GEOFF SMITH
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Composer, performer, improviser, inventor, vocalist, songwriter & percussionist Geoff Smith is acknowledged both as a world-leading virtuoso and a unique innovator and pioneer in composition, technique and performance on the Hammered Dulcimer. He works with various unique designs of Dulcimers in his work as a composer and performer. These include his invention, the ‘Fluid Dulcimer’, which incorporates adjustable microtonal tuning (Fluid Tuning). Smith is based in Brighton England https://www.dulcimer.co.uk/
Smith is also the only musician in the world to have explored, in both composition and performance, a comprehensive spectrum of percussion and drum rudiments on the Hammered Dulcimer. Intrinsic to facilitating this performance technique has been the use of a different and ergonomic design of hammers as well as the method of gripping the hammers: i.e. the way in which the hammers are actually held in each hand and manoeuvred within each hand during performance. Furthermore, in what represents a genuinely revolutionary development in the history of music he is internationally recognized as having reinvented the acoustic piano: https://www.thefluidpiano.com/
Smith has recently released two new albums ‘Mina’, a collection of songs & instrumentals: https://geoffsmith1.bandcamp.com/album/mina
and one of his film soundtracks, ‘The Cabinet of Dr Caligari’: https://geoffsmith1.bandcamp.com/album/the-cabinet-of-dr-caligari
Media Reviews
“The musical equivalent of splitting the atom” The Guardian
“ The Hammered Dulcimer has been waiting for someone like Geoff Smith to come along” Fiona Talkington, BBC Radio 3
“Smith is a virtuoso percussionist who has revolutionized the Dulcimer” The Sunday Times
“This isn’t just an innovative soundtrack, as its echoes positively enhance the melancholic and menacing moods of this intense psychological masterpiece” BBC Radio Times