JOIN US FOR A NIGHT OF DEEP JAZZ
The Artists:
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.
Danny Kamins plays saxophone, bass clarinet, and directs the Rice University Jazz Bands.
Joey Reyes is a cellist, composer, and live coder who has scored art installations, restorative yoga workshops, theatrical works, and nature films. His live performances are enrapturing, described by the Austin American Statesman as “simultaneously soothing and supernatural, and absolutely worth witnessing.” This is music to feel deeply. It’s the plunge into cold water, a sunlit room, a little altar of shells, incense, minerals, and other things from the earth. Wonder, longing, healing, and closure crash in an unfathomably expansive gulf, but the places where those waves collide and eddy are the liminal spaces evoked by these musical constructions. Joey Reyes has performed at SXSW, New Media Art and Sound Summit, and Levitation Fest, and he has collaborated with Little Mazarn, Thor Harris, Future Museums, Bill Baird, Tan Cologne, and many more.
Doors: 6:00PM
Music: 7-10PM
Admission is free but there is a suggested donation of $10-$20 at the door.
Tatsuya Nakatani’s website, Instagram