1. Miya Masaoka - Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia Wikipedia article involving her works, performances, and teaching. Includes internal references to related people and topics and links. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miya_Masaoka

Miya Masaoka From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation search Miya Masaoka (b. Washington, D.C. ) is an American musician and composer who performs on the 17-string Japanese koto zither, often augmenting it with string preparations and electronic triggers (as in her "Koto Monster", where additional laser beam "strings" hover over the koto). She is known for creative, improvisational technique, and a sensibility that combines experimental Western approaches with the tradition of the koto. Her compositions have included works for large ensembles, sometimes with unusual sound sources such as hives of bees, or the amplified sounds of human bodies (brain waves, heartbeat, etc). One notable piece was performed outdoors in a plaza on San Francisco 's sometimes unsavory Market Street, utilizing an ensemble of dozens of musicians, a pair of male and female exotic dancers, and taped interviews with sex workers: "What's the Difference Between Stripping and Playing the Violin?" An impressive blend of musical composition, and site-specific conceptual art. She has also done performance art utilizing insects ( Madagascar hissing cockroaches , bees) crawling across her body (references to the Yoko Ono film Fly Miya Masaoka is known as one of the more distinctive members of the Bay Area Improv Scene (sometimes also called the Creative/New Music scene) in the San Francisco area.

2. Networked Music Review — Interview: Miya Masaoka Miya Masaoka is a musician, composer and performance artist. She has created works for koto, laser interfaces, laptop and video and written scores for http://transition.turbulence.org/networked_music_review/2007/05/21/interview-miy

Interview: Miya Masaoka Tags: networked music wearable sound ... Miya Masaoka is a musician, composer and performance artist. She has created works for koto, laser interfaces, laptop and video and written scores for ensembles, chamber orchestras and mixed choirs. In her performance pieces she has investigated the sound and movement of insects, as well as the physiological responses of plants, the human brain, and her own body. Helen Thorington : Miya, you were trained in Japanese court music as well as contemporary music and I understand have expanded on the playing techniques of the koto – first by using extended techniques, but more importantly, by building a Laser Koto. For those who don’t know, can you tell us about the koto and how you developed it? What is the Laser Koto and how does it work? Miya Masaoka : Sometimes various events, thoughts and inspiration converge in particular ways, and evolve over a period of time, I would say this was the case for the Laser Koto. For many years I had been trying to develop ways of extending the koto electronically –and continue to do so— and along these lines I was an aritist in residence at STEIM in Amsterdam and worked with Matt Wright at CNMAT to develop ways of building an interface for real time processing and sampling using gestural controllers and other ways of capturing and modifying sound. We recorded and mapped 900 koto samples that could be accessed in various ways.

3. Augusta Savage Gallery -Miya Masaoka Miya Masaoka, musician, composer, performance artist, has created works for koto, laser interfaces, laptop and video and written scores for ensembles, http://www.umass.edu/fac/calendar/augusta/events/MiyaMasaoka.html

Home Augusta Savage Gallery Calendar Miya Masaoka Augusta Savage Gallery Home Miya Masaoka Wednesday, April 14 Miya Masaoka, musician, composer, performance artist, has created works for koto, laser interfaces, laptop and video and written scores for ensembles, chamber orchestras and mixed choirs. In her performance pieces she has investigated the sound and movement of insects, as well as the physiological responses of plants, the human brain, and her own body. Within these varied contexts of sound, music and nature, her performance work emphasizes the interactive, live nature of improvisation, and reflects an individual, contemporary expression of Japanese gagaku aural gesturalism. Masaoka's work has been presented in Japan, Canada, Europe, Eastern Europe and she has toured to India six times. Venues include V2 in Rotterdam, Cybertheater in Brussels, Elektronisch Festival in Groningen, the Cleveland Performance Art Festival, The Electronik Body Festival in Bratislava, Slovakia, Radio Bremen, Germany, Festival of Lights, Hyberadad, India, and the London Musicians Collective. Since forming and directing the San Francisco Gagaku Society, Masaoka has been creating new ways of thinking about and performing on the Japanese koto. She has developed a virtuosic and innovative approach, including improvisation and expanding the instrument into a virtual space using computer, lasers, live sampling, and real time processing.

4. Miya Masaoka - Wikipedia Translate this page NAME, Masaoka, Miya. KURZBESCHREIBUNG, US-amerikanische Kotospielerin, avantgardistische Musikerin und Komponistin. GEBURTSDATUM, 1958 http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miya_Masaoka

Miya Masaoka aus Wikipedia, der freien Enzyklop¤die Wechseln zu: Navigation Suche Miya Masaoka in Washington D.C. ) ist eine US-amerikanische Koto -Spielerin, avantgardistische Musikerin und Komponistin. Masaoka erhielt eine Ausbildung in japanischer Musik bei Suenobu Togi und studierte dann an der San Francisco State University (bis 1990) und am Mills College (bis 1991) bei Alvin Curran . Anfang der 1990er Jahre arbeitete sie mit Pharoah Sanders Wadada Leo Smith und Henry Kaiser zusammen. Sie wurde vor allem mit multimedialen B¼hnenprojekten bekannt. 1996 entstand das Bee Project #1 , bei dem Bienensummen und Livemusik gemischt wurden. GroŸe mediale Aufmerksamkeit fand , eine Vorf¼hrung f¼r Band, zwei exotische T¤nzer und Tonband, die 1997 an einer StraŸenecke in San Francisco aufgef¼hrt (und aufgezeichnet) wurde. Seit ver¶ffentlichte sie eigene Alben, daneben arbeitete sie mit Musikern wie Steve Coleman George Lewis und Ben Goldberg , seit 1997 arbeitet sie mit Fred Frith und Larry Ochs im Trio Maybe Monday . Sie ist Gr¼nderin und Leiterin der San Francisco Gagaku Society Masaoka kompoinierte ein Ballett , ein St¼ck zum zehnj¤hrigen Jubil¤um des Buena Center for the Arts f¼r Chor, Kinderchor und Solisten, St¼cke f¼r Kammerorchester

5. Bagger: Miya Masaoka Miya Masaoka s work with skin and insects and video uses image and metaphor to explore human and insect societal issues of race, herding, gender and sites http://bagger-ce.blogspot.com/2007/07/miya-masaoka.html

skip to main skip to sidebar bagger de kunsten vanaf polderniveau ( sludge, the nutritive sediment of the society ) dinsdag 17 juli 2007 Miya Masaoka Documentary Teaser 2: Miya Masaoka (04:36) Insects and the Body Miya Masaoka's work with skin and insects and video uses image and metaphor to explore human and insect societal issues of race, herding, gender and sites of control and explores empathy and the interconnectedness of inter-species interactions. She has performed with live Madagascar Hissing Cockroaches and thousands of honeybees on stage, using their sound and movement as a sound source within sound and video compositions. Geplaatst door CE op Labels: artist bioart video reacties: Een reactie plaatsen Nieuwer bericht Ouder bericht Startpagina Abonneren op: Reacties plaatsen (Atom) var sc_project=2405296; var sc_invisible=0; var sc_partition=22; var sc_security="db907a10"; koele kunstblogs >bezembinder >chmkoome >ctrlaltdelete >goddelijkegladiolen ... SUPER LA TIEF Noordkaap presenteert: Super La Tief. Vechtsport, bier drinken, carpimpen, de straat, sportschool en genretelevisie. Met het WooverCorso, het Gala Sterkste Kunstenaar van Nederland, Arno's Eurotrash winkel en bruikbare workshops in de Voorstraat Noord. Deelnemende kunstenaars o.a. Federico D'Orazio, Arno Coenen, Olaf Mooi, Rufus, Piek en Dan Dryer. Gastcurator Hans van den Ban Super La Tief wordt mede mogelijk gemaakt door de Mondriaan Stichting. 31 mei 2008 - 28 jul 2008 sites privacyproject google translate kunstsubsidiedebat - over het Fonds BKVB The Saatchi Gallery ... vernissage.tv

6. WORLD MUSIC REVIEW: Spectral Array Of Asian Music By Heuwell Tircuit (Japanese M Certainly the most curious event was masaoka miya s The Transliterated Koto (excerpt) 2002 . Miya‘s notes describe a procedure heavily into the use of http://www.sfcv.org/arts_revs/japanesesummit_1_14_03.php

SFCV Store RSS Contact Donate ... About SFCV WORLD MUSIC REVIEW Spectral Array of Asian Music January 10, 2003 E-mail this page By Heuwell Tircuit Concerts devoted to authentic performances of Asian music are not locally as common as in days of yore. So Friday's Japanese Music Summit II in Old First Church was doubly welcome, offering the rare opportunity to hear classic works, new and old, played on original instruments by experts. The program featured six Japanese works, one Korean, one quasi-Asian piece by Canadian Brett Larner plus an ensemble improvisation by Trio Narro, expanded to a quartet for the occasion. The curious aspect of the programming lay in the fact that although devoted to traditional instruments and classical styles, all the music offered except Ichijuro Koide's 17th Century Kurokami was of 20th Century origins. So one faced a curious paradox. It was at once an evening of the real thing, and at the same time nostalgia carried close to being parody. Kurokami, performed by the full group of eight players, opened the performance as a beautiful example of formal austerity. Partly sung, the 10-minute example reached something close to the hypnotic sphere of experience. The effect proved ravishing, largely because the ensemble and intonation were superb in the performance Spectacular performance This was followed by Yuji Takahashi's 1994 Three Pieces for Shakuhachi

7. MoreMoment'sNotice masaoka miya Masaoka’s For Birds, Planes Cello mixes field recordings and Joan Jeanrenaud’s cello to create an hourlong, thought-provoking soundscape. http://pointofdeparture.org/archives/PoD-3/PoD-3_MoreMomentsNotice.html

Moment's Notice Recent CDs Briefly Reviewed (continued) Miya Masaoka + Joan Jeanrenaud Solitary B What Is The Difference Between Stripping And Playing The Violin? is surprisingly non-polemic, and perhaps wondrous because of it. Waltz Again Justin Time JUST 193-2 Waltz Again Face It! Leo CD LR 450 Quartet Noir Lugano Victo CD 096 Steve Lacy Leaves Blossoms Steve Reich You Are (Variations) Nonesuch 79891-2 Music for 18 Musicians (1978; ECM). Reich realized early on that the rhythmic effervescence resulting from this approach provides a sly, effective conveyance to the trance state that is part and parcel of the minimalist aesthetic. His application of this approach and the overlay of his ever-deepening Judaism through texts on the four-part title piece makes You Are (Variations) Giacinto Scelsi Incantations: The Art of Song of Giancinto Scelsi New Albion NA129 Incantations Jaleel Shaw Perspective Fresh Sound/New Talent FSNT 222 Perspective does more than introduce an alto saxophonist and composer whose talents and promise are obvious. It provides another vantage into the Philly scene that yielded Blue Note-anointed pianist Robert Glasper, which remains one of the vital jazz communities in the US. Post-war Philadelphia was a hothouse for jazz talent because of its strong community fabric; the case in point being the young John Coltrane and Jimmy Heath, kids in the same neighborhood whose talents were nurtured by parents, teachers and friends. That fabric remains intact, as evidenced by the contemporaneous ascent of Shaw and drummer Johnathan Blake (son of violinist John Blake), who have been playing together since they were 12. Shaw was in high school when he first heard Glasper, who he then befriended before the inevitable move to New York. On

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10. Index Of Piero Scaruffi's History Of Jazz Music masaoka miya 20 Mays Lyle 18 McBee Cecil 16.4 McFerrin Bobby 16.7 McGregor Chris 16.6 McIntyre Maurice 16.1 McLaughlin John 17.5 McLean Jackie 13 http://www.scaruffi.com/history/jazzind.html

Alphabetical Index of Piero Scaruffi's History of Jazz Music 1900-2000 A complete alphabetical index would have been too long and costly to produce. This index is a compromise between providing help to locate a musician and saving space/money. Each musician is located via the number of the chapter. See below the numbered list of chapters. For each musician only one entry is given: the place where the main recordings are discussed. This index does not list all the pages in which a musician is mentioned, only the place where a musician's work is analyzed. The names listed in this index are the musicians that are underlined in the text. If you want to find out all the places where a certain musician is mentioned, you can go to www.scaruffi.com and use the search engine. Chapters The beginnings: New Orleans Chicago: White Jazz New York: Stride piano New York: Big Bands ... Jazz traditionalism Jazz traditionalism The Death of Jazz Non-jazz of the 1980s Post-jazz music Groups and musicians Abercrombie John 17.5 Abrams Richard 16.1 Adams George 16.4

11. P H A R O A H S A N D E R S - Musicians masaoka miya koto 1994, 1997 Mathews Myrna voc - 1977 Maxwell Omar dr - 1990 Mboup Abdou talking dr, kora, djembe, voice - 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2003 http://www.angelfire.com/id2/laotan/musicians.html

an artist official discography as a leader official discography as a sideman sessions ... contact us Musicians who participated in Pharoah Sanders official and unofficial recordings in the particular years A B C D ... Z A Abdelhadi Bouchaib Moroccan vln, oud, perc, voc - 1995 Abdellaoui Abdellatif krkaba, voc, handclaps - 1994 Abdellaoui Mohamed krkaba, voc, handclaps - 1994 Abdullah Ahmed as, EVI, voc - 1993, 1995 Abebayehu Mikias dr, congas - 2001, 2003 Adams Fred tp - 1993, 1995 Adams George ts, voc - 1980 Addabachi Maleem Abdelkabir ghaita - 1994 Adenew Abonesh voc - 2001, 2003 Ahkaraz Abdellah krkaba, voc, handclaps - 1994 Ahkaraz Maleem Mahmoud tbel - 1994 Ahkaraz Mina voc - 1994 AkLaff Pheeroan dr - 1992 Alambert Juan perc - 1968 Ali Oma tamb - 1966 Ali Rashied dr - 1965, 1966, 1967, 1970, 1994, 1997, 2001 Alias Alfredo dr - 1997 Allen Claudette voc - 1979 Allen Geri p - 1996 Allen Laurie dr - 1968 Allen Marshall frh - 1964, 1991, 1995

12. Links interview by Robert Young, Junk Media (2001); masaoka miya koto interview by Declan O Driscoll, Rubberneck (1999); Thollem McDonas piano http://www.restructures.net/links/links.htm

BACK TO RESTRUCTURES HOME RELOAD PAGE WITH FRAMES LINK LIBRARY compiled by Jason Guthartz last updated: 07-Jan-2008 = recently added jump to link section: Artists Essays Calendars Magazines ... Misc. Artists Jump to: A B C D ... Z A TOP AACM [Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians] website website of NY Chapter Abe Kaoru reeds discography Muhal Richard Abrams piano article by Peter Margasak, Chicago Reader interview by Ted Panken, All About Jazz (2007) Carlos Actis Dato reeds article by Ken Waxman, One Final Note Jason Ajemian bass website webpage at MySpace Pheeroan akLaff drums website Marshall Allen reeds interview by Clifford Allen, All About Jazz interview by Fred Jung interview by Edwin Pouncey (1995) webpage at El Ra Records Rashied Ali drums interview by Fred Jung interview by Mark Patel, One Final Note Maarten Altena bass, composer website article by Anthony Fiumara (2003) see European Free Improvisation Pages AMM article by Stuart Broomer, Coda essay by John Corbett, Chicago Reader (1994) see European Free Improvisation Pages Laura Andel composer website discography Fred Anderson tenor sax article by Lyn Horton

13. Miya Masaoka: Composer, Performer, Sound Artist Official site of musician, composer and performance artist miya masaoka. Includes information on works, as well as photos, music files and video clips. http://www.miyamasaoka.com/

About Music Interdisciplinary Media Files ... Laser Koto , field recordings, laptop, video and written scores for ensembles , chamber orchestras and mixed choirs. In her pieces she has investigated the sound and movement of insects , as well as the physiological response of plants , the human brain and her own body. Within these varied contexts her performance work investigates the interactive, collaborative aspects of sound, improvisation, nature and society.

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16. Miya Masaoka Article from AsianImprov.com emphasizing her freeform works and performances, jazz influences, and collaborations. Includes photograph and discography. http://www.asianimprov.com/artists_one.asp?artistid=19

17. Miya Masaoka Biography from the Other Minds Festival touching on her wide range of musical accomplishments. Includes photograph of her playing the koto. http://www.otherminds.org/shtml/Masaoka.shtml

Search site for: Miya Masaoka (born Washington, DC, 1958) works simultaneously in the varied musical worlds of jazz, Western classical music, electronic music, traditional Japanese music, and free improvisation, and is currently the director of an ensemble of traditional Japanese court music, the San Francisco Gagaku Society. She has studied Japanese music with court musician Suenobu Togi, and holds music degrees from San Francisco State University and Mills College, where she received a Masters degree in composition, having studied with Alvin Curran. Her debut recording for solo koto, Compositions/Improvisations, has received critical acclaim in Europe and the United States. She has performed solo and with a wide variety of musicians and traditions, including Pharoah Sanders, L. Subramaniam and the Global Symphony, Rova Saxophone Quartet, Steve Coleman, Tetsuhiro Daiku, Francis Wong, Mark Izu, George Lewis, and others. Her investigations of improvisational and compositional forms encapsulate both the inward solo koto works, and have led her to forming her own orchestra, the Masaoka Orchestra. She and the orchestra have been commissioned by the San Francisco Art Commission and Zellerbach to perform a site-specific piece

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20. PingMag - The Tokyo-based Magazine About “Design And Making Things” Every time miya masaoka touches the laser, a prerecorded koto sound sample PingMag talked to miya masaoka about her enhanced instruments – and her sound http://pingmag.jp/2007/01/11/miya-masaoka/

Miya Masaoka: Music Experiments with Laser Koto 11 Jan 2007 Category: Features Worldwide Japan Music ... Technology Every time Miya Masaoka touches the laser, a prerecorded koto sound sample gets triggered through her Apple. Photo by Lori Eanes Experimental technicians-slash-musicians have always tried to push the boundaries of sound. That’s why there is a nice collection of undoubtedly strange instruments on this planet! Just think of electronic inventions such as the Theremin and its ghostly whining. Today we picked a recent-queer one for you: The Laser Koto ! American Miya Masaoka updated the koto , a giant traditional Japanese instrument resembling a zither , to modern digital music making and enhanced it with laser beams. Eventually she replaced the whole analogue corpus with lasers and connects that to an Apple computer. For real, this Laser Koto is definitely something strange along the way of the intertwined relationship between music and technology. Or maybe this is Miya’s way of keeping up the tradition as a third generation Japanese, currently residing in New York with her little daughter!? PingMag talked to Miya Masaoka about her enhanced instruments – and her sound experiments with insects such as cockroaches and bees. Written by Verena Miya Masaoka in New York Miya, where did the story of your

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