Joss Smith (born in Wales, 1993) is a composer, performer and concert producer, based in Copenhagen. Joss is a graduate from the Royal Academy of Music, London as a Bachelor student and Det Jyske Musikkonservatorium, Aarhus as a Masters student and Soloist.
Key touchstones of Joss’ compositions include the building of syntactic structures, the revealing of hidden processes, obsessive repetition and the meta-musical elements of the concert situation.
Joss is a founding member of ensemble Current Resonance, where he is a concert organiser, performer, composer and treasurer. He also performs with ensemble K!ART and is treasurer of Ung Nordisk Musik Danmark.
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Joss Smith
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Jean Baptiste Lully dans l’eglise des Peres Feuillants
Picc, eb clar, pno+midi keys, vln, vcl, conductorDuring the baroque period, it was standard performance practice to conduct using a wooden staff during certain situations. During a performance of Jean- Baptiste Lully's Te Deum at Église des Pères Feuillants in 1687, Lully accidentally injured himself with the staff, leading to his death. In this piece, the conductor conducts with a staff, striking the ground repeatedly. Each strike of the staff is punctuated with percussive outbursts from the ensemble with a great degree of obsession.