Tatsuya Nakatani Gong Orchestra + Tatusuya Nakatani solo + ARTS CARE
Venue: La Sala Rossa, 4848 St Laurent Blvd, Montreal, Quebec H2T 1R5
Date: Sunday, October 6, 2024
Doors: 7:30 PM Music: 8:15 PM
Tickets: $15.00 plus taxes and fees in advance, $20.00 at the door, NOTAFLOF (no one turned away for lack of funds)
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Facebook Event: https://www.facebook.com/events/8134382516616425
Co-presented with Mardi Spaghetti, CNMN/RCN, Innovations en concert, CJLO and CKUT.
The musicians for this edition of the Tatsuya Nakatani Gong Orchestra will be:
Geneviève Ackerman
Miel Azevedo
Annabelle Chouinard
Oscar Coyoli
Marilou Craft
Susanna Hood
Atsushi Ikeda
Chloe Jackson-Reynolds
Pablo Jimenez
Jean Néant aka Joni Void
Shota Nakamura
Roxanne Nesbitt
Fahmid Nibesh
Élise Paradis
Christelle Saint-Julien
Tahlia Stacey
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. His primary focus is his solo work and his large ensemble project, the Nakatani Gong Orchestra. 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. 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.
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ARTS CARE is an interactive sound installation by interdisciplinary artist Jesse Stewart that will be on display in the lobby of the Sala Rossa during this concert. Aluminum letter-gongs that spell the words “ARTS” and “CARE” are activated by the Adaptive Use Musical Instrument (AUMI), originally conceived by American composer, improviser, and humanitarian, Pauline Oliveros. Visitors are invited to engage with the work by moving within the field of view of an AUMI-equipped iPad that detects motion and converts it into electrical impulses that are sent to mechanical strikers that will play the letter-gongs in response to visitors’ movements.