Extractions: Koto: performance and recordings ... Short Bio Miya Masaoka, musician, composer, performance artist, has created works for koto , laser interfaces , laptop and video and written scores for ensembles , chamber orchestras and mixed choirs. In her performance pieces she has investigated the sound and movement of insects, as well as the physiological responses of plants, the human brain, and her own body. Within these varied contexts of sound, music and nature, her performance work emphasizes the interactive, live nature of improvisation, and reflects an individual, contemporary expression of Japanese gagaku aural gesturalism Masaoka's work has been presented in Japan, Canada, Europe, Eastern Europe and she has toured to India six times. Venues include V2 in Rotterdam, Cybertheater in Brussels, Elektronisch Festival in Groningen, the Cleveland Performance Art Festival, The Electronik Body Festival in Bratislava, Slovakia, Radio Bremen, Germany, Festival of Lights, Hyberadad, India, and the London Musicians Collective. Since forming and directing the San Francisco Gagaku Society, Masaoka has been creating new ways of thinking about and performing on the Japanese koto. She has developed a virtuosic and innovative approach, including improvisation and expanding the instrument into a virtual space using computer, lasers, live sampling, and real time processing.
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Miya Masaoka : Music : Discography Official site of musician, composer and performance artist miya masaoka. Includes information on works, as well as photos, music files and video clips. idioms, rock and electronics, miya masaoka http://www.miyamasaoka.com/music/discography
Extractions: In Compilation Compositions/Improvisations . Debut solo recording with guest flutist James Newton on one selection. Asian Improv Arts What is the Difference Between Stripping and Playing the Violin? Performed by The Masaoka Orchestra: string section, Asian instruments, jazz in various idioms, rock and electronics, Miya Masaoka, conductor. Musicians include: George Lewis (trombone), India Cooke, Carla Kihlstedt (violin), Vijay Iyer (piano), Francis Wong (saxophone), Hafez Hadirzadeh (saxophone and ney), Glen Horiuchi (shamisen), Trevor Dunn (electric bass), Mark Izu (contrabass and sheng), Liu Qi Chao (erhu), Anthony Brown (drums), Elliot Humberto Kavee (drums and cello), Thomas Day (electronics), DJ Mariko (turntables). Contains two extended works including 24,000 Years is Forever . Victo Records, Canada, 1998. Monk's Japanese Folksong . The Miya Masaoka Trio with Andrew Cyrille (drums) and Reggie Workman (contrabass and saw). Thelonious Monk compositions and some originals. Dizim Records, Germany, 1998.
Other Minds Festival 3 miya masaoka Three Sounds of Tea (1996) miya masaoka, koto Worldpremière, miya saxophone miya masaoka, conductor. Intermission-. http://www.otherminds.org/shtml/Concerts3.shtml
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Miya.html miya masaoka The Usual Turmoil interview by Declan O Driscoll.The koto is a visual wonder. 21 strings over two pieces of wood http://www.btinternet.com/~rubberneck/miya.html
Extractions: Miya Masaoka: The Usual Turmoil - interview by Declan O'Driscoll The koto is a visual wonder. 21 strings over two pieces of wood (shaped like a coffin); bridge like a human spine. It has presence. When it is played by Miya Masaoka (born 1958) sound and movement combine as she reaches across its length, scrapes a string, strokes its underside with a ball or bows it. A choreography that is her thought process, each sound a careful decision, each action a thought. The possibilities, already vast, are extended further by the technology created for her at STEIM in Amsterdam. Just played notes return, percussive effects created on the hollow body of the koto are sampled to build a dark, rumbling layer. A committed political activist and resident of San Francisco, Masaoka began studying koto in her twenties, having already spent four years working in a Mack Trucks assembly plant where, apart from working on the line, she was a shop steward. After receiving a degree in music at Mills College (among her tutors were Willie Winant, Alvin Curran and David Tudor) she worked for two years as artistic director of a music workshop for homeless people. Through meetings with Henry Kaiser, Lisle Ellis and Larry Ochs she began to find her way into the San Francisco improvising community and eventually became recognised there, and beyond, as a player of great imaginative depth, with an explorer's urge to push towards new territory that would lead to her playing with, among others, Mark Dresser, Ikue Mori, Susie Ibarra, Cecil Taylor, George Lewis, Pharoah Sanders, John Zorn and Jon Rose.
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Butcher / Masaoka / Robair masaoka / Robair John Butcher, miya masaoka and Gino Robair have separately spentcareers as innovators in composition, improvisation and performance. http://www.482music.com/artists/butcher-masaoka-robair.html
Extractions: John Butcher, Miya Masaoka and Gino Robair have separately spent careers as innovators in composition, improvisation and performance. Though each of the others has worked separately with Robair, Guerrilla Mosaics records their first meeting as a trio. John Butcher lives in London and has played the saxophone for about 25 years. By the early 80s he had developed an individual voice, while also completing a physics doctorate on the theoretical properties of charmed quarks. His music now ranges through free improvisation, composition, multitracked pieces, work with pre-recorded tape, and also with live electronics. His solo work was featured in the BBC TV series"Date with an Artist". Groups he has played with include Derek Bailey's Company, John Stevens' Spontaneous Music Ensemble, Chris Burn's Ensemble, Butch Morris' London Skyscraper, Polwecshel, EX Orkestra. Duos include concerts with Gerry Hemingway, Fred Frith, Phil Minton, Derek Bailey. Gino Robair is a percussionist, music journalist, and published composer living in the San Francisco Bay Area. Gino frequently tours North America and Europe as a soloist and often improvises in ad-hoc groups. He has performed and recorded with Anthony Braxton, John Butcher, Otomo Yoshihide, Tom Waits, Eugene Chadbourne, John Zorn, Nina Hagen, Thinking Fellers Union Local 282, ROVA Saxophone Quartet, and he is a founding member of the Splatter Trio. Gino has studied percussion with Ron George, AMM percussionist Eddie Prevost, William Kraft, and William Winant; studied composition with Barney Childs, Lou Harrison, David Rosenboom, and Larry Polansky; and has earned two masters degreesElectronic Music and Compositionfrom Mills College.
Extractions: Links San Francisco-based composer Miya Masaoka (Washington, 1958), a student of Alvin Curran, Chris Brown and David Tudor, straddles the border between jazz, classical, electronic, computer and Japanese music. Compositions/Improvisations (Air, 1993) for solo koto and a series of distinguished collaborations, such as Trio (Ratascan, 1996) with Robair and Dunn, and The Seance (1996) with DeGruttola and Kaiser, established her in the world of free improvisers, while emphasizing the Japanese concepts of "jo ha kyu" (prelude, intermezzo and allegro), "ma" (the space in between notes) and "kobushi" (the sound between two notes that the ear cannot recognize but can nonetheless "hear"). But she soon became more and more active in the electroacoustic, interactive and multimedia scene. For example, What is the Difference Between Stripping and Playing the Violin? was performed live in a San Francisco plaza in 1997 by twelve musicians and two erotic dancers. She has also composed 24,000 Years Is Forever
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Extractions: Few things make a bigger statement in Japanese culture than a Kimono. Not only worn as an article of clothing, but to tell a story. Points of Interest Japan Shopping Guide Japan Photo Albums Recommended Reading Japan search for your website ... Free promotion / Paid advertising Miya Masaoka (born 1958) is a musician and composer who performs on the Japanese zither-like instrument the koto, often augmenting it with string preparations and electronic triggers (as in her "Koto Monster", where additional laser beam "strings" hover over the koto). She is known for creative, improvisational technique, and a sensibility that combines experimental Western approaches with the tradition of the koto.
Spotlight Magazine April/May 2004 miya masaoka. The strings are plucked with ivory plectra (tsume)of varying shape. miya masaoka performs on the 17, 21 and 25 string koto. http://www.umass.edu/fac/spotlight/3.30.html
Extractions: M Miya Masaoka, musician, composer and performance artist has created works for koto in the traditional and not so traditional form. The koto is a Japanese instrument with moveable frets in the long zither family of Asian instruments. Its evolution reflects the continuum of change through the epochs of Japanese history, and includes ritual, sacred and secular folk and court forms. The full name, kami no nori koto, means literally, "Oracle of the gods" and was used in Shinto practices that continue in modern Japan. It is made of the rather soft kiri wood, and is over six feet long. The length of the vibrating part of the strings is determined by the placement of the moveable bridges (ji), each string having one bridge. Different placement of the ji produce different tunings. There are some 200 scales in Japanese music. The strings are plucked with ivory plectra (tsume) of varying shape. Miya Masaoka performs on the 17, 21 and 25 string koto. Her 25 string koto was made for her by Takashi Nakaji, and she is one of the few performers on this instrument.
Extractions: Barre Phillips (Bass); Miya Masaoka (Koto); Jon Rose (violin) english It is almost unbelievable: in spite of being invited to the samefestivals and/or two of them playing together in all kind of formationsthese three important figures of improvisational music so far never before had a chance to playtogether as a trio. The audiences on site in Vienna, on line, and inVancouver as well as the musicians there are experiencing a true"First"... Burle Avant adds his visual mix to this special event, using alsolive on line images from Vancouver. BACK
HCA: Miya Masaoka In Performance miya masaoka in Performance Thursday, May 18, 8 pm. Musician andspring Artist in Residence miya masaoka will captivate audience http://www.headlands.org/Programs/20000518.shtml
Extractions: Thursday, May 18, 8 pm Musician and spring Artist in Residence Miya Masaoka will captivate audience members with a presentation of old and in-progress work developed during her residency in the Headlands. A composer, virtuoso instrumentalist and audio performance artist, Masaoka mingles contemporary methods and technologies with Eastern tradition, blending the music of the Japanese koto with digital sampling, improvisation, performance and video. In this one-night-only appearance at HCA, Masaoka will capture and integrate the amplified sounds of the human body with the hypnotic rhythms of her koto and electro-acoustic live sampling. Building on a work-in-progress, and surrounded by more than 10,000 acres of coastal Headlands wilderness as source material during her residency, Masaoka will take audience members on an experimental journey, testing new ideas and blurring traditional boundaries of culture, gender and artistic discipline. For five years, Masaoka has been creating compositions, videos and performance art pieces while investigating, among other things, the sound, behavior and social organization of insects. She has performed throughout the U.S. and abroad and is a recognized innovator in the contemporary music world. Home About HCA Public Programs Support HCA ... Map + Directions Headlands Center for the Arts, 944 Fort Barry, Sausalito, CA 94965
JazzWest: Composer And Performer Miya Masaoka JazzWest Profile. miya masaoka, Koto Master by Bill Minor. Composerand performer miya masaoka. This month, we re pleased to present http://www.jazzwest.com/archive/articles/masaoka.html
Extractions: The koto a thirteen-string instrument with a body made from two pieces of paulownia wood, originally intended to imitate the shape of a crouching dragon is mentioned on fifteen different occasions in Japan's first novel (and perhaps the world's), "The Tale of Genji," written in the eleventh century. In the epic "Tale of the Heike," a warrior finds the emperor's lost paramour by way of the unique voice of her koto playing. How then, nineteen centuries later, does a Japanese-American woman born in Washington D.C. discover and eventually master this ancient instrument, expanding its traditional capabilities to include New Music and jazz?
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Extractions: World History (home) Encyclopedia Index Localities Companies Surnames ... This Week in History Miya Masaoka (born ) is a musician and composer who performs on the Japanese zither-like instrument the koto , often augmenting it with string preperations and electronic triggers (as in her "Koto Monster", where additional laser beam "strings" hover over the koto). She is known for creative, improvisational technique, and a sensibility that combines experimental Western approaches with the tradition of the koto. Her compositions have included works for large ensembles sometimes with unusual sound sources such as hives of bees, or the amplified sounds of human bodies (brain waves, heart beat, etc). One notable piece was performed outdoors in a plaza on San Francisco 's sometimes unsavory Market Street, utilizing an ensemble of dozens of musicians, a pair of male and female exotic dancers, and taped interviews with sex workers: "What's the Difference Between Stripping and Playing the Violin?" An impressive blend of musical composition, and site-specific conceptual art.
Jazz News: 482 Music Releases Debut From Butcher/Masaoka/Robair of Guerrilla Mosaics(4821013), the first and only collaboration of saxophonistJohn Butcher, acoustic/laser koto player miya masaoka, and percussionist Gino http://www.allaboutjazz.com/php/news.php?id=1625
