Tatsuya Nakatani, Japanese avant garde percussionist and acoustic sound artist returns to the 1900 Building on Sunday, December 17th, 2017 at 5:30pm.
TATSUYA NAKATANI - ACOUSTIC SOUND ARTIST, MASTER PERCUSSIONIST
Tatsuya Nakatani is a Japanese avant garde percussionist and acoustic sound artist. Based in the United States, he has released over 80 recordings in the last two decades and tours extensively. Nakatani has developed his own unique instrumentation, creating new sounds and extended techniques. Utilizing gongs, drums, cymbals, singing bowls, his breath, wooden sticks, metal objects, and the idiosyncratic bows and mallets he handcrafts in his workshop; he sculpts an intense, intuitively primitive, expressive sound form that defies genre. His work engages improvised-experimental music and movement, while still retaining the traditional sense of space, depth and deep time found in Japanese art.
The Nakatani Gong Orchestra (NGO) is a mobile community engagement project he has developed and grown over the last decade. Nakatani organizes and conducts local ensembles in performances of his complex harmonic compositions on 15 bowed gongs. These works are site specific by nature, taking place in abandoned grain silos, viaducts and other unique architectural spaces as well as in traditional concert halls and galleries. Nakatani teaches master classes and workshops at universities, giving students an opportunity to share his unique approach and philosophy for creating visceral, non-linear, experiential sounds.
General Admission Ticket: $25
Senior Citizen Ticket (65+): $20
Student Ticket (Must show valid Student ID): $10
There are no assigned seats and are first come first serve. Tickets can be purchased online, over the phone, or at the door 30 minutes prior to concert.
Phone: 816-221-4488
Email: info@1900bldg.com
2017/12/17 - 2017/12/17
Additional time info:
Doors open - 5:00 pm
Concert begins - 5:30 pm
1900 Building
1900 Shawnee Mission Parkway, Mission Woods, KS 66205
Free & covered parking