Dr. David B. Smith
Professor, Sound, Music and Media TechnologyDepartment of Entertainment TechnologyNYC College of Technology, CUNYFounding Partner, Director of Creative InnovationRealtime Music Solutions, LLC
President, Bianchi and Smith: Virtual Orchestras for the Performing Arts
Vienna!
2024, March 9-16Back in beautiful Vienna, meeting with like-minded educational institutions and presenting at Modul University on Balanced Blended Space (See "Summer 2024").CUNY IT Conference Presentation
2023-November-30I presented at the CUNY IT Conference on November 30, 2023. My presentation was called "Partnership and Collaboration with Generative AI in Combinative Reality" and was the first public delivery of my ideas about Balanced Blended SpaceSabbatical!
Delighted to be on Sabbatical for Spring 2023 and Fall 2024. Spring 2023 has been split into a first half, in which I co-produced with my wife Lori McCann the Concert series "Plastic Lives". Lori was soprano soloist and I wrote one of the pieces "Life Cycles". These were also first experiments in Blended Performance. We are now on the second half, which involves extensive travel in Europe. We have traveled to Vienna, Barcelona, Lausanne, Bern, Berlin, Copenhagen, Oslo, London, Lichtenfels, and now back to Vienna! Many thanks to our amazing friends who we have worked, played, and stayed with along our way!
This documentary short, for which I composed the music, is now in festival competition, and has already won many awards. Work continues on a full length documentary.
My company, Realtime Music Solutions, has developed revolutionary remote rehearsal technology to allow for distant rehearsals in a time of social isolation
Here is an article in which I am interviewed (along with business partner Jeffrey Lazarus) for School Band and Orchestra Magazine
COMPOSITION
COMPOSITION
over 60 compositions for a variety of genres, including concert, theatrical, interactive environment, and film.
VIRTUAL ORCHESTRA
VIRTUAL ORCHESTRA
Pioneer in live performance Virtual Orchestra.
Three patents
Two companies
400,000+ performances
SOUND DESIGN
SOUND DESIGN
over 150 individual designs for venues of all sizes.
Design and implementation of massively-multichannel immersive environments
ACADEMIA
ACADEMIA
Tenured Professor of Sound and Music Technology
Chair of Entertainment Technology for a decade
Former Dean of School of Professional Studies, 8 years
Extensive development of interdisciplinary and experiential programs and coursework
*In a fit of whimsy, I sprinkle amongst these pages line drawings ("doodles") of mine, which improvization (particularly at meetings, boring or otherwise) has been a source of comfort
