Tatsuya Nakatani/rent Romus, Phillip Greenlief/thomas Dimuzio at Temescal Art Center

Outsound Presents hosts percussionist Tatsuya Nakatani on tour of the West Coast.

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....

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Outsound Presents hosts percussionist Tatsuya Nakatani on tour of the West Coast.

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.
This performance will be the first meeting with saxophonist/improviser Rent Romus.
https://www.tatsuyanakatani.com/

The duo between Phillip Greenlief and Thomas Dimuzio moves easily between live sampling and sound production from an analog synthesizer. They have been playing live shows for a few years and have a recording project which is in post-production recorded at fantasy studios in 2017. Phillip describes this as one of his dream projects, the result of a long period of investigation as to how the saxophone can work in the musical language of electronic music.
https://www.phillipgreenlief.com/duo-with-thomas-dimuzio

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