Arts + Literature Laboratory has partnered with Tone Madison, Communication Madison, and Garver Events to present renowned percussionist Tatsuya Nakatani and his extraordinary Gong Orchestra project on Wednesday, November 1 at 8:00pm. Please note the location at Garver Feed Mill, 3241 Garver Green.
Tickets are $20 for the general public, or $15 for Tone Madison sustainers and Arts + Literature Laboratory members. Advance tickets can be purchased online at exploretock.com.
Nakatani has spent about 30 years tirelessly collaborating, touring, and developing his solo work in the worlds of avant-garde and improvised music. He’s developed a wholly distinctive vocabulary of techniques, textures, and harmonics. Nakatani has played solo in Madison many times over the years (including last October at Arts + Literature Laboratory) but a stop on one of his Gong Orchestra tours is truly a special occasion.
At each Gong Orchestra show, he works with a group of local players to coax subtle and powerful layers of sound from an array of gongs, using bows of Nakatani’s own making. The 2012 Taiga Records release Nakatani Gong Orchestra is an immersive document of the sonic possibilities of this project. That said, the NGO is best experienced in in-person, and here all those rumbles and ethereal harmonics will be reverberating throughout the massive space of the Garver Feed Mill Atrium.
