Devin Smith: Full CV

Each year, BYU's Copyright Licensing Office teams up with the film department to run a student film contest where the films draw their literary and musical elements from the public domain. Through my work with the Prelinger Library, I applied to judge the film scores.

Guy Walker unfurls the Lacanian take on Squid Game.

This is Bob and Mark's interview podcast. They had me on to chat about my musical trajectory.

An essay about your body of work coming back to haunt you.

Amy, Richard, and I chat with Bob & Mark about our favorite music of the past year (or so).

An essay about smell, Love's Baby Soft, scent-shaming, and the ABCC-11 gene.

A piece about Alexander Theroux's 1987 novel "An Adultery."

A specially-formatted reprint of a gonzo 4,000-word blog post about the development of the video game "Hard Lads," which lies somewhere between a design doc and queer theory.

A short lyric essay about reconciling Chopin's antisemitism as a Jewish musician.

A meditation on ephemera, masculinity, and the items we leave behind.

An excerpt from Halperin's excellent book "Intimate Alien," concerning a group of Jewish Mystics who, through shamanistic trances, "descended" to Ezekiel's Chariot.

A weekly-ish webzine instigated/edited by Molly Bolten.

An article by Melissa McCarthy, expanding on ideas from her 2019 book "Sharks, Death, Surfers." More of her work can be found here: <a href="http://sharksillustrated.org">http://sharksillustrated.org</a>.

I gave a 10-minute talk about the Prelinger Library Stacks Explorer at the 2020 Code4Lib conference in Pittsburgh.

I was one of the vocalists in this performance of the music/dance piece "Walk on the Frame" by Sarah and Bob Woods-Ladue for the RAWdance Concept series.

<a href="https://music.dennydennybreakfast.com/">Bob Woods-LaDue</a> asked my to design the logo for his experimental metal project <a href="https://i-voidhangerrecords.bandcamp.com/album/onkos">Onkos</a>, released on the notable record label <a href="https://i-voidhangerrecords.bandcamp.com/">I, Voidhanger</a>. I also play keyboards in the live band (video to come).

An article which explores the 2017 horror film Hereditary as a metaphor for an intense romantic breakup.

Another SC-155 slap bass banger for Bandcamp Friday.

A SC-155 slap bass banger to help you start your day.

A small web tool which emulates ASCII output on paper tape, designed primarily with artists in mind.

A remix for Oakland-based duo <a href="https://www.vaydmusic.com/">VAYD</a> (Vernell Anthony Davis &amp; David Young). Drum-free post-trance a la Lorenzo Senni.

A live visualizer for the SF band Beyond the Black Hole (Richard Haig &amp; Renzo Gorio). Built in Processing with the MIDIBus and Syphon libraries, and rear projected with MadMapper (Renzo and Richard handled building the screen and mapping). Made in about two weeks, with a modified version of the Bad Wave visualizer engine.

Rixdorf Editions is a small Berlin press which presents new English translations of the undersung avant-garde writers of Imperial Germany (1871-1918), "advocates for female emancipation, sexual minorities, lifestyle reform and utopian visions." This is the first English translation of Croissant-Rust's "Death" (1914) and "Prose Poems" (1893). Croissant-Rust was a founding member -- and the sole female member -- of the Gesellschaft fur modernes Leben (Society for Modern Living), a Munich-based group spearheaded by Michael Georg Conrad, which worked primarily in the style of "Naturalism."

This article concerns the 1985 book "D.B. Cooper: What Really Happened" by Max Gunther (co-author of the seminal midcentury suburbia panic tome "The Split Level Trap," and rakish magazine journeyman). Though this book is now generally viewed as a hoax by Cooper enuthsiasts, it's none-the-less a dynamic and unique read, and connects to our present moment in unexpected ways.

Hey check out my new metal band...

A companion to last week's <a href="http://outsidelands.org/vista-francisco.php">history article about Vista Francisco</a>; but instead "turning the camera around" for a meandering take on what the neighborhood is like presently, the process of history-writing, and the times in life when you end up somewhere unexpected.

These days, the neighborhood where I live (over on the East side of Twin Peaks), is a sleepy collection of somewhat nondescript apartment buildings. But the story of how Vista Francisco came to be includes shady campaign contributions and backroom deals at the Board of Supervisors; the election of Jack Morrison, a key political firebrand from the environmentalist camp; and the eventual involvement of the NAACP and the Catholic Interracial Council, speaking out against the exclusionary racial policies of the developer -- all with nearly half a million 1960s-era dollars of annual tax revenue on the line.

A review of the recent translation of the best-selling work of fiction in the Catalan, a science fiction book from 1974.

A short article for issue no. 1 of the Mendozaline zine. Mendozaline is "The anything and everything of baseball art... the island of misfit baseball writing." They welcome submissions, and you should send them something.

From the studio that brought you CHASING THE SUNSET comes a very different kind of race... A race against the clock in the cut-throat world of network news. Bandcamp download includes a movie poster.

A small zine designed to accompany the Sweetwater ProGear catalog often found in the bathroom of working musicians, engineers, and producers.

Braids is a post-industrial ambient / horror film project.

Album review of Lana Del Rey's "Lust For Life", using the work of Japanese film director Yasujiro Ozu as a context for iterative artists.

An essay about moving to Singapore and finding unexpected personal connections with its wartime history. Covers the process of researching and writing "Lim Bo Seng" and filming "I'm A Witness".

A large zine concerned with pop culture, conceptual art, and bodies of work. Includes: The Fast & The Furious Rememberances, The Soundlot: A Bizarre Hypothetical, Fact Checking PBS' Soundbreaking, Requiem for a Quirk, Stop The Haunting: 1,000, Corpus Companion, Side Quest: Nevermind 1991 vs 2001, Hard Boiled Babies, and Ten Million Words* About Pop Vocal Delivery (And Nick Jonas' Jealous).

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Breathless tales of soaring romance and daring intrigue. Questionable geography. Made with RiTa and Processing. Tweets every other hour.

Stop The Haunting focuses on the convergence of writing tone across disparate online media publications. I designed semi-automated workflows to locate instances of the word haunting in articles about music, movies, art, video games, fashion, literature, etc. After some formatting cleanup, I queued these to auto-post to a twitter account. I decided to stop when I hit 1,000... but really, you could do this

Testing out some new workflows. Made using Forge and Anvil, the mapmaking utilities which shipped with Bungie's Marathon Infinity in 1996. Classic emulation via Chubby Bunny, editing and color in Premiere.

Lowkey synth remix for Bad Wave's"Time To Get Lost". Includes an extended version with loop points for DJ sets.

See article for Perspectives on the Past blog above for more details.

Each article examines two songs with the same title, usually from disparate styles but within the pop sphere.

Corpus Companion is a system for creating Companion bodies for work, based on the parameters of an Original body of work. Nirvana's corpus is used as the example, with Nevermind being the example for the parameterization of a single work. This work also includes two short essays titled "The Golden Age Of The Archive" and "On Replication," as well as a Side Quest, which is comprised of detailed comparison notes on the 1991 and 2011 versions of Nevermind, and a personal letter from a friend-of-a-friend.

Another set of Sludgepop mixes, this time focused on recent pop songs involving the ambiguity of desire. Video source material comes from the noir films <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0041968/">Too Late For Tears</a>, <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0038071/">Club Paradise</a>, and <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0039757/">The Red House</a> (which features a particularly entrancing score by <a href="https://open.spotify.com/album/3W06YpvpSMKpEoYWpkvtAS">Miklos Rosa</a>).

This song and video were made to try out some new tools.

A few quick SNES-ish tracks to acclimate to my mobile setup.

Directly inspired by the fantastic "Alvin And The Chipumks on 16 Speed", I slowed down some pop tunes and set them to footage from the Prelinger Archives. The resulting videos are a dreamy immersion into some of my favorite 90s soft pop songs.

Remix of the Bells Atlas song Future Bones. Production and writing contributions from Molly Bolten.

Two songs in the style of the classic "Motivational 80s movie song". I also produced an exclusive extended mix for the New Zealand-based bimonthly mixtape series <a target="_blank" href="https://soundcloud.com/rick-shithouse">"Synthetix.FM" hosed by Rick Shithouse</a> (41:00 min in the soundcloud link above). The Bandcamp download also includes a movie poster.

This EP started as a remix of the Panic Bomber song "Snakes of Hawaii", however it eventually evolved into something quite different. These songs are written in the style of classic sleazy Noir soundtracks, particularly Henry Mancini's Peter Gunn soundtrack.

This EP is the first half of a 2-part project by Richard Hargett. After being diagnosed with brain cancer, Richard's life changed inexorably. "Dispersion" focuses on the experience of sickness, and the painful experience of radiation and chemotherapy treatments. The 2nd EP, "Panoramic Time", focuses on the process of recovery and healing. Over the course of the next few years, Richard was able to return to the drums, and began working his way back into his instrumental voice.