I write music, I mix & edit audio, I play bass, guitar, mandolin, and piano, and I sing
Smokeshow
2017 - ????
vox + bass + mandolin + songwriting | My friend Vivian and I get angry-sad and write songs about it.
Solo Work
CHANGE YOUR MIND: MEDITATION (2023)
composition + performance + mixing & editing | Original piece to serve as the backdrop of the core meditative section of Change Your Mind. Featured voiceover is my own, but participants could control which voice they heard reading this meditation by moving their head around in space.
SHOW ‘N’ HELL: SHOW INTROS (2022)
composition + performance + mixing & editing | Original theme songs for Show ‘N’ Hell. Singing by myself and Sarah Lew.
EUCALYPTUS (2022)
composition + performance | Original theme song for Eucalyptus. Written, performed, and recorded in my bedroom in the ungodly hours of the night.
HOLIDAY PET SONGS (2020 - 2022)
composition + performance + mixing & editing | Custom holiday songs featuring company pets created on commission. 🐶
CUTE LITTLE F*CKERS: PODCAST JINGLES (2020)
composition + performance + mixing & editing | Jingles created for Cute Little F*ckers using only vibrators.
BETA DATA DATING (2020)
composition + performance | Original mini-musical about dating an algorithm.
CORRELATION SONG (2016)
composition + performance | Memorization aid created for Quantic students taking statistics classes. Based on Tyler Vigen’s Spurious Correlations.
Collaborations
“BACK TO THE BASICS” - JEN JOHNSON (2022)
production + arrangement + mixing & editing | After my friend Jen wrote her first song, I led a recording session where she sang and played guitar, then I built out the arrangement with bass, cello, and harmonies.
“JUST KIDS” - JAMES KELLY (2022)
backing vox | I wrote and recorded a variety of harmonies for my friend James to choose from for this track from his 2022 album Sidewalk Hymns.
“MAY THIS BODY BE A BRIDGE” - TE MARTIN (2021)
bass | I spent a day in the studio with Te Martin riffing on some upright bass lines for her to use as a backbone in this track in her 2021 album Water & Bones.
GAELYNN LEA
bass + vox | I played upright bass and sang in Gaelynn’s 2019 CA tour, and Smokeshow has guested on Gaelynn’s Sunday Sessions series.