Tatsuya Nakatani (Solo) and Broscoe Jackson Molnar Warren (together)

When: Friday, April 17
Where: Le Spot in Old Hull (Québec) (please ask for address). 
Doors: 7 pm
Music: 7.30 pm
20$ / pay what you can / no one turned away for lack of funds

Accessibility info: the venue is on the ground floor with one small step at the entrance doorway and one small step leading to the main hall. The bathroom is not wheelchair accessible. We have earplugs and water. BYOB.

Tatsuya Nakatani returns to Ottawa for a special solo show. 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.

Opening the show are David Broscoe (Saxophone), David Jackson (Guitar and Electronics), Mark Molnar (Cello), and Scott Warren (Percussion and Electronics).