This Weekend in Nashville

After an awsome evening with Tatsuya Nakatani and Michelle Doneda, VKMusic is proud to recommend some more great performances and happenings this week.


This Friday May 10th

Skitter Flutter - Robbie Hunsinger, Patrick Becker, and Steve Ghertner's interactive sound exhibit
6pm at Seed Space (427 Chestnut Ave)
Secret Keepers with Mary Halvorson (gtr) and Stephen Crump (upright bass)
part of Zeitgeist's interactive Indeterminacies series
7pm at Zeitgeist Gallery (just down the road at 516 Hagan Street, ste 100)
Free and Open to the Public
More info on Rodger Coleman's NuVoid blog - Facebook Event


Saturday, May 11th

Matthew Shipp Trio with Special guests Lambchop
Matthew Shipp - Piano
Michael Bisio - Bass
Whit Dickey - Drums
at VFW Post 1970 (map)
Show starts at 8pm.  Admission $15.
More Info - Facebook Event

Noa Noa Experimental Music Series
Theme of the night:  Defacing Purity
Each act will begin with something pure and gradually degrade, deface, or destroy it.
featuring:
Adan De La Garza: http://adandelagarza.com/
Morgan Higby-Flowers: http://morganhigbyflowers.com/
Pimpdaddysupreme: http://www.pimpdaddysupreme.com/
+ 1 additional act!
This takes place @ Noa Noa (a house)
620 Hamilton Avenue
Nashville, TN 37203
Starts at 8:30pm (donations will be requested)
More information on the Theatre Intangible blog - Facebook Event

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Nakatani (dr) - Doneda (sax) with Brady Sharp (gtr)

VKMusic Proudly Presents...




Tues, May 7th @ 7:30pm
Tatsuya Nakatani (Percussion - Kobe, Japan)
Michel Doneda (Sorano Sax / Sopranino - Brive, France)
with
Brady Sharp (gtr)

This will take place at Chestnut Studios (427 Chestnut St)
(Thru the main entrance, ground floor, all the way to the back)
Doors @ 7:30pm. 
$6-$10 donation requested



MICHEL DONEDA (Soprano saxophone, Sopranino)
M. Doneda soprano saxophone, comes from the French South west. He is a self-taught musician.
IN 1980 he formed in Toulouse a wind trio: HIC ET NUNC a group that toured quite a lot in France, playing mostly improvised music. At the same time with musicians, dancers, actors, he formed a place called IREA (Institute of exchanges between arts of improvisation). In the years following, participating in music projects with others groups and he became a regular guest in Chantenay-Villedieu festival where he developed a very personal way with his music and his instrument in improvised music. During this period he played with Europeans musicians: Fred Van Hove, Phil Wachsmann, Max Eastley, Steve Beresford…and Americans: John Zorn, Eliott Sharp,Elvin Jones…In 1985 he made his first record under his own name: TERRA (nato record). A the same time he started to play regularly with: Le Quan Ninh, Daunik Lazro, Benat Achiary, Martine Altenburger, Barre Phillips, Paul Rogers, Tetsu Saïtoh, Kazue Sawai.
The last years developing his work in Europe with Keith Rowe, Gunter Muller, Giuseppe Ielasi, Axel Dörner, Alessandro Bosetti, Ingar Zack, Xavier Charles, In North America with Jack Wright, Bhob Rainey, Tatsuya Nakatani, Ricardo Arias, In South America with Leonel Kaplan, Diego Chamy, Gabriel Pauk, In Japan with Imai Kazuo, Yamauti Katsura and always Saïtoh and Sawai.
He works with dancers as Masaki Iwana, Yukiko Nakamura, Valerie Métivier, Andrea Fernandez and poets, actors.
Since then, he has been very involved in the international improvised music scene, toured in North and South America, Africa, Japan, Asia, Canada, Russia and Australia as well with a lot of improvisers in Europe.

Link on the web site of Sheffield university:
http://www.efi.group.shef.ac.uk/

Discographie:
http://www.discogs.com/artist/Michel+Doneda

TATSUYA NAKATANI (Percussion)
Tatsuya Nakatani is a creative percussionist originally from Osaka, Japan.
He has been residing in the USA since 1994 and is currently based in Easton, PA.Since the late 1990s, Mr. Nakatani has released over sixty recordings in the USA and Europe and has performed countless solo percussion concerts through intensive touring. He has also collaborated with hundreds of other artists internationally and presented masterclasses, workshops and lectures across the USA and around the world.

Nakatani's approach to music is visceral, non-linear and intuitively primitive, expressing an unusually strong spirit while avoiding any categorization. He creates sound via both traditional and extended percussion techniques, utilizing drums, bowed gongs, cymbals, singing bowls, metal objects and bells, as well as various sticks, kitchen tools and homemade bows, all of which manifest in anintense and organic music that represents a very personal sonic world. His approach is steeped in the sensibilities of free improvisation, experimental music, jazz, rock, and noise, and yet retains the sense of space and quiet beauty found in traditional Japanese folk music. His percussion instruments can imitate the sounds of a trumpet, a stringed instrumentor an electronic device to the extent that it becomes difficult to recognize the source of the sound. He has devoted himself to a musical aesthetic where rhythm gives way to pulse, often in a way that is not always audible or visible, in currents that incorporate silence and texture.Nakatani’s primary music activities include
solo percussion performance, N.G.O. (Nakatani Gong Orchestra) and collaborations with musicians and dancers both in live performance and recordings.

Tatsuya Nakatani has spent the past several years traveling and performing extensively throughout the United States and beyond. His constant touring fosters the raw and fresh quality in his music, which can only survive through an open willingness to share energy, culture, music and self on a global human scale. He has toured and performed in Japan, China, Canada, Mexico, France, Germany, England, Scotland, Belgium, Netherlands, Portugal, Poland,Ukraine, Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Argentina, Chile, Israel and across the USA, coast to coast. While touring, he also conducts master classes and workshops at schools and universities, emphasizing his unique musical approach and philosophy.
Tatsuya collaborates and performs with a wide range of artists, from internationally renowned musicians to students of all ages, occupations and musical skill levels.

Nakatani has performed in all sorts of venues worldwide, from international musicfestivals to local community centers, artist lofts to university concert halls, including a recent performance at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C. He values and appreciatesgrass-roots organized shows set up and promoted by local musicians and promoters in all types of settings - independent artist organizations, clubs and bars, private lofts, squat houses, coffee shops and even packed houseshows run by enthusiastic college kids.
Nakatani also works as a sound designer for film and television and heads his own H&H Production, an independent record label and recording studio based in Easton, Pennsylvania.
He was selected as a performing artist for the Pennsylvania Performing Artist on Tour (PennPat) roster and was also awarded a Bronx Arts Council Individual Artist grant.

Website: http://www.hhproduction.org/TATSUYA_NAKATANI_WORKS.html

Brady Sharp discovered improvised music in the mid-90s and with Andrew Mays, Matt Hamilton, and Drew Rydberg, formed Voight-Kampff Music. He has continued to put on improvised music shows in the Nashville area, and has had the fortune of playing with the reputable likes of Peter Kowald, Chris Cutler, LaDonna Smith, Gino Robair, Susan Alcorn, Tatsuya Nakatani and many others.  Brady plays periodically with Dave Maddox (reeds) in the Bluff Duo, in other one-off ensembles, and as a solo artist.

http://www.bluffduo.com

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