RONDO-Archiv: Miya Masaoka Translate this page Musiker-Auswahl Archiv Klassik-Kritiken Archiv-Inhalt Kritiken der Woche Titelseite/Inhalt. Jazz-Kritiken miya masaoka. Unter eigenem Namen. http://www.rondomagazin.de/jazz/m/masaoka/masaoka.htm
RONDO-Archiv: Miya Masaoka, Monk's Japanese Folk Song Translate this page Archiv Jazz-Kritiken. miya masaoka Trio. Der Name ist japanisch, und das Instrumentist es auch miya masaoka spielt Koto, die traditionelle japanische Harfe. http://www.rondomagazin.de/jazz/m/masaoka/mm01.htm
Extractions: (53 Min., aufgenommen 7/97) Der Name ist japanisch, und das Instrument ist es auch: Miya Masaoka spielt Koto, die traditionelle japanische Harfe. Doch die junge Frau ist Amerikanerin in der dritten Generation, wenn auch japanischer Herkunft. Die Liebe der Musikerin gehört avantgardistischen Formen des Jazz. Ein Schlüsselerlebnis dafür war für sie Thelonious Monks Einspielung eines japanischen Volkslieds. Das neue deutsche Label Dizim Records hat Miya Masaoka nun die großartige Möglichkeit eröffnet, mit dem Bassisten Reggie Workman und dem Schlagzeuger Andrew Cyrille, beide legendäre Gestalten des New Jazz, eine CD mit sehr frei improvisatorischen Interpretationen Monkscher Musik einzuspielen. Es klingt mitunter verstörend, wie die Monksche Thematik auf tonales Material reduziert wird. Spröde wie der Monk-Sound ist der Klang der Koto. Ihre aussparende Linearität verleiht der Asymmetrie und verqueren Intervallbehandlung Thelonious Monks einen faszinierenden neuen Ausdruck, dessen Substanz bloße Exotik weit hinter sich läßt. Thomas Fitterling , RONDO 3/98 Alle Masaoka-Rezensionen im Überblick
Extractions: Wednesday, November 6, 2002 Previous show November Calendar Next show Advance tickets: Door opens 7:30 PM Music 8:00 PM renowned Turkish-Khazak singer's world music trio "I don't sing folk songs according to tradition, but rather as I remember them," declares avant-garde Kazakh/Turk vocalist Saadet Turkoz, who will present her mysterious improvisations based on ancient Central Asian music in collaboration with local luminati Miya Masaoka on koto and George Cremaschi on contrabass. Born in Istanbul and now residing in Zurich, Switzerland, crystalline-voiced Saadet uses experimental vocalizing to transform traditional Turkish, Anatolian, and Azerbaijan poems and songs into a lush and adventurous emotional landscape, evoking pictures and atmosphere by means of a performance that transcends boundaries both cultural and musical. Saadet has appeared all over Europe, Brazil, and America, and last year released the album Marmara Sea (Intakt). Distinguished by her Eastern sense of time and space and improvisational skills, koto (Japanese zither) virtuoso Miya Masaoka works simultaneously in the varied musical worlds of jazz, Western classical music, electronic music, traditional Japanese music and free improvisation. Her debut recording for solo koto, Compositions/Improvisations received critical acclaim in Europe and the United States, and she has performed extensively there and in Japan; both solo and with a wide variety of musicians and traditions. Miya is also the director of the San Francisco Gagaku Society, an ensemble which plays traditional Japanese court music.
Extractions: Along with only a handful of other musicians, Miya Masaoka succeeded in introducing the koto to the world of avant-garde music. Based on the West Coast in the early '90s, she first got noticed for her collaborations with Pharoah Sanders, Wadada Leo Smith, and Henry Kaiser, and for highly original mixed media installations and site-specific performances. By the late '90s, she had ... more
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Thomas Moore's New Music Links--Koto masaoka, miya miya masaoka home page; miya masaoka page at Other Minds. Mukaiyama,Tomoko page at The Ensemble Sospeso; Odamura, Satsuki page at Elision Ensemble. http://research.umbc.edu/~tmoore/nml/koto.html
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Extractions: Maassen, Jacques page at MuziekGroep Nederland (in Dutch) page at the Enciclopedia Musicale Elettronica (in Italian) Mabry, Drake Macbride, David Macchi, Egisto Macchi, Luca page at the Gaudeamus Foundation MacCombie, Bruce page at European American Music Distributors Corporation macCormac, Sylvi MacDonald, Alistair home page MacDonald, Andrew Paul Macdonald, Curtis S. D. page at the Gaudeamus Foundation page at Quattro Otmar Macha page at Musica Bona home page page at the Music Centre Slovakia (also available in Slovak page at the Gaudeamus Foundation page at The Living Composers Project page at Le Centre de Documentation de la Musique Contemporaine (in French) page at Radio France (in French) page at the Gaudeamus Foundation page at the Enciclopedia Musicale Elettronica (in Italian) discusses computer music with Iannis Xenakis, Roger Reynolds and Paul Lansky
Koto No Koto - Musicians edu. Lavin, Rick Kumamoto, JAPAN, koto_world@qmail.com. masaoka, miyaSan Francisco, California USA, miya@thecity.sfsu.edu. Matsu Take http://home.att.net/~koto/musicians.html
Extractions: Contact These musicians perform koto music as soloists or with ensembles. In some cases an organized ensemble is listed. Please contact the musicians directly to arrange concerts and obtain fee information. An ensemble performance at the Tenri Cultural Center in New York. > Name/Location E-mail Caplan, Linda
Monkish In U.S.A. Vol.3 miya masaoka Trio / Monk's Japanese Folk Song. Dizim Records 1997, 41042. miyamasaoka Koto Reggie Workman Bass, Saw Andrew Cyrille Drums, Percussion. http://www2.biglobe.ne.jp/~songbook/monk/usa03.html
Extractions: ROUND MIDNIGHT FIVE VIEWS OF MISTERIOSO IN WALKED BUD LET'S COOL ONE CREPUSCULE WITH NELLIE ... ROUND MIDNIGHT This is Fred Hersch's third CD of composers series on Nonesuch and all tracks are played by piano solo. He has already played some Monk compositions on previous albums and I've paid attention to his interpretation of Monk. To tell the truth, the performances on this one are excellent beyond my expectation. He has silent power and works out Monk's maze with it. ASK ME NOW NUTTY STRAIGHT, NO CHASER PANNONICA ... THINK OF ONE APRIL IN PARIS This is a piano solo live recording by Art Lande made on, of course, Friday the 13th in 1996. This label is independent in Denver, CO. His approach isn't only free but reasonable. So it's just opposite side of Fred Hersch's one I think. Dizim Records 1997 Miya Masaoka : Koto
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Extractions: PREVIOUS UP TOP BAY GUARDIAN goldies Miya Masaoka Global warming By Derk Richardson IN THE TWO years since she recorded her debut album, Compositions/ Improvisations (Asian Improv), Miya Masaoka has insinuated the unique sounds of her 21-string koto into an extraordinary array of musical settings. In addition to directing and performing with the San Francisco Gagaku Society, in which the zither like koto finds a natural context in ancient Japanese court music, Masaoka has performed with the Sonocentric Ensemble, pianist-composer Jon Jang, bassist and multi-instrumentalist Mark Izu, and guitarist Henry Kaiser. She was also tapped by jazz tenor saxophone giant Pharoah Sanders to join his band at Yoshi's last year; recruited into saxophonist Steve Coleman's Mystic Rhythm Society, which recorded in Paris this year and included in Cecil Taylor's Creative Music Orchestra during its extensive Bay Area rehearsal sessions. In August of this year Masaoka performed in Madison Square Garden both solo and in a symphony composed by Indian violinist L. Subramaniam and featuring Trilok Gurtu, Swapan Chaudhuri, Larry Coryell, and others. Born and raised in San Mateo, Masaoka occasionally heard traditional Japanese music at Buddhist church bazaars and funerals. She was exposed to the koto through a cousin but took up the instrument herself just nine years ago. Although she had been trained as a classical pianist, she began pursuing a musical career only after working in various political organizations, toiling on a Mack Truck assembly line in Hayward, serving as a UAW shop steward, and living in Paris for two years with her husband and daughter. After returning to the Bay Area Masaoka earned her master's degree at Mills College and immersed herself in the new/improvised music and Asian American jazz scenes, collaborating with and gleaning inspiration from Lisle Ellis, Larry Ochs, Willie Winant, Chris Brown, Alvin Curran, Jon Jang, Izu, Frances Wong, Lee Yen, and others.
Extractions: NOTES Guerrilla Mosaics is a sax-koto-percussion conversation with results as unexpected as would be expected from these players. Butcher introduces his vocabulary of multiphonics, high frequencies and unique articulations to Masaoka's koto and laser-triggered koto; Robair ranges over the course of the disc from barely audible texturing to explosive full drum-kit.
The LAB Beth Custer and miya masaoka Wednesday, February 19, 8 PM Beth Custer and miya masaokatear it up on electric clarinet and koto improvisations, delivering a http://www.thelab.org/archive03/clarinet_monster.htm
Extractions: $10-$15 sliding scale admission for all events The Clarinet Monster Series initiates BETH CUSTER's role as curator and Composer in Residence at The LAB. Beth is a founding member of the Club Foot Orchestra, Trance Mission, Eighty Mile Beach, Clarinet Thing, Dona Luz 30 Besos, and now leads the Beth Custer Ensemble. She writes music for film, television, dance, theater, museum installations, and the concert stage. Her residency is part of Meet the Composer's New Residencies program and is hosted by The LAB in collaboration with Lise Swenson's TILT and the Joe Goode Performance Group. Funding for New Residencies was provided by The Pew Charitable Trusts with additional support from the National Endowment for the Arts and other generous supporters. Beth Custer Clarinet Thing Clarinet Thing returns after a seven-year hiatus. Much hailed in the Bay Area's underground jazz scene, Clarinet Thing is a quintet of the Bay Area's finest clarinetists that play original music and arrangements of jazz classics including works by Duke Ellington, Benny Goodman, John Carter, and Bobby Bradford, as well as original compositions by its members. Don't miss this very rare performance!
The LAB Experimental electronic music center.Category Arts Music Composers Contemporary Electronic Music Beth Custer and miya masaoka Wednesday, February 19, 8 PM. Beth Custer and miyamasaoka Workshop and Improvisational Performance Friday, February 21, 8 PM. http://www.thelab.org/
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