Barton Smith – Reelizations 2

Barton Smith’s gorgeous “one-person orchestra” tape compositions using a mixture of acoustic, electronic, and found instruments. While clearly experimental in approach, the music was actually composed with the intention of being used for accompaniment in film, radio, and television. From the liner notes… “Barton Smith has been compelled to write and perform his music not only on conventional instruments, but on many unique combinations or pieces of instruments, bottles, hollow cardboard tubes, car brakedrums , the squeal of a swivel chair and other useful objects found abandoned in the streets. Where most people find only trash and uncaring neglect, Barton finds new ways to orchestrate his music, often fashioning new instruments from anything donated by friends and the environment.”

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