Indexical is pleased to present solo percussionist Tatsuya Nakatani and a new performance work from interdisciplinary artist Aine Nakamura.

Tatsuya Nakatani is an avant-garde percussionist, composer, and artist of sound. Active internationally since the 1990s, Nakatani has released over 80 recordings and tours extensively, performing over 150 concerts a year. His primary focus is his solo work and his large ensemble project, the Nakatani Gong Orchestra. He teaches master classes and lectures at universities and music conservatories around the world. Originally from Japan, he makes his home in the desert town of Truth or Consequences, New Mexico. With his activity in new music, improvisation, and experimental music, Nakatani has a long history of collaboration.

Nakatani's distinctive music centered around his adapted bowed gong, supported by an array of drums, cymbals, and singing bowls. In consort with his personally hand-carved Kobo Bows, he has spent decades refining and developing his sound as an arrangement of formations of vibrations, incorporated in shimmering layers of silence and texture. Within this contemporary work, one can still recognize the dramatic pacing, formal elegance and space (ma) felt in traditional Japanese music.

Aine Nakamura's art of voice and body tells stories that are her interventions in traditional power structures, across multiple cultural/transcultural sites. She focuses on the potentialities of voice and on the listening and sensing bodies. Through her performance of voice and movement, she aims to create spaces of connecting and coexisting. Her transnational and transgenerational background led her to a quest of betweenness and beneathness. This search beneath surfaces has become a site of exploration, a place of mending and soul.

Her recent works include her solo performance of sung and spoken voice and body "Under an Unnamed Flower" during an invitation to the 50th International Theatre Festival at the Venice Biennale; solo performance project "Circle hasu We plant seeds in the spring of mountains," presented at Theatertreffen at Berliner Festspiele upon an invitation as a Stückemarkt artist; and a month-long site-specific exhibition and performance project "hands on tape," presented at The Lab in SF, unfolded over research, conversations and collaborations.