b schmidt

COMPOSER - SONGWRITER – ARRANGER - PRODUCER - BASSIST

Hello! I've been writing and performing since my early teens in Canada and then later in Nashville. Guitars and keyboards are the main compositional tools in my studio. I've also composed for short films and corporate videos.

I’ve released three instrumental albums (Labyrinth, Bytes of Bartok, Urban Sand). I'm currently at work on a number of vocal pop/AC singles - “Vegas in Your Eyes” is the first of these.

A note on my second album: I wanted to stretch musically in a different way and the result was "Bytes of Bartok", a new take on the 20th century classical solo piano works by Bela Bartok, a Hungarian composer known for percussive (and often dissonant) orchestral works. Certain piano pieces spoke to me with different sounds and colors, so I started arranging pieces using electronic synthesizers. The result is a genre-spanning album with novel interpretations Bartok's music. There's also a video up on YouTube that describes my process re-imagining the piano music into synthesizer sounds ( https://bit.ly/TheMakingofBoB )

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