Matt Smith

Artist in Residence | Summer 2024

Matt Smith is Grammy nominated producer based in Toronto. He has produced several records under the project Prince Nifty and has helped produce recordings with the likes of Jennifer Castle, Owen Pallett, Petra Glynt, Bernice, Isla Craig, Scott, Hardware, Brodie West and Caribou, among others.

He co-produced Lido Pimienta’s Miss Colombia, which was nominated for the Polaris Prize and both a Grammy and a Latin Grammy award. Smith also builds immersive sound performances and custom ‘surround sound’ and immersive audio sound design for dance and theatre.

Badlands: A Dance In Time

Lobe Studio | August 2024

“Badlands form a memory of the future. In an odyssey through time itself, layers of recordings made over four years carve out a landscape of bodily traces. Sound becomes a body of the real, chasing through pastures, interstellar strings, exquisite corpses of rhythm, shamanic whales, AI terrors, diesel roadhouse bars, truncated lifelines, and benedictions from the open road. Images cut into time like water cuts into stone. Happy trails.”

Sound-Choreography created and performed by Andrea Spaziani, Matt Smith / Prince Nifty, and Julia Male.

Also featuring recordings of Germaine Liu, Sofi Gudiño and Hurricane Hill.
Made in-residence at Port William Sound (2021), Union Sound Company (2022) and Lobe Studio (2024).

This project was made possible with the support of the Canada Council for the Arts.