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Bil Smith was born in Paterson, NJ in 1957. He studied composition with Pierluigi Billone and Brian Ferneyhough; and jazz trumpet with Thad Jones, Ray Copeland, Herb Pomeroy, and Dr. Donald (Doc) Reinhardt. He graduated with a Masters Degree in Music from Colorado State University in 1981. In 2010 and 2012, he participated in the Darmstadt Summer Music Courses with Liza Lim, Matthias Spahlinger, Rebecca Saunders and Enno Poppe. He is a contemporary new music composer who works in a conceptual aesthetic that eschews traditional notation systems and in turn, creates a new tablature for the performer. Influences include the art of Lucio Fontana, Dadaist Etymology, Alberto Burri (Combustion); the music of Morton Feldman, Pierluigi Billone and John Cage.

Founding Member of Laboratorie New Music.

Laboratorie New Music represents a new aesthetic in contemporary new music. We are a music label, publishing house, and web presence set forth to define a ‘Blue Ocean’ approach to a radically disruptive medium of musical development and interpretation.

We evolved from the activities of a group of composers and performers who are intent on being productive and inventive in the cause of new music.

While we are keenly aware that championing the cause of new music is not new; we have assembled ourselves as members of a tenacious tradition of performers and composers self organization defining the relationship between music, art, and life. Edit