BC SMITH
Composer • Experiential Artist
Sound. Atmosphere. The Architecture of Experience
Smith’s work explores the liminal space between sound, perception, and the paranormal. From film scores and experimental music to immersive séance environments, his projects blur the boundary between music, ritual, and experience.
Creator of Phasmagorica
A guided immersive séance experience.
PHASMAGORICA
An immersive guided séance combining spatial audio, ritual objects, and participatory phenomena. Presented in a custom Dolby Atmos environment. Each participant becomes their own medium, exploring the thin boundary between belief and disbelief in the paranormal.
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Phasmagorica has been featured in The Los Angeles Times and Forbes.
ABOUT BC SMITH
​BC Smith is a composer and experiential artist whose work explores how sound shapes perception.
Across a career spanning more than three decades and hundreds of projects, his work has ranged from independent cinema to international advertising campaigns.
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Selected film work includes:
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Smoke Signals — Chris Eyre
Winner, Audience Award — Sundance Film Festival
Selected for preservation by the Library of Congress
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The Mod Squad — Scott Silver
MGM
​Djinn — Tobe Hooper
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Hood River — directed by Steven Cantor, produced by Robert Rodriguez
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Edge of the Unknown — Jimmy Chin and Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi
National Geographic series
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Commercial collaborations include campaigns for BMW (directed by Gus Van Sant), Samsung, and Rihanna's AntidiaRy.
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Campaign work has received honors including Cannes Lion Eurobest, and Clio awards.
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Smith has also contributed as a musician to recordings for diverse artists including Good Charlotte, Hollywood Undead and Bon Jovi.
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Magician Member, Academy of Magical Arts
Magic Castle — Hollywood
IMMERSIVE
Smith’s work increasingly extends beyond traditional scoring into immersive environments.
These projects invite audiences into carefully constructed worlds — spaces where atmosphere, ritual, and participation blur the boundary between performance and experience.
Across them, Smith has served variously as creator, composer, and producer.
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Phasmagorica
A guided immersive séance experience combining spatial audio, ritual objects, and participatory phenomena.​​
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Two Headed Dreams
A live interactive magic experience featuring Zabrecky, Penn & Teller, and Michael Carbonaro, blending illusion, storytelling, and streaming audience participation.
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Uncontained
A virtual-reality space adventure housed inside a modified shipping container, for which Smith composed the score.
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Immersive installation — Saudi Arabia
A large-scale experiential environment created for a historic cultural landmark, with music composed by Smith.
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Sortilege
An immersive listening experience pairing experimental music with candlelight ritual and tarot. To be released in late 2026.
Music
Smith also composes and occasionally releases original music outside of film and immersive work. He is one half of the experimental music project A Demon in Fun City, a collaboration with bestselling author Richard Kadrey, creator of the Sandman Slim series. The project explores atmospheric electronics and narrative sound.
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