UK-based electroacoustic Producer/Composer and Sound Designer
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Music for self-immolation, nighttime ego-abolishment, or vaguely religious shamanic practices.
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Experimental Electronic,
Punk-Ambient / Transcendental Noise Music, and Post-Totalism
Worked alongside artists such as Ben Frost, Felicia Atkinson,
Valgeir Sigurðsson, Mark Wastell [The Seen], Bruce Russell, Thiery Monnier, John Richards [Dirty Electronics], and Anat Ben-David.
Studied at De Montfort University [Music, Technology, and Innovation] after a period of interning at Sound and Music and Elephant Music (2012-2015). After graduating going on to intern at Greenhouse Studios/Bedroom Community (2018/2019), and co-launching the Leicester-based electronic music label/collective Virtual Ground.
Began working freelance on sound/music for film/media over the COVID pandemic, starting with the award-winning short Nyama [Meat] (Dir. Asher Rosen); leading to being the sound recordist and audio post-production assistant on the feature film adaptation Small Gods (Sovereign Productions, 2024)
On ‘Salvaged Space’ UK-based sound designer Fermata layers and filters field recordings into emotive electronic narratives riddled with myriad voices and details
- Boomkat write-up for Salved Space [2018]
''Harry Smith’s work is always looking in two directions at once: towards sound, and towards process. Listening to ‘Thus’, we are clearly immersed in both of these: it is a glorious celebration of sound, spinning a world of glittering textures, hovering drones, and fractured kaleidoscopes; but we are equally caught up in the unfolding of the work, with the riveting feeling that we are discovering the work at the same time as its maker is, with a shared sense of discovery and rapture. The soundworld evoked by Smith follows its own inevitable path, with Smith perhaps serving more as host or catalyst than calculating composer. But this image is deceptive: there is impeccable mastery and control here – control of his sounds and materials, but more importantly, an effortlessly masterful control of the shaping of time – that mark Smith as an artist of remarkable insight and talent.''
- James Andean , write-up for Thus: Excerpts from a shorter work [2020]
Satisfyingly overpowering feedback-flecked sludge - Daniel Spicer's review of Good Friday Plowshares Missile Silo Witness for The Wire (493, March 2025)
Notable Live Events
Village, Virtual Ground/Moncentral, Exchange Bar, Leicester, 2022
Virtual Ground 1st Birthday, Sophy, Leicester, 2021
Dirty Electronics Pop-Up Workshop and Performance, Haymarket, Leicester, 2019
Solo Cello/FX and Field Recordings, Sneinton Stirred-Up Festival, Nottingham 2019
THE SEEN (Cello) + Feral Concord, Cafe Otto 2018
Live Cello/FX, Something Completely Different, The Shed, Leicester, 2018
Moments of Blitz Installation, MTI presents - Degree Show Concert. PACE, 2018
THE SEEN, Mark Wastell and DMU MTI/MTP. PACE, 2018
Dirty Electronics, Stones and Brushes, and Ribbon and Strings by John Richards. PACE, 2018
String Pillars, Solo Cello/FX Improvisation. Nottingham City Arts, 2017
Kogawa Transmissions, solo performance for field recording, and FM transmitters. PACE, 2017
Performed as part of 'Units for COMA'/'Song 2' by Chris Hobbes. The Venue DMU, 2017
Salvaged Space Premiere, MTI/MTP presents The Music Cafe Night 2. The Music Cafe, 2016
Mark Wastel and David Sylvian, There Is No Love (Mastered Sylvian's vocals). Cafe Otto, 2016
Lead soloist in Anatol Revero's The Instrument as Sound Composition, PACE, 2016
Dirty Electronics Ensemble with the Royal College of Music (KMH) in an adaption of Christine
Ödlund's Stress Call of a Stinging Nettle. Dome of Visions, Stockholm, 2016
Dirty Electronics Ensemble with Anat Ben David, PACE, 2015