Piano Craft concerts
Can you see sounds? Can you hear colors? In Richie Smith's Color Room, the deeply personal experience of synesthesia is physically manifested in a dazzling display. This multimedia experience uses live guitar playing to control a projected visualizer and color-changing lights all around the room. Every chord, key, and harmony has its own unique color palette and changes as each note moves. As the room fills with each vivid hue, works of visual art become music in real time, songs and pieces become lush colorscapes, and new compositions blur the lines between visual art and music.
This special set of brand new music is be composed specifically for Julia McGehean’s “for you, no wound.” Drawing from the vivid pops of color, organic textures, and deft juxtaposition of her works, the intent of this set is to open a dialog between the aural and visual. Colors and themes featured in the exhibition will be projected onto sculptures and throughout the room for an unforgettable immersive experience.
Richie Smith is a Boston-based guitarist and composer whose music combines everything from jazz to rock, from contemporary classical to experimental music to make for an event to remember. Through technical virtuosity, creative effects, and exciting arrangements, Richie keeps listeners on the edge of their seats.
Color is at the heart of all that Richie creates. Whether it be directly visible in Color Room or felt in the shifting harmonies of his music, Richie pays close attention to color. Timbre, harmony, dissonance, and effects all play into his internal synesthetic world and this careful attention to detail translates to a vivid experience for listeners and audience members alike.
Richie holds an MM in Modern American Music: Guitar Performance from Longy School of Music and a BM in Music Education from the University of New Hampshire. He currently teaches privately throughout Boston and the greater Boston area. He is also the baritone guitarist of the alternative singer-songwriter band Holystone.
