moving mirrors are an alt. band emerging back in the Spring of 2023 with a pair of singles, the cascading dream pop of 'Wilder State of Mind' and the indiepop meets trip-hop of 'Borderline'. Since then the band have been making their mark on the London live scene including headline shows at the likes of Two Palms, The Victoria (Scared To Dance), Folklore and The Finsbury.

Next single 'Second Hand Lover' landed in summer 2023 receiving positive grassroots reviews from the likes of Mystic Sons, Mesmerised and Lost in the Manor. The band shared their first new material of 2024, 'Never Going Back Now', with Earmilk citing the band as an act to watch.

The Oxford Ambient Collective (OAC) is the solo musical alter-ego of David Smith, an artist who began his compositional journey in his early thirties using software such as Buzz, FL Studio and Reason. He has a  focus on a aesthetic of crafting immersive "ambient drones and ethereal soundscapes." Intentionally grounding his work in the history of the genre, Smith’s creative output reveals a clear artistic lineage, with albums like Berlin Vol. III acknowledging the "subtle German EM influences" and paying thematic homage to the pioneering Berlin School of electronic music. While deeply reverent to this historical lineage, Smith's methodology is aggressively contemporary, positioning him at the vanguard of mobile sound design by relying on a sophisticated suite of iOS applications to perform complex sonic morphing and generate his signature textures; his advanced workflow employs Soundscaper as an "experimental sound mini lab" for textural manipulation, with all audio professionally routed through the AUM mixer and hosting application. This innovative approach powered his self-proclaimed "proudest achievement"—a 90-minute live performance at Oxford's prestigious Ashmolean Museum, an opportunity secured through his affiliation with Oxford Brookes University as part of its 150th Anniversary celebrations. To solve the inherent challenge of engaging an audience with long-form ambient music, Smith transformed the event into an immersive audio-visual installation, pairing his soundscapes with curated visuals from sources like The Internet Archive to command "active listening." The project's visibility expanded significantly beyond this institutional context through a pivotal relationship with the independent Focussed Silence label, which was instrumental in securing national airplay on BBC 6 Music. This success highlights a versatile appeal, with OAC's work finding a home on highly experimental programs like A Duck in a Tree on Resonance FM—hosted by the influential group :zoviet * france:—as well as on sophisticated global platforms where his work was programmed alongside compositions by genre progenitors like Brian Eno and Vangelis. While OAC remains a solo endeavor at its core, Smith actively engages in digital collaboration with a network of sound artists like Encym via platforms such as SoundCloud, effectively transforming the solo project into a decentralized creative hub, thereby giving true meaning to the "Collective" in his moniker.

CONTACT: abearsounds@gmail.com
"I gave up trying to be normal and found myself doing strange and awesome things"
Synthy/vocal/techno/experimental/rap/rainbow workout
Monthly radio show host- and regular club night host  #TWEAK- www.noodsradio.com Bristol 
GIGS:
22/10/2022- Courtyard Theatre London with Utopia Strong
01/10/2022- Doubledotdash Festival- Reading 
14/08/2022 Supernormal Festival- Braziers Park
28/08/21- Ear of the heart Album Re-launch Servant Jazz Quarters
28/05/21- Strongrooms- Baba Yaga's hut with Paddy steer
24.03.2020- Waterbaby TV- Rye Wax Records
20.03.2020- LTR records @Iklektick, London
14.03.2020- Servant Jazz Quarters- Album launch party, London
27.02.2020- Corsica Studios with BodyVice
01/01/2020- Free Movements
28/12- The glove that fits
30/11/- DJ set- Threads fundraiser- Fingers Crossed, Hackney
29/11/2019- The old Baths, Hackney- Turntable ensemble- Sculpture release party
27/11/2019- The Glove that fits- W/Meljoann- Assfuck the boss tour +DJMica Coco 
19/10/2019- Electrolights @New River Studios 
18/10/2019- DJ set @OSE album release party +visuals by Hanzo
11/10/2019- Deliquiem, Lille w/Wild Anima and Kosmuna, France
12/09/2019- Prism Bell performance w/Lia Mice and OBJEKT
30/08/2019- Bodyvice Performance w/lone taxidermist- End of the Road Festival
17/08/2019- Delaware Road Festival- Psyche Tropes room
27/07/2019- Total Cult w/Anji cheung and IDM- Hackney Brew Club
26/07/2019- colchester Arts Centre- w/Phantom Chips and AJA
07.07.2019- Cafe Oto, Baba Yaga's hut- w/ Christopher James Chaplin
10.05.2019- The room of Eyes, Alte Munze, Berlin
12.04.2019- Red Light radio, Red light District, Amsterdam 3pm-4pm
28.01.2019- Noods radio- Tweak show 4pm-5pm
01.12.2018- The sampler as a Time Machine- Lia Mice Album launch- Live show @New River studios
24.11.2018- Steep yourself is Sound 7- Live set- intimate space- St Marys tower
15.11.2018- Deep learning Album launch- DJ set @ waiting rooms
09.11.18- Female Pressure 20 years anniversary party- Mensch Meir, Berlin
20.10. 2018- Fabrique Records w/ Jana Irmet and Christopher Chaplin, Silent Green Kulturquartier, Berlin
05.10.2018- Resolution, Multi channel installation, Goldsmiths university, London
14.09.2018- Homemade disco w/Bass Clef, The rose Hill tavern, Brighton
05.09.18- Queer + Noise, The others, Stoke Newington, Hackney, London
25.08.18 - Free Movements@Set, Dalston Lane, Dalston, London
05.07.2018 Old paradise yard, Iklectick - EAT WORK ART open studios
10.05.18- A thousand tones release party, Ausgang, Berlin
21.04.18 - Atract- Bolzano, Italy
08.03.18- TWEAK- Paper dress Vintage, Hackney London

Your humble musical servants, releasing music on Lost Map Records. 

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improvised music, meandering collaborations and songs

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