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Thursday, December 7th

7:00pm

Â鶹Ãâ·Ñ°æÏÂÔØLoft Theatre

(located on the top floor of the University Theatre building)

more info & RSVP here: 

For this special event, Nakatani will perform a musical score accompanied by a dance piece in the style of Japanese Butoh choreographed by PhD student Iván-Daniel Espinosa, creating an immersive exploration of sound and movement!  Afterwards, Nakatani will also conduct his 17-piece NAKATANI GONG ORCHESTRA, featuring several student performers from the Â鶹Ãâ·Ñ°æÏÂÔØCollege of Music and Â鶹Ãâ·Ñ°æÏÂÔØTheatre & Dance.

Tatsuya Nakatani is renowned in the world of avant-garde music for his innovative, transformative approaches to playing East Asian gongs.  His approach is steeped in the sensibilities of free improvisation, experimental music, jazz, and noise music, and yet retains the sense of space and quiet beauty found in traditional Japanese folk music.  He effectively utilizes double bass bows and homemade adapted bows in order to play various configurations of cymbals and gongs, creating intensely visceral and hypnotic soundscapes reminiscent of strings, horns, and electronics, incorporated in shimmering layers of silence and texture. 

This is a rare artistic presentation not to be missed!

Thanks to the Roser grant, this event is FREE of charge

but RSVP's are requested: 

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