Michael Kurth: Shooden Eye for double bass quartet, trio, and duo

About the Composition Shooden Eye was commissioned by Honeywell Arts Academy Wabass Institute This Latin-inspired quartet features virtuosic solos, devastating grooves, flexible options for improv, and tons of percussive effects. Check out our behind-the-scenes video of Michael's composition. About the Composer Kurth has been a member of the Atlanta Symphony bass section since 1994.  Michael Kurth thinks most artist biographies are pretentious and boring, and feels a welcome sense of liberation, not to mention mischief, when writing about himself in the third person. He further believes that all artist biographies should include whether the artist prefers cats or dogs, or is ambivalent. He allows that there is room for ambivalence on this issue. Kurth prefers dogs. He also enjoys shrimp burritos, dive bars, road trips, thrift stores, found art, shiny pants, folk plumbing, collecting odd musical instruments, neologism, and bourbon. Kurth was born in 1971 in Virginia and grew up near B