On-Stage Black-Box. February 23, 2013. 8:30 p.m.
Tigertail presents the creative percussionist Tatsuya Nakatani on Saturday, February 23, 2013, at 8:30 pm, at Miami-Dade County Auditorium’s On-Stage Black-Box, in a concert that includes a solo set by Nakatani and a collaborative set by the Nakatani Gong Orchestra, (N.G.O.), comprised of Tatsuya Nakatani and eight local musicians assembled by Miami-based Matthew Taylor and the ensemble Fridamusiq.
Tatsuya Nakatani, originally from Osaka, Japan, has resided in the USA since 1994. Since his arrival in the USA, Mr. Nakatani has released over sixty recordings and has performed countless solo percussion concerts through intensive touring. He has also collaborated with hundreds of other artists. He performed with his Nakatani Gong Orchestra at the Kennedy Center this past February.
Nakatani’s approach to music is visceral, non-linear and intuitively primitive, expressing an unusually strong spirit while avoiding any categorization. He has created his own instrumentation, effectively inventing many instruments and extended techniques. He creates sound via both traditional and extended percussion techniques, utilizing drums, bowed gongs, cymbals, singing bowls, metal objects and bells, as well as various sticks, kitchen tools and homemade bows, all of which manifest in an intense and organic music that represents a very personal sonic world. His approach is steeped in the sensibilities of free improvisation, experimental music, jazz, rock, and noise, and yet retains the sense of space and quiet beauty found in traditional Japanese folk music. His percussion instruments can imitate the sounds of a trumpet, a stringed instrument or an electronic device to the extent that it becomes difficult to recognize the source of the sound. He has devoted himself to a musical aesthetic where rhythm gives way to pulse, often in a way that is not always audible or visible, in currents that incorporate silence and texture. Nakatani’s primary music activities include solo percussion performance, N.G.O. (Nakatani Gong Orchestra) and collaborations with musicians and dancers both in live performance and recordings.
In addition to live solo and ensemble performances Nakatani works as a sound designer for film and television. He also teaches Master classes and Workshops at the University level. He also heads H&H Production, an independent record label and recording studio based in Easton, Pennsylvania.
Tickets to the concert are $25 general admission for all, and are available online at www.tigertail.org or by calling Tigertail at 305.324.4337 during regular business hours.
On-Stage Black-Box
Miami-Dade County Auditorium
2901 W Flagler Street
Miami, FL 33125
www.tigertail.org
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