Koto @ California Institute of the Arts
Demonstrating and Introducing the koto music and other music in Japan at California Institute of the Arts as a guest artist.
Koto @ Battery Books with Chris Williams
Tin/Bag
Kris Tiner - trumpet
Mike Baggetta - guitar
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Chris Williams - trumpet
Kozue Matsumoto - koto
Miller Wrenn - bass
Alex Cline - drums
Koto Lecture @ Japan Studies Institute
Japanese Classical Music and Aesthetics: Lecture and Performance
Music Release!
Caspar Sonnet and I are releasing the duo music fro Sounds et al! Please check the music at:
http://www.soundsetal.com/project/sonnet-matsumoto-versus/
Koto with Karlton Hester @ Santa Cruz
Global-African dance, spoken word, winds, strings, percussion, turntable, beat box, and digital artwork. Hesterian Musicism is the creative process through which Professor Karlton Hester’s compositional and performance style merge to give rise to aesthetic environments where other musicians, kinetic and visual artists, and poets can meet to produce new art forms through imaginative effort.
http://arts.ucsc.edu/news_events/quantum-elders-hip-bop-ballet
Koto @ Chris Ryan Williams & Laura Sofía Pérez
An evening of live music and video projections by Chris Ryan Williams and Laura Sofía Pérez.
Musical performers will include Chris Ryan Williams (trumpet/compositions), Kozue Matsumoto (koto), and Davy Sumner (synthesizer). Laura Sofía Pérez will provide the video projections. The performance will explore themes of the Black experience in 1970’s Los Angeles and the ephemerality of Black agency.
https://clockshop.org/event/mac-crw-lsp/
Hana Hibiki Duo @ Pomona College
Koto and shakuhachi duo concert with Rachel Rudich
https://www.facebook.com/events/292812024723161/
Koto @ Lucas Artists Residency at Montalvo Arts Center
Joining Motoko Honda to work on a creative project among artists from the Miyagi Prefecture in Tohoku, Japan
Koto with Carmina Escobar and Ogri
Performative installation of voice, butoh, and koto at the Bowtie sponsored by Clockshop in relation to Rafa Esparza work
https://clockshop.org/event/endless-life-performances/
Matsumoto I Escobar I Castillo
Kozue Matsumoto - Koto & electronics
Carmina Escobar - Voice, objects, electronics
Jesús Castillo - Voice, poetry
A mélange a trois of dark to luminous sounds and words.
Cocktails 7:30 p.m.
Music 8:00 - 9:00 p.m.
Posters by Mark Allen.
There will be a few of them to take away
Eric Heep // Davy Sumner // Ben Finley
“Scale Invariance”, a new piece by Ben Finley, explores the same thing at different scales - as if listening from a plane window and with both feet on the ground simultaneously. With Kozue Matsumoto, koto; Kathryn Shuman, voice; Tim Tsang, piano; Nick Hon, drums; Davy Sumner, synths; and Ben Finley, bass.