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Concert featuring the Sydney based latin jazz duo Soleluna: Mac Hamilton (flute, soprano sax and guitar) and Debbie Tennant (vocals). Mac Hamilton is a multi-instrumentalist playing flute, alto flute, soprano saxophone, acoustic and electric guitars. He is also an audio engineer who has designed microphones for the Australian company Rode, and microphone preamplifiers presently being used in a number of top Australian and US recording studios. One of his other musical passions, not surprisingly, is recording. Mac approaches recording as he does performing - the studio becomes his musical instrument and he makes music on it. The studio to him is not just a means of capturing an instrumental performance. The recorded instrument, or vocal, becomes the raw material for creating a piece of music. Mac likes to reshape and mould recorded parts into a new sonic experience (and the purists might howl and protest!). This way of working with sound has parallels in his other great interest; photography.
Mac works as a freelance professional photographer in Sydney and treats every photograph he takes as raw material to be shaped and refined, or perhaps twisted and morphed. Even if a photograph looks “normal” you can be sure Mac has massaged it some way or other. Some of his images will be projected during the performance of Soleluna on Sunday March 15 at 7pm. You can see some of Mac’s images on facebook by searching for Macdonald Maxwell Hamilton (yes, that is his name). Debbie Tennant is a distinctive vocalist who has sung in many styles, and for that matter, in many places. Last year Debbie spent a month in South Africa writing and recording songs for a CD project. Debbie’s co-writer in South Africa was a colleague from her London days where she sang with many and varied bands. Debbie has a very soulful jazz voice and she is working a lot with contemporary chill and groove these days. She has collaborated on writing songs with Mac and some of these will be performed at the concert on Sunday the 15th. Sometimes at a performance Debbie and Mac will improvise a new piece where the backing music and vocal melody is inspired by the night. And sometimes at a concert things happen that neither of them expect. That is the beauty of live performances. The show itself becomes an instrument that is shaped and moulded.
Mac works as a freelance professional photographer in Sydney and treats every photograph he takes as raw material to be shaped and refined, or perhaps twisted and morphed. Even if a photograph looks “normal” you can be sure Mac has massaged it some way or other. Some of his images will be projected during the performance of Soleluna on Sunday March 15 at 7pm. You can see some of Mac’s images on facebook by searching for Macdonald Maxwell Hamilton (yes, that is his name). Debbie Tennant is a distinctive vocalist who has sung in many styles, and for that matter, in many places. Last year Debbie spent a month in South Africa writing and recording songs for a CD project. Debbie’s co-writer in South Africa was a colleague from her London days where she sang with many and varied bands. Debbie has a very soulful jazz voice and she is working a lot with contemporary chill and groove these days. She has collaborated on writing songs with Mac and some of these will be performed at the concert on Sunday the 15th. Sometimes at a performance Debbie and Mac will improvise a new piece where the backing music and vocal melody is inspired by the night. And sometimes at a concert things happen that neither of them expect. That is the beauty of live performances. The show itself becomes an instrument that is shaped and moulded.
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