Name: Tatsuya Nakatani & Arcx Quartet
Start: 2026-04-08T20:00:00-04:00
End: 2026-04-08T22:00:00-04:00
Location: The Perch Music & Arts Community

Tatsuya Nakatani:
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.
Arcx Quartet:
Arcx Quartet guides listeners on an audio trip through hallucinogenic trancepts, foldable shadows and metonymic nebulae, skirting the boundaries of Arcx's labyrinth collective sound-mind. Arcx Quartet seek to find truths/untruths within ever-present interstitial spaces.
For this occasion Arcx Quartet are Carlos Santiago & Melinda Rice- Violin, Matt Engle + Dan Moser - Contrabass and Thomas Kraines- Cello.
accessibility: street level entrance to venue but two steps to restroom.