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Performance: Tatsuya Nakatani and Michael Potter

March 16, 2019 @ 7:00 pm - 11:00 pm

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Tatsuya Nakatani brings his amazing talents to Athens once again. On this night, he’ll be performing an improvised score to a film by David Andree, with local support from Ariel Ackerly and Michael Potter. $10 donation for Tatsuya, please!

 

 

 

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From Tatsuya Nakatani’s Website:

Tatsuya Nakatani is an avant-garde sound artist, composer, and master percussionist originally from Osaka, Japan. Based in the USA since 1994, he lives in Truth or Consequences, NM. Since the late 1990’s, Nakatani has released over 80 recordings in the USA and Europe and has toured extensively; performing solo, in collaboration with other artists, and with his large ensemble project – the Nakatani Gong Orchestra. He presents masterclasses, workshops, and lectures across the USA and around the world.

Nakatani’s approach to music is visceral, non-linear and intuitively primitive, expressing an unusually strong spirit while resisting genre. He creates sound with both traditional and extended percussion techniques. Utilizing his adapted bowed gong, drums, cymbals, singing bowls, metal objects and bells, as well as various sticks, kitchen tools, and his breath he manifests 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, metal and noise, and yet retains the sense of space and quiet beauty found in traditional Japanese folk music. His percussive instruments can imitate the sound of a trumpet, a stringed instrument, 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 percussive performance, his Nakatani Gong Orchestra (NGO), and collaborations with musicians and dancers both in live performance and recordings.

Details

Date:
March 16, 2019
Time:
7:00 pm - 11:00 pm

Organizer

ATHICA
Email
info@athica.org
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Venue

ATHICA
675 Pulaski Street, Suite 1200
Athens, GA 30601 United States
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Phone
706-850-7770 (voice mail)
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