About this user
Adam Smiths musical journey is one of many different destinations and directions. Playing and performing professionally as a session musician since the age of 16. Adam has thrust himself into almost every musical situation imaginable. His perpetual passion as a multi-instrumentalist, composer, and arranger lies in his quest to elevate the essence of the moment. To use styles of music as only a foundation to project a further concurrence between the music and listener. His passion for fusing his Film and TV music experience, jazz idioms, art installations and free-improvised directions creates an extremely unique landscape for the adventurous musician and listener.
After spending many years developing his skills with musique concrete and modular synthesizers, his awareness of how psycho-acoustics affect a listener became an important module in his definitive sound-vision. The intensity and dynamics of live performance is also of equal polarity.
In 2009 Adam and German crossover pianist Simone Weissenfels released their avant garde jazz album "Arrival" on Analogsoul records in Germany. The disc was followed by an extensive European tour that included many guest such as Philadelphia Saxophonist Elliot Levin who spent more than a decade in Cecil Taylor's group.
Adam is best known for his long-standing association with the highly-regarded progressive metal trio Deadsea. Other current projects include; An experimental electronic jazz trio with composer/keyboardist Scott Steelman & E.W.I./saxophonist Dr. Michael Cox. Duos with experimental-jazz guitarist L.A. Jenkins and jazz Drummer Dave Caggiano. A high energy free jazz trio with saxophonist Hasan Abdur-Razzaq and electric & acoustic pianist Gerard Cox, as well as doubling guitar and keyboard duties in Jazz-Fusion quartet Descendre w/ bassist Jim Tussing, saxophonist Randy Mather and drummer Justin Campbell.
He expresses his duties in a musical scenario as more of a shape-shifter. Not only within the music happening, but with what is happening in the environment the music is made in. Adams passion it is to project a musical experience that pulls everyone into the creative energy of the moment.
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