Double bass player Damon Smith studied both classical and jazz bass with Lisle Ellis, Bertram Turezky and others. He has also done considerable research of the ´sonic palette´ of the double bass. This has resulted in a personal, flexible improvisational language based in the American jazz avant garde movment and European non-idiomatic free improvisation. He is also very influenced by non-representational visual art and dance. He has collaboratted with a wide range of musicians including Marshall Allen (of Sun Ra´s Arkestra), Henry Kaiser, Fred Frith, Wadada Leo Smith, Marco Eneidi, Wolfgang Fuchs, Peter Brötzmann and Peter Kowald. He works often in the Bay Area Creative Music Community. He has 3 CD´s on his own ´Balance Point Acoustics´ label (bpa 001 ´Mirrors Broken But No Dust´ Peter Kowald/Damon Smith) and bpa 002 ´The Sale Of Tickets For Money Was Abolished´ Tony Bevan/Scott R. Looney/Damon Smith, and bpa 003 ´Three October Meetings´.

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