding quality". Bardo for prepared trapset review by DR John Coulter former Sonic Arts director at Auckland University
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PUBLISHED REVIEWS
"Concise, beautifully arranged songs, each successive track a small surprise as Smith incorporates folk, jazz and electronic elements into spacious melodies with varying textures. It's modernist folk, protean but with its own unique character, playfully eclectic but with a consistency of focus that lends it the overall weight it thoroughly deserves." Our Heart Beats With Joy (The Curved World Outside) reviewed in the Wire magazine (UK) issue 249 |