performance
spike hill and the brooklyn revolution
The Curtis Macdonald Group Live
@ Spike Hill
Monday, April 12th at 8:30pm
Featuring:
Greg Ritchie – Drums
Dave West – Piano
Chris Tordini – Bass
Jeremy Viner – Tenor Sax
Yours Truly – Alto Sax/Compositions
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
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.
extra style in the word “curate”
Tim Gough - NYTimes
New York Times reporter Alex Williams caught wind of how I used the idea of ‘curating’ to add a sense of community to venue promotion, people for recordings, and my overall ideals for production in general. Clearly, as his article examines, the term “curate” is no longer reserved for museums, or at least not here in New York City:
“They’re young, discerning and enterprising, and they’ve got a code word to tout it.”
“They don’t simply put on an event, they have an eye for it.”
Curtis Macdonald, a Brooklyn musician, also says that “curate” precisely describes his job: hiring bands for a local site.
“When given to opportunity to curate an evening of music, choosing the right bands is very similar to curating a museum,” Mr. Macdonald explained in an e-mail message. “Since I, the ‘curator,’ choose personnel based on a particular aesthetic, I am able to think of creative ways of presenting music beyond the traditional ‘call-up a venue and ask for a gig’ way of presenting.”
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