Biography

Stefan Smith studied music at Mills college in Oakland, California, where he worked with musical luminaries such as Fred Frith, Maggi Payne, Pauline Oliveros and Roscoe Mitchell. After graduating he was employed as an assistant to the legendary synthesiser designer Don Buchla. Stefan makes his music with synthesisers and drum machines, and when he is not making music he works as a sound designer and composer for films and installations. For 8 years Stefan was the sound designer/ composer on the infamous ‘Dau project‘ - the biggest film project in history (which was in production for 13 years.) For the project premiere in 2019, at the Theatre de Chatalet, he developed (alongside Rob Walker and Brian Eno) a sound Installation that played in the two theatres that hosted the events. Through Dau he was introduced to composer and sound designer Nicolas Becker (gravity, arrival, Sound of Metal). Through this relationship he contributed sound towards the Philippe Parreno ‘Anywhen’ exhibition in the Tate Modern Turbine hall in London and the Philippe Parreno ‘Voices’ exhibition at Haus Der Kunst in Munich He has worked as a sound designer and composer for the artist Marco Brambilla on several of his latest works - including- ‘The Four Temperament’ which features Cate Blanchett and ‘Heavens Gate’ which was recently shown at the ‘Sphere’ in Las Vegas Recent collaboration highlights have been working with Maryam Tafakory on her film ‘Razeh Del’ and Emma Critchley on her exhibition ‘Soundings’. He released an LP of his electronic music production through Sapiens records in early 2019 - His new album, Thlostones, was released in 2022

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