Well it's fascinating.

is it poop

Magical bookends: he didn't have anyone introduce him. He sent ready-waves out to us and everyone just HUSHED. The performance was all 1 piece + quite raucous at times, of course. At the end as he wound it down, the energy shifting, slowing, fading, a tiny kid in the audience said "It's quiet now!"

It's so very much not something that can be captured in a snippet, but here's a snippet:

He is literally holding the tape measure. What more do we need to know?

You ever try to code switch at work and fail? 😂

I may even have photographic evidence!

awww sorry, feel better soon

Also I guess I'm really paging @stef.net

A photo of him on stage bowing a large gong suspended by a handmade plumbing pipe frame. TATSUYA NAKATANI :: solo improvised performance for percussion + bowed gong 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.

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Hey Syracuse NY - Tatsuya Nakatani is performing tonight. He's a gem; voted favorite percussionist at our house!

Plus a poet + the debut of a new improvisational trio.

We used to be a stop for all kinds of free/avant/jazz folks and my soul has missed it so much.
artragegallery.org/tatsuya-naka...

sorry i just woke up at 4am and i'm eating a baked potato

Ain't no war like a class war cuz a class war is mandatory.

boop

A more full vertical shot of the quince bush - the tiny flowers are almost neon coral red in the sun. The bunny is now just in the foreground, still under the branches.

Moments later the sun makes everything glow and the graupel is melting. Bunny in foreground.

A yard with long tufts of green grass sprinkled with fresh white graupel/snow. On the left, a portion of a quince bush with bright pink-red flowers and a bunny in silhouette underneath it.

bunny, graupel, quince bush

Coachella is trying to wipe all of the footage of The Strokes protest set so I’m gonna post it here. The last images on the screen made me cry.

are you telling me this scallion pan cake

are you telling me this scallion can rap

The world just wasn't ready.

Add in mandatory pants and forget it.

a plastic shell container of those small crunchy sesame-seasoned nori chips, with my fingers holding one. In the background is my bright fuchsia keyboard.

can't stop won't stop

Stand on head?

Young pope Leo, undated but he appears to be in his teens or early 20’s

young pope leo looks like a ska scene regular who goes by Upbeat but no one knows his real name

Exactly one year ago today:

a powerful reminder of the grotesqueness of man's sinful nature, thank u sonic

I'm not bragging but I am saying ffs find something that helps you feel better right now, even a tiny thing.

Ask about renting our Dishwater Fountain™ for your next special event.

Continuously quoting an AI definition of 'ad hominen' didn't really help either.

Just blocked jcar8mm.bsky.social who appears to be a committed full time rape apologist, at best.