Andrew C. Smith

Andrew C. Smith is a composer and keyboardist living in Santa Cruz, California. His music often involves just intonation tunings, repetition, and language at the threshold of making sense, often connected to computational processes throughout the composition. He co-organizes the record label and concert producer Indexical, which focuses on long-running collaborations with experimental music composers, performers, and curators. He is a currently a D.M.A. candidate in music composition at UC Santa Cruz, working with Larry Polansky and David Dunn.

As a performer, he has given performances and talks relating to his work with language and computation at venues such as the Workshop in the Woods (Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH), CEART (Queretaro City, Mexico), The Center for New Music (San Francisco), The Invisible Dog Art Center (Brooklyn), Stanford University, Bucareli69 (Mexico City), and many others. At the core of these performances and talks is a concern for algorithmic processes as both metaphor and tools.

He has been producing concerts and recordings since 2011, and under the name of Indexical since 2012 with David Kant and Beau Sievers. He has produced events at Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center (Alice Tully Hall), Bohemian National Hall, and other venues as Managing Director of the S.E.M. Ensemble (Brooklyn, NY), and has worked for the Seattle Symphony (Seattle, WA) and Issue Project Room (Brooklyn, NY).<br>