Tatsuya Nakatani (JPN/NM)
Greg Nielson (SLC)

Utah Museum Of Contemporary Art
20 s West Temple

Doors @ 7pm
suggested 10$-15$ donations

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.

Greg Nielsen
Something of a quiet legend in the Salt Lake City music scene. Perhaps most widely known for his work in the Iceburn Collective, Greg has yielded his sax in myriad projects and recordings both around Salt Lake City and the world at large. A deep listening improviser and studied artist, embracing all the worlds of jazz, metal, noise, folk and everything in between. In a rare solo performance, Neilsen presents a new works for saxophone and amplifiers.