David Smooke - Composer

VIDEO

21 Miles to Coolville
Video and Music by David Smooke. Performed by Dark in the Song (Michael Harley, solo bassoon; with Saxton Rose, Peter Kolkay and Lynn Hileman, bassoons) at the White Mule in Columbia, SC. 2010

Some Details of Hell
Semi-staged performance following the composer's directions by the SKIN Ensemble at the University of North Carolina, Greensboro, February 6, 2010. Lorena Guillén, soprano; Carla Copeland-Burns, alto flute; Jonathan Salter, clarinet; Grace Anderson, cello; and James Douglass, piano.

Toy with Me
Pestova-Meyer duo performing, Xenia Pestova and Pascal Meyer, toy pianos at the Karnatic Lab, Amsterdam, Netherlands, October 12, 2010.

Empty Every Night
Pictures on Silence performing, Noah Getz, alto saxophone, and Jacqueline Pollauf, harp, at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, on the LiveWire2 Festival, October 29, 2011.

h.àt. (homage à dr. teriwilliker)
Performed at Mercyhurst College under the direction of Shirley Yoo and the composer, Erie, PA, April 27, 2010, by (in order): Rachel Reszler, Mitchell Alpaugh, Shana Plunkett, Kelton Macke, Shirley Yoo.

Introspection #11,072
Jeffrey Weisner performs the world premiere of a new microtonal work for solo double bass by David Smooke. Recorded live in recital Griswold Hall, Peabody Conservatory of Music, Feb. 2, 2010.

Four Score
Video poem by Nick Carbo with etched 16mm film and flag. Music is Castles in the Sky, performed by David Smooke, toy piano with Sharon Chung and Rachel Goff violas, Chicago, IL, February 2007.

Dance Music
Duo Vita (Lynn Kuo, violin and John Oliver guitar)
Toronto, ON, February 2009.

blades
Victoria Bass, voice and cello, performed live at LSU, February 2008. Video art by Carmen Kordas.

AUDIO/VIDEO

VIDEO

AUDIO

Empty Every Night
(for alto saxophone and harp), 11 min., 2009

Pictures on Silence: Noah Getz, saxophone and Jacqueline Pollauf, harp (9'24")

Introspection #11,072
(solo double bass), 9 min., 2009.

Jeffrey Weisner, bass (17'57")

Jeffrey Weisner on Introspection #11,072

Toy with Me
(two toy pianos), 9 min., 2009.

I. "Hatching" (2'49")

II. "Rule Book" (2'31")

III. "Snug as bugs in a rug” (2'05")

Pestova-Meyer Duo: Xenia Pestova and Pascal Meyer, toy pianos

Hazmats Sextet
(flute (alto, piccolo), clarinet, percussion, piano, violin, cello),
8 min., 2005.

Verge Ensemble (7'08")

blades
(female voice & cello; video projection), 8 min., 2007.

Victoria Bass, voice and cello (7’40”)

21 Miles to Coolville
(four bassoons), 9 min., 2010.

Michael Harley, solo bassoon; with Saxton Rose, Peter Kolkay and Lynn Hileman, bassoons (8’34”)

Hurricane Charm
(two pianos and two percussionists), 20 min., 2009.

Shirley Yoo and Stephen Buck, pianos; Victor Caccese and Terry Sweeney, percussion. (21'12")

Requests
(solo piano), 4 min., 2003.

Amy Briggs, piano (2’56”)

Trompe l'oeil
(wind quintet), 13 min., 2008.

Quintet Attacca (live at Northeastern Illinois University) (12'17")

Interview on WFMT, Chicago by Carolyn Paulin with David Smooke, and Erica Anderson and Barbara Drapcho from Quintet Attacca

Some Details of Hell
(soprano, alto flute, clarinet, piano, cello), text by Lucie Brock-Broido, 15 min., 2006.

Ensemble Dal Niente (14’26”)

Dance Music
(for flute/violin or soprano saxophone and guitar), 4 min., 2000.

Duo Vita: Lynn Kuo, violin and John Oliver guitar (3’37”)

Stillness and Occurrence
(flute (picc.), ob, cl, hn, tpt, tbn, vn I, vn II, vla, vc, cb),
15 min., 2005.

Members of the Fifth House Ensemble and Merit School of Music Faculty, Amy Briggs, conductor (12’57”)

Breathing the Water
(2,2,2,2;2,2,2,0;1 perc (no timp),pno;strings), 15 min., 2004.

excerpt #1—middle of the piece (2’11”)

excerpt #2—end of the piece (3’41”)

L’EDGE
(for string quartet), 10 min., 1999.

Pacifica String Quartet (9’58”)

Castles in the Sky
(two violas and toy piano), 2 min., 2004.

David Smooke, toy piano, Sharon Chung and Rachel Goff, violas (1’47”)

Anna Liffey
(mezzo-soprano and piano), text by Eavan Boland,
28 min., 1999.

Anna Liffey: I. Life, the story goes (3’05”)

Anna Liffey: II. Dusk is coming (5’39”)

Anna Liffey: III. A river is not a woman (3’49”)

Anna Liffey: IV. An ageing woman (2’49)

Anna Liffey: V. Autumn rain is (5’34”)

Anna Liffey: VI. In the end (5’37”)

Julia Bentley, mezzo-soprano and Amy Briggs, piano.