In the Icebox Project Space, a huge concrete project space on American Street in North Philadelphia, 14 local musicians and artists are stationed around gongs of different sizes. At a Monday evening ...

At the concert, visiting artist Tatsuya Nakatani will direct students in a performance of his 16-piece gong orchestra. His distinctive music is centered around his adapted bowed gong, supported by ...

The Nakatani Gong Orchestra doesn't sound like that. Since Tatsuya Nakatani makes most of the instruments by hand, the sound that's created is truly one of a kind.

Of the three tracks on the Nakatani Gong Orchestra’s 2012 CD, only one of them offers actual music from the ensemble. True, the middle, performance-centered inclusion is the longest by far, a 38 ...

Featured acts include a gong orchestra, a duo who incorporates a toy piano into their sound-making and the creator of the podcast Song Exploder. Here are the events at this year's Witching Hour ...

He joins fellow gong masters Jeff Sussman, Al Faaet, and Mitch Nur for a concert by the Secret Gong Orchestra at 8 p.m. on Saturday, July 8, at Club Paradiso (903 Early St.), a private performance ...

Tatsuya Nakatani and the Nakatani Gong Orchestra prepare for a December 2023 performance produced by Iván-Daniel Espinosa, a City of Boulder grant recipient. Courtesy: Iván-Daniel Espinosa A 10-foot ...

Send a News Tip Adjust text size Nakatani Gong Orchestra Japanese avant-garde percussionist Tatsuya Nakatani is redefining the term “neverending tour” in starkly DIY terms.

Iowa City architect Brian Gotwals is probably more comfortable playing drums, a banjo or washtub bass than he is playing a Chinese gong. Yet, he will be among 14 or so local musicians recruited to ...

To bow a gong, and tune in to the layered vibrations that emerge, can be a very intuitive thing. And that’s what local volunteers for the Nakatani Gong Orchestra are finding.

Afterwards, Nakatani will also conduct his 17-piece NAKATANI GONG ORCHESTRA, featuring several student performers from the CU College of Music and CU Theatre & Dance. Tatsuya Nakatani is renowned in ...