Full Floor

Full Floor Warmup

No Rest For The Wicked

Hakim Bellamy - The WOrd
Donne Lewis - The Feet (and Bass)
J Stuart Smith - The Beat

Waylaid

Take A Number

Commissioned work for choreography.
Three different meters.
5 - 7 - 6 - 5
Created with Presonus Studio One 2 Producer

Mistress Ariel

Commissioned work for choreography
Created with Muse Receptor T3io.

Keptsackawater

Created in academia with set choreography, dancer generated choreography, and some improv.
Created with Presonus Studio One 2 Producer

Ouroborus

For Donna Jewell
A straight 7 composition

Shining Fall

Familia Mecánica

"Music can be bossy." Choreographer, Amanda Hamp, asked me to create some music to tie together some previously chosen songs for her work "Northern Sky". The work was based on a story of a woman pacing a 9'x7' attic. My job as composer, I felt, was to hold space or push what was happening on stage. Oddly I found the rhythmic section to be less descriptive of the space than the droning sections. Sometimes the interaction of dance can reverse the effects of music.

Northern Sky - excerpt

Created for an aerial dance performance by AirDance New Mexico; the story of young supervillain women discovering their nefarious powers while in search of superheroes to engage in battle.

World Domination

Based on the Queen song "Breakthru", this recording is a condensed version of a twenty minute Choreographic work of Tomaz Simatovič.

If Only I Could Reach You

Dastardly Deed Training

Emotion #2

Choreographer Allyssa Trujillo traveled her College campus with essentially one question, "How is your voice heard?" 
This work was not performed at the College Dance Festival where it was billed due to the event being cancelled. I thought I would share the music she requested of me to go along with her interviewees responses. She had a great vision with a great result.

Seeing Voices

Wobble Control

EDM HaZe

Found Sound - Italian Chill

Found Sound - Techno

Retro Funk

Floor Standing Moving

Turtle Shoes

Beets At 95

Quick Smooth 110

3 In 130

Isolations

Starfish

First, an accompanist.  Second, everything else.
I am a classically trained percussionist, self-taught guitarist, and digital explorer.  I compose and play music for dance daily and have many other projects radiating from there. I’m always ready to rock and see inventions everywhere. 
Here is where I keep samples of my music.

J Stuart Smith

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