Samson G Balfour Smith

Samson G Balfour Smith is a French/British electronic musician, record producer, 3d artist, video artist, film director and live performance artist.

Musical life

Samson G Balfour Smith was on the Berlin record label Bpitch control, where he was signed by Ellen Allien in 2004. Samson lives and performs in Berlin, beside performing all over the globe.

Between 2011 and 2012, Samson built his own graph sound instruments, to perform under the name SCREEN NOISE project, becoming multi media artist since (3d work, video work, instrument creator)

3D artist, video artist

-- since 2023 Samson is working with Evelyn Bencicova on a duo collaboration artwork called Æther.

-co director & working as 3d artist, sound artist, soundtrack composition, video artist & instrument creator

the artwork was commissioned, published, seen & currently in exhibitions :

1 Germany :

modern art museum Fotografiska Berlin for the opening exhibition called Nude

Wehrmuehle museum for exhibition Aura's present decay

2 Portugal :

in Artemis Gallery Lisbon

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Modular graph sound instrument creator

About the Modular graph sound instrument created by Samson :

- 2013 First publication of the instrument concept & philosophy :

Occulto Magazine Berlin Issue E

The Graphic sounds idea comes from Samson's(Screenoise) early childhood dream of making images as the base of sound architecture versus traditional audio production. Keeping this vision growing in 2011 he committed 2 years to create this original digital/analogue graphic audio modular synthesis instrument that will free the graphic sound from its usual mode of being only slave to sound dynamics and placing it to the core graph input on the very top modular synthesis chain.

Outside of ever evolving structures of these multiple instruments and modules , he translated the ideas of Graphic Sounds into visual 2D and 3D sound practices as organic bodies of magnetic forces coming from this new sciences and interactions. This practice further developed to merging video and render recording into a unique world of immersive soundscapes, where sound acts as active narrator and protagonist.