Brett Smith lives and works in Reykjavík. He is an artist, composer, sound designer and performer currently exploring the threshold into the unknown. His work entangles music composition, live performance, mixed-media installation and improvisation as a way to engage with the unknowable and see, hear and feel it in a new way.
Originally trained as a jazz saxophonist in Australia, Brett gained experience performing in a variety of ensembles before a period of detachment and discovery completely changed his way of creating. Brett is actively engaged with interdisciplinary practices and unravelling the audience-performer relationship in music performance practice.
His first solo work "When You're Here, I'm Nowhere" was a site-specific, one-to-one performance and installation, occupying an unused stairwell in the Art Gallery of Western Australia. As a result of the work, the gallery now allows sound artists to create and exhibit work in the unused stairwell, which has become a permanent space within the gallery dedicated to sound practices.
A frequent collaborator with a wide range of musicians, theatre-makers, choreographers and visual artists, Brett continues to act as a creative co-conspirator while cultivating new solo works.
