It’s been a busy old time here at Madwort HQ, recent exciting activities have included:
Madwort’s Menagerie at St Pauls Sessions
This gig was amazing, the band played the **** out of my tunes, and a really appreciative audience.
Lovely gig tonight at St Paul's Sessions with @themadwort's Menagerie! @chrisjdowding pic.twitter.com/7JE3ovBBHL
— Dee Byrne (@deebyrnesax) March 13, 2015
Anton Hunter’s Article XI in Derby
#Article11 #rehearsing #lotsofbarsrestformeatthemoment @HunterAnton @FamilyAlbumDBY pic.twitter.com/9GT1SvqXI7
— Cath Roberts (@cathrobots) March 25, 2015
Overground Collective
For the first time in many years, I cracked out a big band arrangement for Paulo Duarte’s Overground Collective which we played at the Others in April. I’d forgotten quite what it’s like standing in front of such a massive powerhouse of musicians all going for it & such a privilege to have musicians of such calibre playing my music… Might have to do some more of it…
New Dark Art
We also did another two gigs – Derby & London – playing Corey Mwamba’s New Dark Art with the Eb Sax Quartet (myself & Chris Williams on alto sax, Cath Roberts & Colin Webster on bari sax). The gigs were a bit different but equally great!
Eb sax quartet sounding amazing! pic.twitter.com/gxUBR2FnWs
— LUME (@lumemusiclondon) May 14, 2015
Rodrigo Constanzo’s Improvisation Analytics
I was also very pleased to get involved with Rodrigo Constanzo’s Improvisation Analytics project in a programming capacity. This was a fun JavaScript front-end project built using dimplejs, d3, regression-js, JQuery & waveform-data.js & Rod was a pleasure to work with. You can interact with a live analysis of Rod’s improvisation Everything. Everything at once. Once. (1a).