Chas Smith(1948-2024)
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Chas Smith is a Los Angeles-based composer, performer, Exotic instrument designer and builder who composes most of his music for his own original exotic instruments. Received his Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA) at Cal Arts, Valencia, CA in 1975 and 1977
Attended Berklee School of Music, Boston, MA.
His compositions, which always display his dual fascination with the scientific and the sensual, might owe their split personalities to the diverse collection of composers he studied with in the 1970s: Morton Subotnick, Mel Powell, James Tenney, Earle Brown and Harold Budd.
As a performer, he played steel guitar and pedal steel guitar with various music ensembles and has also played pedal steel guitar and his instruments on feature film scores. Smith has performed his own works at various new music festivals and art galleries, and his music has been recorded on the Cold Blue Music label.
