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Chris McIntyre

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Christopher McIntyre leads a multi-faceted career in the contemporary arts as a solo and ensemble performer, composer, and curator/producer. The diversity of his activities led Time Out New York to note that "...with every passing week, trombonist-composer Chris McIntyre becomes more central to the new-music experience in New York." ( Feb. '08 ) He performs on trombone and synthesizer in a variety of settings that often incorporate improvisation within notation. Current projects include leading TILT Brass and 7X7 Trombone Band , and collaborative efforts such as Ne(x)tworks . In his composing, McIntyre has experimented with conceptual elements such as spatialization, recontextualized notated material, and improvisative strategy, along with ideas of scale, symmetrical pitch constructions, and self-similarity. He has contributed work to the repertoire of TILT, Ne(x)tworks, 7X7 Trombone Band (for choreographer Yoshiko Chuma), Flexible Orchestra, and B3+ brass trio. Beyond performing and creating music, McIntyre is active as a curator and concert producer. He is currently Artistic Director of the MATA Festival , and frequently presents independent projects at venues including The Kitchen, Issue Project Room, and The Stone (June 2007). Visit cmcintyre.com for more info.
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Member Since: 8/20/2007
Band Website: http://www.cmcintyre.com
Band Members: TILT Brass Band
7X7 Trombone Band
Ne(x)tworks
MATA Festival

Influences: Laura Haddorf, Leigh Kallestad, Greg Lewis, Jim Carlson, Tom Ashworth, Doug Wright, Per Brevig, Jimi Hendrix, Miles Davis, John Cage, Bela Bartok, Prince, Iannis Xenakis, JJ Johnson, Ravi Shankar, JS Bach, Tony Williams, Fredric Rzewski, Christian Lindberg, Ornette Coleman, James Tenney, John Lennon, Gil Evans, Alvin Lucier, Don Cherry, Igor Stravinsky, Barbara Benary, Fela Anikulapo Kuti, Led Zeppelin, Aaron Kernis, Evan Parker, Carnatic music, Wayne Shorter, John King, Boredoms, Anthony Coleman, Pink Floyd, Luciano Berio, Lester Bowie, Terry Riley, Charlie Parker, Art Blakey, Bismillah Khan, Josh Roseman, Cornelius Cardew, Deerhoof, George Lewis, WA Mozart, David Tudor, John Zorn, Herbie Hancock, Jim O'Rourke, Leroy Jenkins, Philip Glass, John Coltrane, Olivier Messiaen, Lee Morgan, David Behrman, Gnawa music, Joe Lovano, Sufi music, Peter Zummo, Louis Andriessen, Jane's Addiction, L van Beethoven, The Doors, Arthur Russell, La Monte Young, Anthony Braxton, Sex Mob, Beck, Phonomena series, The Kitchen's archive, Minnesota, 28th Street, BWCA, me mum n' dad, Dr. Anjali Sharma.
Sounds Like: ...many different things, at times in an easily discerned and sequential format, others in a discontinuous, faceted plane of subtly shifting content and timbres. 99% instrumental. Always elements of indeterminacy/improvisation (choose your term), players given space to exert their will on the music within various contexts. Lots of brassed out bliss, especially multiple trombones. Site specificity can be important, as a literal influence on content, a subtextual guide; using electronic soundtracks and live laptopistry to create a sonic space within the physical space, often locating the sounds with boomboxes and/or discreet multichannel output systems.

Hear me discuss my music in depth on Aaron Siegal's Sound Speaks For Itself podcast
Record Label: "compositions for improvisers"
Type of Label: Indie

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