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@import url(/css/mm-plus.css); This site will look much better in a browser that supports web standards , but it is accessible to any browser or Internet device. About Music Interdisciplinary Media Files ... koto , laser interfaces , field recordings, laptop and video and written scores for ensembles , chamber orchestras and mixed choirs. In her pieces she has investigated the sound and movement of insects , as well as the physiological response of plants , the human brain and her own body. Within these varied contexts her performance work investigates the interactive, collaborative aspects of sound, improvisation, nature and society.

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Miya Masaoka http://thecity.sfsu.edu/~miya Miya Masaoka is a composer/kotoist performing acoustically and with the Laser Koto In her solo performances, she uses her background in Japanese court music, new music and improvisation to create a span from 9th-century Japan to sensor and digital technology. With an array of extended techniques that include strumming, bowing, scratching, and thumps, she uses fragments of koto-created sounds to weave an organic synthesis of the acoustic and electronic. Sometimes more acoustic, sometimes moreelectronic, she developes timbre - based motives, textures and loops. Using various triggering devices in tandem with live samples, ultra sound, light sensors and digital signal processing, Masaoka captures gestures of movement and sound that cross the lines of world music, jazz, new music, and electronics. She has collaborated with some of the most noted artists of the twentieth century, including Ornette Coleman, Toshiko Akiyoshi, Pharoah Sanders, Reggie Workman, Andrew Cyrille, Steve Coleman, George Lewis, Cecil Taylor and ROVA Saxophone Quartet. Her music compositions have led her to varied forms of media and performance. In "

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MIYA MASAOKA Miya Masaoka Miya Masaoka works simultaneously in the varied musical worlds of jazz, Western classical music, electronic music, traditional Japanese music and free improvisation, and is currently the director of an ensemble of traditional Japanese court music, the San Francisco Gagaku Society. She has studied Japanese music with court musician Suenobu Togi, and holds music degrees from San Francisco State University, a Masters Degree in Composition from Mills College and certificates from the Chikushi gakko school. She has performed extensively in Japan and the US and also has toured in India and Canada; both solo and with a wide variety of musicians and traditions, including Pharoah Sanders, L. Subramaniam, The Berlin Rias Dorchester Symphony and the Berlin Opera, Rova Saxophone Quartet, Steve Coleman, Mark Izu, Francis Wong, George Lewis, Henry Kaiser, Fred Frith, Wadada Leo Smith, Rohan de Saram (Arditti String Quartet), James Newton and many others. Her Eastern sense of time and space, multiplicities of aesthetics and improvisational skills have distinguished Masaoka as a new virtuoso and innovator on the contemporary landscape.

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WORLD MUSIC Spectral Array of Asian Music E-mail this page By Heuwell Tircuit Concerts devoted to authentic performances of Asian music are not locally as common as in days of yore. So Friday’s Japanese Music Summit II in Old First Church was doubly welcome, offering the rare opportunity to hear classic works, new and old, played on original instruments by experts. The program featured six Japanese works, one Korean, one quasi-Asian piece by Canadian Brett Larner plus an ensemble improvisation by Trio Narro, expanded to a quartet for the occasion. The curious aspect of the programming lay in the fact that although devoted to traditional instruments and classical styles, all the music offered except Ichijuro Koide’s 17th Century Kurokami was of 20th Century origins. So one faced a curious paradox. It was at once an evening of the real thing, and at the same time nostalgia carried close to being parody. Kurokami, performed by the full group of eight players, opened the performance as a beautiful example of formal austerity. Partly sung, the 10-minute example reached something close to the hypnotic sphere of experience. The effect proved ravishing, largely because the ensemble and intonation were superb in the performance Spectacular performance This was followed by Yuji Takahashi’s 1994 Three Pieces for Shakuhachi

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Miya Masaoka Miya Masaoka is a performer and composer who works simultaneously in the varied musical fields of jazz, western classical music, traditional Japanese music and free improvisation. Masaoka has studied traditional Japanese Court Music (gagaku) under Imperial Court musician Mr. Suenobu Togi. She is currently the director of an ensemble of the S.F. Gagaku Society. Masaoka received a Bachelor of Arts in Music, magna cum laude, from S.F. State University and Master of Arts in Music Composition from Mills College. She has performed both solo and with a wide variety of musicians including Pharoah Sanders, L.Subramanian, the Berlin Rias Dorchester Symphony and the Berlin Opera, Rova Saxophone Quartet, Steve Coleman, Mark Izu, Francis Wong, George Lewis, Henry Kaiser, Fred Frith, Wadada Leo Smith, Rohan de Saram (Arditti String Quartet), James Newton and many others. Additional information can be found at Miya's page Miya Masaoka Interviewed by Maren Woodruff December 1, 2001 Were you always interested in music?

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Join Subscribe About JazzWest.com Celebrating the Best in Bay Area Jazz HOME CALENDAR ARTICLES REVIEWS ... Print This Article Crouching Dragon, Koto Master by Bill Minor Composer and performer Miya Masaoka This month, we're pleased to present another excerpt from jazz journalist Bill Minor 's forthcoming book, "The Heart Within: Jazz Journeys to Japan." This time, he explores the link between ancient Japanese instruments and jazz with Miya Masaoka 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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DUETS George Lewis, trombone, Miya Masaoka, Koto. CD-1023(1) Add to Shopping Cart The wildly adventurous music on this album is performed by two of the best California improvisers on the scene, and now their work can be experienced simply as a polished and imaginative performance. On the other hand, this music and its performers are situated in a particular political tradition of music-making, and this music will say more and, indeed, mean more if its social context is understood. Miya Masaoka is a composer, performer, and performance artist at the center of the Asian American new music scene in San Francisco. Trained on the Japanese koto, she has extended the instrument's possibilities not only through her base in jazz and new music but also through the innovative application of computer electronics. George Lewis is a composer, renowned trombone player, computer music specialist, and professor of improvisation and critical studies at the University of California, San Diego. Their mutual interest in the interface of technology and improvisation has consistently opened up new musical possibilities. The Usual Turmoil: 12 duets composed by the performers, George Lewis, trombone, and Miya Masaoka, koto. Total

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Miya Masaoka Composer/Performer/Sound Artist Education Masters of Art in Music Composition, Mills College, 1994. Studied composition with Alvin Curran. Received the Hellman Scholarship in Performance in 1993, Crothers Scholarship in Composition, the Faculty Scholarship and the Outstanding Musical Composition Award, 1994. Bachelor of Arts in Music, magna cum laude, San Francisco State University, 1990. Studied music analysis with Wayne Peterson, counterpoint with Eric Moe. Studied traditional Japanese Court Music under Imperial Court musician Sensei Suenobu Togi. Mr. Togi is the only teacher of Gagaku outside Japan, and traces his court musician lineage over 1200 years. Major Works Studied various schools of traditional Japanese koto music including the Chikushi Ikuta School (1984-90), as well as the Tadao Sawai School, (90-92). Bee Project #1 for violin, koto, percussion and live bee hive, Performed as part of Sound Culture at Oakland Museum, May, 96. 24,000 Years is Forever, for Improvising Orchestra and Tape, 95, commissioned by Asian Improv Arts, performed at Asian Art Museum.

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