A Different Kind Of Jazz A different kind of jazz. Koto player miya masaoka reinvents a traditional Japaneseinstrument by Robyn Israel. But San Franciscan miya masaoka did just that. http://www.paweekly.com/PAW/morgue/listings/2000_Jul_21.KOTO21.html
Extractions: Publication Date: Friday Jul 21, 2000 Koto player Miya Masaoka reinvents a traditional Japanese instrument by Robyn Israel Learning a musical instrument in your '20s is a definite challenge. Becoming sufficiently proficient to perform professionally, however, is a feat few older people accomplish. But San Franciscan Miya Masaoka did just that. It was not until college that she learned to play the koto, a 21-stringed traditional Japanese instrument. Today, she plays professionally as a solo artist, as well as in ensembles. Masaoka will perform on Saturday at the Stanford Jazz Festival, accompanied by saxophonist Aaron Stewart, pianist Vijay Iyer and tabla (south Asian drum) player Mikhal Pandya. A number of factors led to Masaoka taking up the koto. One factor was a growing Asian-American musical community in the Bay Area in the early '90s, when Masaoka was completing a bachelor's degree in music at San Francisco State University. Musicians making their mark locally at that time included pianist Jon Jang and bassist Mark Izu. "They were very active in using their Asian roots to inspire their music," Masaoka recalled.
R O V A : Upcoming Events Guitar miya masaoka koto and powerbook Larry Ochs - saxophones Joan Jeanrenaud- cello Myles Boisen - engineer and real-time sound manipulation Produced by http://www.rova.org/players/larry_maybe_monday.html
Extractions: Digital Wildlife, with Joan Jeanrenaud invited as special guest, is an improvised record but also a record about improvisation. The music was recorded direct to 2 track in the studio, with engineer Myles Boisen treating the sound as the musicians recorded it. But that was only the beginning. Later Fred Frith took the material and completely reconstructed it, using the recordings as raw material for new compositions, sometimes leaving the originals alone, sometimes rendering them almost unrecognizable. MAYBE MONDAY performs entirely improvised music. The group performed for the first time at Great American Music Hall in San Francisco in March 1997 at the suggestion of Fred Frith who at the time was in residence at Mills College, Oakland. A tour in1 1998 allowed the group to focus its musical territory; the tour went to Vancouver, Canada; Seattle, Portland, Los Angeles, Oakland,Chicago witha leter concert in San Francisco. The music was well described in this review from the 1997 Great American Music Hall concert:
SF Weekly | Sfweekly.com | Calendar : Night & Day Sound Garden. miya masaoka, Bay Area composer and master of the koto.BY SAM PRESTIANNI. Ever wonder what your liver sounds like? Find http://www.sfweekly.com/issues/2001-04-11/nightday2.html
Extractions: Momix, a troupe of dance-illusionists Miya Masaoka , Bay Area composer and master of the koto (a traditional Japanese stringed instrument), has earned an international rep in the past decade exploring the concept of music as a living, breathing entity with no limits. An extraordinary improviser who has collaborated with many of the world's creative-music leaders (from NYC pianist Cecil Taylor to Berlin bassist Peter Kowald), her performances draw from a wide range of sources, including gagaku (ancient melodies from the Japanese imperial courts), Thelonious Monk harmonies, and otherworldly timbral manipulations from her own bag of extended techniques. She also uses customized interactive electronics, complete with laser towers and computer networks, to extend the acoustic sound and polyrhythmic potential of her instrument into the cosmos. Beyond pushing her music to the max, Masaoka is keenly aware of performance as a visual art to complement the aural. For the live presentation a few years back of
SensorChip sensorChip, Home. Pamela Z. miya masaoka. Donald Swearingen. sensorChip.sensorChip is a collective of San Francisco Bay Area composer http://www.pamelaz.com/sensorchip.html
Extractions: sensorChip Home Pamela Z Miya Masaoka Donald Swearingen sensorChip sensorChip is a collective of San Francisco Bay Area composer/performers made up of Miya Masaoka (koto and electronics), Donald Swearingen (keyboard, light controllers and sampler), and Pamela Z (voice, live processing and sampler) all of whom use sensor technology and computers to generate MIDI (Musical Instrument Digital Interface) control information in performance. The members of sensorChip are three very individual artists who work both together and separately. All three artists do visually compelling performances of sonically rich material by making use of gestures and movement to generate sound Miya Masaoka works with the "Koto-Monster", an instrument she created by combining her 21 string Japanese Koto with a receiver for sensors rings she wears on her hands and a series of foot pedals to access electronics that were developed during her residency at Steim in Amsterdam. "An improviser operating at virtuoso levels of technique, imagination and expression." Henry Kaiser, EAST BAY EXPRESS
Z Program 8 Pamela Z The Qube Chix miya masaoka Donald Swearingen Sten Rudstrom Julie QueenInk Boat Leigh Evans Kinji Hayashi Shinichi Momo Koga Matthew Brubeck K. http://www.pamelaz.com/zprogram8.html
Extractions: Shinichi Momo Koga Matthew Brubeck Z Program 8 Box Office 415.621.7797 450 Florida Street (at 17th), San Francisco Z Program 8 (infinity) is a multi-artist, interdisciplinary performance extravaganza which will include electronic and electroacoustic music and performance by composer/performer Pamela Z, razor-wielding performance ensemble The Qube Chix, electro-acoustic kotoist Miya Masaoka, sound artist Donald Swearingen, and cellist Matthew Brubeck, as well as sound installation by K. Atchley , Butoh by Ink Boat, film by Jeanne Finley, performance by Sten Rudstrom and photography by John Chiara. This strange and suprising avant-variety show runs for three nights -Thursday-Saturday October 5-7, 2000. Z Program Infinity is the th in a series of such performances produced by Pamela Z since 1987. Previous installments have been: "Z Program ONE" (The LAB 1987), "Z Program II" (New Performance Gallery 1988), "Z Program 2.5" (Studio 4 1989), "Z Program 3 or 4" (The LAB 1991), "Z Program V" (Life on the Water 1992), "Z Programs Presents: DUETS" (The LAB 1996), and "Z Program 40" (The LAB 1996 on Pamela Z's 40th Birthday) and XYZ (with Amy X Neuburg and J Why at Venue 9 in 1998).
Our Clients - Improvised Communications John Butcher/miya masaoka/Gino Robair Guerrilla Mosaics Catalog 4821013 StreetDate August 20th, 2002 John Butcher soprano and tenor saxophones miya http://www.improvisedcommunications.com/client_pages/guerrilla_mosaics.html
November 2002 John Butcher / miya masaoka / Gino Robair GUERILLA MOSAICS 482 Music 4821013 SteveNorton / Tom Plsek / Gino Robair FIREHOUSE FUTURITIES Rastascan BRD 038 http://www.paristransatlantic.com/magazine/monthly2002/11nov_text.html
Extractions: Robair is also very much in action on "Firehouse Futurities", along with Steve Norton on saxophones and clarinets and trombonist Tom Plsek. Recorded back in 1995, three of the four tracks were broadcast live on WMFO, Medford MA (the album is co-produced by local label Tautology), while "She recalled his elaborate shine internal supply, consumer watchdogs agree" is, as its title might imply, a cadavre exquis - Robair recorded eighteen minutes of percussion in California, and then mailed the tape to Massachusetts, where Plsek recorded his contribution listening to Robair's music through headphones, while Norton played along with Plsek (unable to hear the pre-recorded percussion). Such a recording process guarantees linearity and organic development, but necessarily excludes the possibility of feedback (Plsek not being able to respond directly to Norton, and Robair to neither wind player). Intriguingly, the 38 minute live track which closes the album sounds surprisingly similar - American improvisers often allow themselves to stretch out more than their European counterparts - but the other two pieces, each barely two minutes in duration, are perfectly concise examples of the turn-on-a-dime reactions that makes good improvised music such a thrill.
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[one Final Note | Issue #11] John Butcher / miya masaoka / Gino Robair Guerrilla Mosaics (482 Music).review by Frank Rubolino. John Butcher is an extraordinary http://www.onefinalnote.com/issue11/reviews/guerrilla.html
Extractions: Guerrilla Mosaics ( 482 Music John Butcher is an extraordinary sound mechanic on saxophone who constructs a plethora of tonal scenarios having austere attraction to match the sheer musicality of his performance. On Guerrilla Mosaics , he teams with 21-string and laser koto player Miya Masaoka and percussionist Gino Robair for a very enticing example of artistic sound sculpturing. The trio winds its way through a dozen selections where Butcher develops increasingly advanced music while demonstrating great control of both his instrument and his body. His lengthy circular breathing exercises produce a flood of ongoing soundwaves that are then interrupted by short, at times trilled, phrases that juxtapose perfectly with the vibrations rising from his partners. Robair has been an aggressive drummer on many of his recordings, but in the context of this trio, he becomes a colorist with a palette of widely ranging hues. He uses subtle shading with his bowing techniques on metal, and establishes a séance-like ambiance with his delicate use of cymbals and other objects for mesmerizing. "Recept" is filled with ample examples of his diverse approach to percussion. He seems to blanket the atmosphere with tempered assertiveness, allowing the involved music to develop as an innate extension of the minds and spirits of the players.
Title: miya masaoka. Musician involved with LONDON MUSICIAN'S COLLECTIVE. http://metajour.50megs.com/groups/masaokam.htm
Zeum | Press Room Featured artists are Amy Denio, Ben Goldberg and Ensemble, Bart Hopkin, TheShaking Ray Levi Duo, miya masaoka, Daniel Popsicle, Rova, and Pamela Z. http://www.zeum.org/press/releases/summercal.html
Extractions: Zeum Theater Acclaimed puppeteer Basil Twist takes local teenagers on an intensive and exciting exploration of Stravinsky's classic ballet Petrushka Petrushka Symphonie Fantastique ), Twist, along with his company of nine puppeteers, explores and illuminates the process of puppetry for selected Bay Area teens during this special collaborative on-site residency. Twist will join with his puppeteers and youth artists for a public performance of this work in progress on Saturday, June 24 th at 3:00pm.
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Shakuhachi_Mail: Japanese Music Summit In San Francisco Friday Philip Flavin shamisen, voice Michael Hattori - koto Shoko Hikage - koto TamieKooyenga - koto Brett Larner - koto miya masaoka - koto Shirley Muramoto http://communication.ucsd.edu/shaku/Mail/0006.html
SFPALM -- Events Program 1 Alonzo King and miya masaoka Untitled New Dance Work Produced by AlonzoKing's LINES Contemporary Ballet Tuesday, March 12 600 pm Choreographer http://www.sfpalm.org/events/individual events/glimpse.htm
Extractions: March 12, 18, and 26, 2002 - 6:00 pm FIRST GLIMPSE is SFPALM's second annual series of conversations with the creators of notable upcoming world premieres in the Bay Area. By presenting panel discussions with the principal artistic collaborators involved in the making of a work, and where possible by previewing excerpts of a work-in-progress, Program 1 Choreographer Alonzo King and composer Miya Masaoka will discuss their new collaboration, set to premiere April 19-28, 2002 at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts. At the conversation, Masaoka will perform an excerpt from her score, and video from rehearsals of the piece will be shown. Critic Brad Rosenstein will moderate the conversation.
Extractions: See also: Sites: Albritton, Anne - Arranger, pianist, and theorist in Dallas. Andrée, Elfrida - Lived 1841 to 1929. Swedish Music Information Center page. Organist and composer. Andrews, Nicola Ellis - Cornelius Cardew Composition Prize winner. Working by herself and also collaboratively with her husband poet Phil Andrews McGovern. Beglarian, Eve - Composer and performer Eve Beglarian, whose work ranges from art music to electronic music. Bennett, Jennifer - Composer of choral music living in Kingston, Ontario. Breuer, Carolyn - Provides biography, news, events calendar, interview, and photographs of the saxophonist and composer. Burton, Canary
The Lab 2/12/2003, Clarinet Thing. 2/19/2003, Beth Custer and miya masaoka. 2/21/2003,Beth Custer and miya masaoka. 2/26/2003, Beth Custer and Fred Frith. http://www.sfgate.com/listings/venue.php?art,v339
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