Smomid

Smomid uses instruments and software he created to enable digitally interactive performance and multi-sensory experiences. Smomid instruments create sound, video projections and emit light.

He has toured throughout the United States and Internationally, with appearances at Lincoln Center in New York, the Vrystaat Kunstfees in South Africa, the 2023 Jogja Noise Bombing Festival in Indonesia. He has also toured the Middle East in Bahrain, Yemen, Oman, Kuwait and U.A.E as a cultural diplomat for the United States government and toured throughout South East Asia.

Smomid has been featured on the Discovery Science Network, Guitar World, Create Digital Music, BOMB magazine, and Metal Injection among other media outlets.

Website
https://smomid.com/

TechnOrpheus
Installation

TechnOrpheus imagines the myth of Orpheus, the legendary poet and musician of ancient Greece, through the lens of contemporary interactive technology. Orpheus’s music was said to be so powerful that it could charm animals, move stones, and even soften the hearts of gods. Most famously, he descended into the Underworld to retrieve his beloved Eurydice, using song as his only weapon to persuade Hades and Persephone to let her return to life.

To channel Orpheus’s ancient power, we now sculpt sound with electricity, bending numbers into auditory frequencies. Interactive programming languages and SysEx protocols become conduits of enchantment, unlocking new pathways to resonance, and that can endlessly summon tones that fracture, undulate, modulate, transform, and pierce into unknown psychic realms. Light itself is conscripted, unleashed in spectral frequencies and violent shadows, not to illuminate, but to command, disorient and seize the mind in a modern ritual of control.

TechnOrpheus is a threshold space, a grotesque oracle glowing in an elevator shaft, where ancient myth collides with digital ritual. TechnOrpheus envisions technology itself as the new instrument of descent and return, a bridge between death, memory, and rebirth.

Gabriel Hudson Robinson collaborated on the fabrication of the latex rubber head of TechnOrpheus. Gabriel Hudson Robinson is a local NYC resident vocalist, artist and musician focusing on sculpture/ alternative music.