cmac group @ tutuma’s social club
The Curtis Macdonald Group Live @ Tutuma’s Social Club
Monday, March 29th at 10pm
Featuring:
Cody Brown – Drums
Dave West – Piano
Rick Rosato – Bass
Lucas Pino – Tenor Sax
Yours Truly – Alto Sax/Compositions
at the tea lounge
Wednesday, February 17th at 9pm at
The Tea Lounge in Brooklyn, NY.
The Curtis Macdonald Group:
Jeremy Viner – Tenor Sax
Dave West – Piano
Chris Tordini – Bass
Greg Ritchie – Drums
curtis macdonald and friends III
Hello Friends!
Come to Coco68 on Friday, January 15 to hear:
9PM
Kyle Wilson – Tenor Sax
Hayden Hawkins – Drums
Ryland Kelly – Bass
10:30pm
Alexandra Grimal – Tenor Sax
Pascal Niggenkemper – Bass
Dave West – Piano
Cody Brown – Drums
Curtis Macdonald – Alto Sax
the viper matrix vol.1
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Friends often become collaborators and whenever I team up with someone, I like to push the boundaries. This case, I wanted to see what could be done with a particular harmonic and rhythmic matrix. The sky is the limit! After much tweaking, a few hits and bowed pianos, I came up with this little gem.
The coolest part about this piece is that it is very intuitive to perform. This track is easily performed live, and is constructed so that no matter how hard you try it will sound different every time. This opens up many ways to improvise and interact with additional instrumentalists… As a bonus, all of the samples are acoustic. The goal was to make a live, interactive patch that sounds as if it were a musicological field recording.
sound design for dance
Last summer at the Banff Centre for the Arts, I met a brilliant choreographer Aszure Barton. I was blown away when I first saw company in rehearsal and was fortunate enough to sneak into her Ballet commissioned by the NBOC (The National Ballet of Canada) in Toronto. This past weekend she asked me for some help with the sound editing and design for her recent premiere at The Juilliard School and her current European Tour. I saw the performance on opening night and was so glad to have been able to contribute to the production.
After now having seen a handful of her work, I am particularly inspired by how she employs counterpoint – her content is so compositional and ripe with richness. If you have the opportunity to catch a performance of hers, it will certainly not disappoint. I look forward to next time already, and I have something new to study for it’s compositional content – choreology!
Here’s a little sample of her work with her company, a piece that I saw them work on intensively and worked on the touring production, it’s an excerpt of “Busk”.
