Tatsuya Nakatani and guests at Moving Parts Dance

Wed Mar 04 2026 at 08:00 pm to 09:00 pm UTC-08:00

Moving Parts Dance | Olympia

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Tatsuya Nakatani and guests at Moving Parts Dance
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Gong master Tatsuya NAKATANI returns to Olympia with stunning sonic landscape-like textures created with drum and metal.
About this Event

TATSUYA NAKATANI and special guests! At Moving Parts (302 Columbia NW) on March 4- doors at 7:30 show at 8pm prompt! Tickets through Eventbrite or at the door.


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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Event Venue & Nearby Stays

Moving Parts Dance, 302 Columbia Street Northwest, Olympia, United States

Tickets

USD 14.64 to USD 33.85

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