bc smith – composer
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BC SMITH - Composer / Los Angeles
The art of musical melange' came early to BC Smith.
By the age of 16, BC was juggling high school and formal music studies with performing in rock and punk bands on the local and national club circuit. Upon graduating, BC was enticed to Seattle as both a protégé of Stan Kenton arranger Dave Barduhn, and as a member of several Seattle bands. BC served double duty in both worlds performing in the Seattle alternative scene while completing his jazz studies.
Switching his focus away from performance, BC began studying with classical composer Roupen Shakerian, and noted musicologist and avant-garde guru Jerome Gray. In addition BC continued to work as an assistant to Ric Parashar as he produced the groundbreaking releases from Pearl Jam (their debut “10”), Temple of The Dog, and Blind Melon.
BC’s diverse exploration of music and composition drew him to the world of commercial scoring and he quickly began working with high-profile national clients like Nike, Mountain Dew and Microsoft who relied upon him to take their commercials to the musical cutting edge.
Though BC quickly found himself in high demand in the world of Madison Ave, his love of pushing boundaries eventually led him to the world of feature films. Film editor Brian Berdan (“Natural Born Killers”) recommended BC for a movie he had just started cutting - Miramax’s “Smoke Signals” went on to win the Audience Award and Filmmakers Trophy at the Sundance Film Festival and BC found his work hailed as “one of the most dazzling aspects of the movie” by USA Today and “crucial” to the film “expressing its shifting moods” by the Los Angeles Times, while the Toronto Star declared “BC Smith’s great soundtrack mix of traditional and modern music, make[s] for an unforgettable combination.”
His explorations of contemporary music are further enhanced as BC continues to contribute programing and synth production to new releases from Good Charlotte, Hollywood Undead, Bon Jovi, Elefant, Dashboard Confessional, and the Veronicas.
Whether working with a large orchestra, rock band, peyote singers, Japanese noize, or djs and electronics, BC is one of those rare composers who is firmly entrenched – and thoroughly fluent – in a world of diverse and eclectic musical styles.
BC's unique voice as a film composer moves between these worlds, combining, reinventing and re-imagining them effortlessly. BC’s credits include the MGM/UA feature “Mod Squad” starring Claire Danes, Giovanni Ribisi and Omar Epps, “Finder’s Fee”, the directorial debut of Jeff Probst (host of the smash TV series “Survivor”) for Lion’s Gate Films and the TV adaptation of the Tony Hillerman Detective series (Thief of Time, Coyote Waits and Skinwalkers) for executive producer Robert Redford. “STANDING STILL” for director Matthew Weiss (Mena Suvari, Colin Hanks and Ethan Embry), “ELLIE PARKER” for director Scott Coffey (Naomi Watts, Chevy Chase), “BEER LEAGUE” (Artie Lang) for director Frank Sebastiano, and YOU ARE HERE, (Bijou Phillips, Danny Masterson) for director Henry Pincus.
BC also scored the film OUTSOURCED, directed by John Jeffcoat from which the NBC Television series was based.
Other recent projects include scoring the Hyde Park / MGM release OTHER END OF THE LINE for producer Ashok Amritraj and director James Dodson, composing the song "Empty Sky" for the Jim Sheridan film BROTHERS (Tobey Maquire, Natalie Portman), LIVE FOR THE MOMENT for Mark Burnett and Jeff Probst, and the animated film A MERMAID TALE for Mattel / Universal. BC also scored commercials for the Dalai Lama, and recorded synths and production on new releases for the bands Good Charlotte, and Hollywood Undead.
Most recently, BC completed scoring the Ouiji horror film I AM ZOZO, for Director Scott DiLalla, the indie film CAMILLA DICKINSON, based on the novel Camilla by A WRINKLE IN TIME author Madeline L’Engle and the animated film MERMAID TALE TWO for Mattel / Universal.
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