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Christian Smith Percussion
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Christian is a percussionist residing in Den Haag after completing a two year Swiss Excellence and Fulbright Scholarship (2014-16) and an MAP at the Hochschule für Musik Basel with Christian Dierstein. Previously, he has received an M.M. from the McGill Schulich School of Music with Aiyun Huang and Fabrice Marandola and a B.M. at Oberlin College-Conservatory where he studied with Prof. Michael Rosen. Additionally he has received fellowships to attend the Lucerne Festival Academy, MusicX and the Summer Institute for Contemporary Performance Practice.
Christian has worked extensively with many composers of the new generation. The partnership with Boston composer Marek Poliks has produced an insanely virtuosic piece for melodica, a physically treacherous work for destroyed guitar, a tracing of the void (Maw/Maw2017), and currently an evening-length voyage-installation for acoustic spaceship (White Ship, premiere schedule for Munich Biennale 2018).
Christian has worked extensively with many composers of the new generation. The partnership with Boston composer Marek Poliks has produced an insanely virtuosic piece for melodica, a physically treacherous work for destroyed guitar, a tracing of the void (Maw/Maw2017), and currently an evening-length voyage-installation for acoustic spaceship (White Ship, premiere schedule for Munich Biennale 2018).
Santiago Díez Fischer - under the redwood tree my grave was laid (2023)
Performance by
Christian Streit Smith (bowed spatula and ruler)
&
Hilde Wollenstein (Electronic cue triggering and voice)
on November 30th, 2024
at Studio Loos, The Hague
as the conclusion to Christian & Hilde's Artistic Research Residency at Studio Loos.
Under the redwood tree my grave was laid, and I beguiled my true love to lie down. The stream of our kiss put a waterway around the world, where love like a refugee sailed in the last ship. My hair made a shroud, and kept the coyotes at bay while we wrote our cyphers with anatomy. The winds boomed triumph, our spines seemed overburdened, and our bones groaned like old trees, but a smile like a cobweb was fastened across the mouth of the cave of fate.
Fear will be a terrible fox at my vitals under my tunic of behaviour.
Oh, canary, sing out in the thunderstorm, prove your yellow pride. Give me a reason for courage or a way to be brave. But nothing tangible comes to rescue my besieged sanity, and I cannot decipher the code of the eucalyptus thumping on my roof.
I am unnerved by the opponents of God, and God is out of earshot. I must spin good ghosts out of my hope to oppose the hordes at my window. If those who look in see me condescend to barricade the door, they will know too much and crowd in to overcome me.
The parchment philosopher has no traffic with the night, and no conception of the price of love. With smoky circles of thought he tries to combat the fog, and with anagrams to defeat anatomy. I posture in vain with his weapons, even though I am balmed with his nicotine herbs.
Moon, moon, rise in the sky to be a reminder of comfort and the hour when I was brave.
from Elizabeth Smart's By Grand Central Station I Sat Down And Wept
Christian Streit Smith (bowed spatula and ruler)
&
Hilde Wollenstein (Electronic cue triggering and voice)
on November 30th, 2024
at Studio Loos, The Hague
as the conclusion to Christian & Hilde's Artistic Research Residency at Studio Loos.
Under the redwood tree my grave was laid, and I beguiled my true love to lie down. The stream of our kiss put a waterway around the world, where love like a refugee sailed in the last ship. My hair made a shroud, and kept the coyotes at bay while we wrote our cyphers with anatomy. The winds boomed triumph, our spines seemed overburdened, and our bones groaned like old trees, but a smile like a cobweb was fastened across the mouth of the cave of fate.
Fear will be a terrible fox at my vitals under my tunic of behaviour.
Oh, canary, sing out in the thunderstorm, prove your yellow pride. Give me a reason for courage or a way to be brave. But nothing tangible comes to rescue my besieged sanity, and I cannot decipher the code of the eucalyptus thumping on my roof.
I am unnerved by the opponents of God, and God is out of earshot. I must spin good ghosts out of my hope to oppose the hordes at my window. If those who look in see me condescend to barricade the door, they will know too much and crowd in to overcome me.
The parchment philosopher has no traffic with the night, and no conception of the price of love. With smoky circles of thought he tries to combat the fog, and with anagrams to defeat anatomy. I posture in vain with his weapons, even though I am balmed with his nicotine herbs.
Moon, moon, rise in the sky to be a reminder of comfort and the hour when I was brave.
from Elizabeth Smart's By Grand Central Station I Sat Down And Wept
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SKRTCH live in Sofia, Bulgaria November 7, 2023
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Vlad Vlaev, Objects & Electronics Christian Streit Smith Percussion & Electronics
Christian Streit Smith & Izabel Pacewicz @ Greyspace In The Middle (Wasteland 2022 Edition)
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This is an edit of a 40 minute performance myself and dancer Izabel Pacewicz gave at the closing event for Wasteland Edition No. 1 at The Greyspace in the Middle, The Hague on July 16th, 2022. thegreyspace.net/program/wasteland-2022/ Christian Smith (b. 1990 USA) is a percussionist, dj, video editor, and landscaper living in The Hague since 2016. Currently he is working on projects with Oerknal...
himsaintchrist - Ambient Holiday Mixtape (2021 End of Year List)
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Soundcloud : soundcloud.com/christian-s-smith/himsaintchrist-ambient-holiday-mixtape-2021-end-of-year-list A few of my favourite Releases/re-releases this year. Dissolve to Evolve - Mikkel Rev Touchless - Matt Evans Pyroclasts C# (BBC6 Music: Live Version) - SUNN O))) holy days of obligation, waiting in line, postage questions - Chaperone Between You & I Is a Sea Aflame (Coral and Bonedust) - I...
Procesioni - DAM Festival 2020 - Christian Smith Solo Percussion
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Music by Jessie Marino, Leo Lehtinen, Esaias Järnegard, and Christian Smith Supported by and Programmed for the Digital Dam Festival 2020 & 2021. Video and Audio Production by Christian Smith (Anarres mastered by Murat Çolak, Kuarup A Mixed by E. Jarnegard) Anarres can be streamed and purchased as part of the full length 'Blue Scatter' here: christiansmith1.bandcamp.com/album/blue-scatter-lp ww...
Avalon Orchard by Eva-Maria Houben
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Recorded in Leiden, NL March 15, 2020 by Oerknal Beste Sevindik (Guest Artist), Violin René Van Munster, Cello Christian Smith, Keyboard Sine Tones Avalon Orchard was written in 2013 for the 840 collective
SKRTCH ver 1.2
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Live @ Studio Loos, The Hague February 11, 2020 Christian Smith, percussion, electronics, voice Vlad V Vlaev, voice, electronics, feedback Audio Engineer: Weston Olencki Video Recording & Edit: Christian Smith
Jesse Broekman - Body of Unseen Beings | Christian Smith Percussion
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Jesse Broekman wrote Body of Unseen Beings in 2016 for Brian Archinal (Ensemble Nikel) shortly after his piece for my group Oerknal in The Hague, Narrow|Numerous, and is featured on our album of the same name:www.7mntn.com/narrow-numerous/ and here: ua-cam.com/video/EhM910mG7Gs/v-deo.html Much of the rhythmic material in the older piece is featured heavily in BOUS. This performance is from Octo...
Infinite Looper - Marek Poliks , Christian Smith
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Documentation of Studio LOOS (Den Haag, NL) residency October 2017 Music for amplified objects, samplers, and video Video Credits in order (filed under Creative Commons license): I-phone Video of Beach - Christian Smith ua-cam.com/video/JdeYJSOdDKY/v-deo.html Visuals by Mark Stebbing ua-cam.com/video/D30r0iRH73Q/v-deo.html Playthrough of Myst I by the Adventure Gamer Various edits of Metroid Pr...
Pierluigi Billone - Mani.Gonxha
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Performance from CASS, Buffalo, NY March 4th 2018
Déjà Vu Trailer | Jessie Downs & Christian Smith
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Christian Smith and Jessie Downs Present 'Déjà Vu' , a concert of experimental music for voice and percussion @ The Cass Project (Boiler Room Space) 500 Seneca, Buffalo, NY *entrance is off of Myrtle* Sunday March 4th, 2018 4-6pm 10-20$ sliding scale thecassproject.org/events/ events/113362549490683/ Eva Maria Houben - Rast for voice and vibraphone Alex Huddleston - Plague Journal ...
abglanzbeladen/auseinandergeschrieben by Richard Barrett
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Recorded July 2014 @ McGill Schulich School of Music
Blues Fall, Fool from Tombstones by Michael Pisaro
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Klaus Linder Saal, June 2016, Basel, CH From Left to Right: Louis Frères, bass e-guitar Assel Abilseitova, piano Adrián Alb, Euphonium Nora Was, Voice Jacobo Hernández Enriquez, violin Christian Smith, percussion Sylvain Haenen, e-guitar
Bone Alphabet - Brian Ferneyhough
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Live @ soundSCAPE 2015, Maccagno, Italy soundscapefestival.org Video: Tina Tallon, SALT Arts Documentation saltartsdocumentation.com Audio Engineer: Aaron Crawford, www.linkedin.com/in/aaron-crawford-bb259a9a
Esaias Järnegard - Ax, Strå
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Carlos E. Lopez, piano Nuno Pinto, e-guitar Christian Smith, e-guitar pedals (volume, distortion), inside piano actions Jan Gubser, Sound Engineer “Every separation is a link”. Simone Weil’s metaphor, metaxu, echoes thoroughly in Ax, Strå. Between the relation of sounds as well as performers. Each point of contact with hands or feet is defined by the response or lack of response from the other...
Torpid Smoke (2016) by Jessie Downs (1991)
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Torpid Smoke (2016) by Jessie Downs (1991)
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Great performance, thanks!
Dude, this is like the only version of this piece for me now. Many young percussionists do a great job tackling it but you fking OWN it. And didn't you play this for Brian in a masterclass? and he was just like... Ok I guess we'll just talk about musicality and form because it's basically flawless
yoooo thank you soo much Max!
That was a very pleasant evening! Great work with the video, Christian! (apart of the performance) :)
よい曲です。
I'd love to see the score for this
www.stretta-music.com/en/ferneyhough-bone-alphabet-1991-92-nr-368770.html
This is awesome!!
Thank You!!!
This is phenomenal!
thanks!!!!
Sending love from Oberlin!
Say hi to MR :)
soundSCAPEfestival.org
making the addition now!
What a great piece! Thanks for posting!
Thanks, please subscribe if you feel like it! and check out the rest of the videos on my channel when you've got the time :)
Christian Smith, I just "discovered" your channel! You are immensely talented! I certainly plan to subscribe!
Thank you,,
Thank you!!!