Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith Gushes with Electricity

In this episode, acclaimed composer and synthesist Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith traces how changing environments, like her new locale of Lisbon, spark a sense of neutrality and openness, fueling innovation far from the ambition-driven cities of the US. Kaitlyn shares formative experiences with sound awareness, a kind of synaesthesia where music is felt as much as heard, and how time spent in nature nurtured her love for music. Blending modern and vintage synthesizers with the focus in practice of martial arts, Kaitlyn explores music’s potential to give meaning to ambiguity with in irrepressible optimism of where it can all go.