Joss Smith (*1993) is a Welsh composer, currently based in Copenhagen. Joss composes works within various mediums, ranging from purely sound orientated works to electronic music, instrumental theatre and performance art. A linking factor between these different approaches is the use of expectation and insistence to build tension and subvert the compositional trajectory.
The concert experience and its included customs, etiquette and expectations within the sphere of contemporary classical music is a fixture within Joss Smith’s compositional practice. Joss sees his role as a composer to be a researcher and curator, trying new techniques, structural ideas, finding intermedial relations and using the fact that this research will play out in a concert setting as the springboard for creativity. Joss usually imagines the stage as a situation – a setting with included affordances, aesthetic possibilities and expectations which can be utilised, activated or subverted.
Joss is a founding member of Current Resonance, an ensemble dedicated to producing specifically curated concerts, treating the structure, content and presentation of events as a key area for artistic exploration.
