Venue: Toscadura (4388 St Laurent Blvd, Montreal, Quebec H2W 1Z5) Date: April 16, 2026 Doors: 7:30 PM Music: 8:00 PM
Tickets: $15.00 plus taxes and fees in advance / $20.00 at the door Advance Tickets: https://tickets.venuepilot.com/e/tatsuya-nakatani-cosmic-driver-iara108-2026-04-16-la-toscadura-montreal-855e61
Facebook event: https://www.facebook.com/events/1468117161638381
Co-presented with Mardi Spaghetti
Tatsuya Nakatani is an avant-garde percussionist, composer, and artist of sound. Active internationally since the 1990s, Nakatani has released over 80 recordings and tours extensively, performing over 150 concerts a year. Originally from Japan, he makes his home in the desert town of Truth or Consequences, New Mexico. With his activity in new music, improvisation, and experimental music, Nakatani has a long history of collaboration.
Nakatani’s distinctive music centered around his adapted bowed gong, supported by an array of drums, cymbals, and singing bowls. In consort with his personally hand-carved Kobo Bows, he has spent decades refining and developing his sound 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.
Cosmic Diver is a duo sound-video performance comprised of Lina Choi and Robin-Dimitrije Gosselin-Monasevic fthat explores an imaginary underwater world blurring the lines between the deep sea and outer space. Through immersive soundscapes, they invite the audience to drift between these realms in a dreamlike state.
IARA108 presents their first live set ever with Shota Nakamura on guitar and vocals, Markus Floats on bass and Kyle Hutchins on drums.