​BC Smith creates immersive, adults-only journeys into the paranormal — blending story, ritual, mystery, and dark humor. A film and television composer and magician member of the Magic Castle, Smith’s work spans Dolby Atmos installations, bespoke theatrical séances, and private events inspired by the occult salons of the early 1900s
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Twilight Disturbances is his studio: a home for immersive art, paramusicology, and modern séances and magic.
A personal note.....
My fascination with the liminal power of music began early, with Mahler’s Sixth Symphony - the Tragic - and the mythology surrounding its “hammer of fate.” The idea that a composition could entangle itself with destiny lodged itself in me as a young composer.
Years later, while scoring a film, I worked with Peyote singers Verdell Primeaux & Johnny Mike, whose ceremonial songs function as navigational tools in the spirit world. Their understanding of sound as orientation rather than expression clarified something Mahler had only hinted at:
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Music is invocation.
It is manifestation.
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These overlapping influences - one classical, one ritual - formed the foundation of what I would eventually come to know as paramusicology: the study of sound as a threshold between worlds.