Tone Madison and Arts + Literature Laboratory present internationally acclaimed Tatsuya Nakatani with Madison's own Tar Pet and Midwaste opening.
Tatsuya Nakatani + Tar Pet + Midwaste
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 concert 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... Read More
Tar Pet is the solo vocals/cello/sax project of Spires That in the Sunset Rise member Taralie Peterson. The band's record label is Hairy Spider Legs.
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