Martin A Smith is an English

England

England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...

 record producer

Record producer

A record producer is an individual working within the music industry, whose job is to oversee and manage the recording of an artist's music...

, musician

Musician

A musician is an artist who plays a musical instrument. It may or may not be the person's profession. Musicians can be classified by their roles in performing music and writing music.Also....* A person who makes music a profession....

 and composer

Composer

A composer is a person who creates music, either by musical notation or oral tradition, for interpretation and performance, or through direct manipulation of sonic material through electronic media...

 who first gained attention working with Stuart Ross

Stuart Ross

Stuart Ross is a Canadian fiction writer, poet, editor, and creative-writing instructor.Ross was born in Toronto's north end in 1959 and grew up in the Borough of North York. He began writing at a very young age and was first published at age 16 by Books by Kids . This book, The Thing in Exile,...

 and The Cure

The Cure

The Cure are an English rock band formed in Crawley, West Sussex in 1976. The band has experienced several line-up changes, with frontman, vocalist, guitarist and principal songwriter Robert Smith being the only constant member...

. Smith's versatile talent has led him to produce pop acts from the 1980s (reportedly to his embarrassment), writing and producing Alison Goldfrapp

Alison Goldfrapp

Alison Elizabeth Margaret Goldfrapp is an English singer-songwriter and record producer, best known as the lead singer of the electronic music duo Goldfrapp. Goldfrapp has a soprano vocal range.-Early life:...

 to working on film scores with Michael Nyman

Michael Nyman

Michael Laurence Nyman, CBE is an English composer of minimalist music, pianist, librettist and musicologist, known for the many film scores he wrote during his lengthy collaboration with the filmmaker Peter Greenaway, and his multi-platinum soundtrack album to Jane Campion's The Piano...

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Early years

Smith grew up in idyllic rural Buckinghamshire, son of an antiquarian horologist and a social worker. He has one brother, Brian.

Adult life

Smith studied illustration to degree equivalent at the Amersham College of Art and Design. By this time he had become actively involved in the music scene and dropped out from his studies at Chelsea to pursue a musical career. A lack of progress with his musical calling led Smith to resume his illustration studies with post graduate studies at the Chelsea College of Art and Design

Chelsea College of Art and Design

Chelsea College of Art and Design, the erstwhile Chelsea School of Art, is a constituent college of the University of the Arts London, and is a leading British art and design institution with an international reputation...

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However, Smith never gave up on his musical calling and spent the 1980s as a jobbing musician producing and composing across the genres of pop, television, film and contemporary dance.

Smith has found greatest creative satisfaction composing music for art exhibitions. These include work at the V&A, Museum of Domestic Design and Architecture

Museum of Domestic Design and Architecture

The Museum of Domestic Design and Architecture is a museum in North London, England, housing one of the most comprehensive collections of 19th- and 20th-century decorative arts for the home....

 and the Cenetrip, Budapest

Budapest

Budapest is the capital of Hungary. As the largest city of Hungary, it is the country's principal political, cultural, commercial, industrial, and transportation centre. In 2011, Budapest had 1,733,685 inhabitants, down from its 1989 peak of 2,113,645 due to suburbanization. The Budapest Commuter...

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He currently performs with Belle Atmos an audio visual experimental music group based in London

London

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, England

England

England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...

, as keyboardist and programmer, Along with Kailas Elmer (guitar and keys) and Bridge Fazio on vocals. They have performed around London with such act as Detritus

Detritus

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, James Banbury of The Auteurs

The Auteurs

The Auteurs were a British alternative rock band of the 1990s, and a vehicle for the songwriting talents of Luke Haines .-Career:...

, and various members of Lou Reed

Lou Reed

Lewis Allan "Lou" Reed is an American rock musician, songwriter, and photographer. He is best known as guitarist, vocalist, and principal songwriter of The Velvet Underground, and for his successful solo career, which has spanned several decades...

s band as well as members of The Fall