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Christian Davis

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Music is My Love Snippet by Elan Vytal

Primary Instrument: 
Ableton Live, Turntables
Studio Neighborhood: 
Bed-Stuy
Convenient Subway Lines: 
A train
C train
G train
S train
Influences: 

Freestyling with my friends from 1989-99, Experienced free concerts of all genres, Learning how to mix genres of music, Hip-Hop, Salsa, RnB, Soul, DnB, Electro, Classical, Sampling, editing in Ableton (changed my life forever!)

Groups: Affidavit, Lb., Rising Sun, Dr. Dre, Tribe Called, J. Dilla, Madlib, Wu Tang Clan.

Clubs: Sutra, Deity, Flute, Starfoods, Apt. The Delancey, Moe's, The 5 Spot.

Curtis Macdonald

Primary Instrument: 
Saxophone
Studio Neighborhood: 
South Slope
Convenient Subway Lines: 
F train
M train
R train
Influences: 

Art Pepper, Paul Desmond, Lee Konitz, Stan Getz, Ben Webster, Greg Osby, Steve Lehman, Vijay Iyer, Gonzalo Rubalcaba, Joe Lovano, Wayne Shorter, Miles Davis, Charlie Parker, John Coltrane, Keith Jarrett, Pat Metheny, Bela Bartok, Steve Reich, Pink Floyd, Radiohead, Jaga Jazzist, The Books, Prefuse 73, Boards of Canada, The Foreign Exchange, Aphex Twin, Squarepusher, Nino Rota, Alexandre Desplat, Frank Sinatra

John Licari

Primary Instrument: 
Sibelius
Studio Neighborhood: 
Upper East Side, Manhattan and Astoria, Queens
Convenient Subway Lines: 
6 train
L train
N train
W train
Influences: 
The Beatles, Led Zeppelin, Huey Lewis & The News, Bouncing Souls, NOFX, Strike Anywhere, Strung Out, The Police, The Gaslight Anthem, Propagandhi, Lagwagon, No Use For A Name, Fugazi, The Lawrence Arms, Bad Brains, Black Flag, Against Me!, Bad Astronaut, Dead Kennedys, Measured In Grey, The Vandals, Rise Against, Rancid, The Get Up Kids, Miles Davis, McCoy Tyner, Charlie Parker, John Coltrane, Charles Mingus, Thelonius Monk, John Zorn, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Pierre Boulez, John Cage, Béla Bartók, Igor Stravinsky, Arnold Schoenberg, Claude Debussy, Maurice Ravel, George Gershwin, Geoffrey Burleson, J.S. Bach, L.V. Beethoven, Olivier Messiaen, Steve Reich, Erik Satie, Frederic Chopin, Motown Records, Fat Wreck Chords.

Pamela Martinez

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What If You by Teletextile

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The Western Meadowlark by Pamela Martinez

Primary Instrument: 
Violin, Voice, Songwriting, Music Theory
Studio Neighborhood: 
Clinton Hill
Convenient Subway Lines: 
G train
Influences: 

radiohead, beck, the supremes, the temptations, bjork, sigur ros, zeena parkins, joanna newsom, impressionistic instrumental music, ambient / soundscape music, nyc live music, visual arts such as salvador dali, jim henson, michel gondry; music as a story, music as a dream.

Skye Steele

Primary Instrument: 
Violin
Studio Neighborhood: 
Clinton Hill
Convenient Subway Lines: 
C train
G train
Influences: 

Stuff Smith, Yehudi Menuhin, Simone Shaheen, Joe Venutti, Stephane Grapelli,Siba, Dominguinhos, Wayne Shorter, John Coltrane, Charlie Parker, Clifford Brown, Selim Sesler, Kudsi Erguner, Burhan Ocal, Wallace Stevens, Walt Whitman, Li-Young Lee, Henry Threadgill, Steve Coleman.

William Brittelle

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Dunes Of Vermillion by William Brittelle

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Eyes Of The Ocean by William Brittelle

Primary Instrument: 
Composition
Studio Neighborhood: 
Carroll Gardens, Columbia Waterfront
Convenient Subway Lines: 
F train
G train
Influences: 

Dirty Projectors, Radiohead, Debussy, Ravel, Berg, Mingus, Monk, Coltrane, John Luther Adams, Prince, Beach Boys, Andrew Hill, Animal Collective, St. Vincent.

Testimonials: 

...the music was substantial: a riotous shotgun wedding of rich orchestrations and complex arrangements with the rock-oriented pleasures of flamboyant posturing and excessive volume, Mr. Coale’s fuzz-pedal bass lines and the bombastic precision of Ted Poor’s drumming. Where the two sides came closest together — as when Mr. Dancigers, Mohawk-coiffed and wearing a “Classical Music Is Dead” T-shirt, piloted a dive-bombing guitar solo into a plush thicket of horns — the results were irresistible." - The New York Times

--William Brittelle blew out his voice during a gig with his postpunk band The Blondes some years ago, effectively ending his career as a lead singer. But rather than throwing in the towel, Brittelle developed Mohair Time Warp, in which he lip-synchs his studio recorded, multitracked vocals over a stellar live band that includes members of Anti-Social Music and other new-music luminaries. Brittelle's crafty, catchy music taps ino the best of what Frank Zappa's oeuvre has to offer, while his surrealist lyrics suggest a copy of Roget's Thesarus, the complete Allen Ginsberg, and a Taco Bell menu fed into Cuisinart. Factor in Brittelle's charisma, and the results are completely electrifying." -Time Out New York

If you like Sufjan Stevens but wished his palette was brighter and more extensive, Brittelle might be your guy. It's like XTC in residence at the BAM. A little night music meets Night Ranger in the forgotten dressing room of the university black box theatre of the soul." - Alex V. Cook from Badasses of Contemporary Composition

[William Brittelle] is taking bits of rock and classical and mixing it all together...with alarming speed." - New Sounds, WNYC