Solo Percussion
Featuring LEIMAY Fellows and Guest Artists
Tatsuya Nakatani
LEIMAY PRESENTING SERIES SUMMER/FALL 2021: OUTSIGHT
Nakatani creates his distinctive music centered around his adapted bowed gong, supported by an array of drums, cymbals, and singing bowls.
Documentation
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Nakatani creates his distinctive music centered around his adapted bowed gong, supported by an array of drums, cymbals, and singing bowls. In consort with his hand carved Kobo Bows, it is an instrument he has spent decades developing. Nakatani approaches his orchestral project (NGO) as an arrangement of formations of vibrations, incorporated in shimmering layers of silence and texture. Within this contemporary work, one can still recognize the dramatic pacing, formal elegance and space (ma) felt in traditional Japanese music.
Object Identifier
AMP.PRG.2021.7000.1Year Created
2021Date Recorded
20210909Language
EnglishCurated Filters
Space / Location
Premiere Venue
Toyota East Children's Learning Garden603 East 11th St, NYC
By Tatsuya Nakatani
Tatsuya Nakatani is an avant-garde percussionist, composer, and artist of sound. Active internationally since the 1990’s; Nakatani has released over 80 recordings and tours extensively, performing over 150 concerts a year. His primary focus is his solo work and his large ensemble project, the Nakatani Gong Orchestra. With his activity in the new music, improvisation and experimental music scenes, Nakatani has a long history of collaboration. He teaches master classes and lectures at universities and music conservatories around the world. Originally from Japan, he makes his home in the desert town of Truth or Consequences, New Mexico.
@nakatanitatsuya
Photos by Shige Moriya
OUTSIGHT is presented in partnership with New York Restoration Project and and Alpha Omega Theatrical Dance Company/SHARING THE STAGE.
LEIMAY works and programs are supported, in part, by the New York State Council on the Arts, the City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council, Howard Gilman Foundation, Mertz Gilmore Foundation, Dance/NYC, Indie Space, and Café Royal Cultural Foundation, and many generous contributions from individual donors.
Ximena Garnica and Shige Moriya Artistic and General Co-Directors
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