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Tatsuya NAKATANI - ArtSPEAK@FSW solo concert/performanceis a FSW “One Theme, One College” event
Sponsored by the Richard & Julia Rush Endowment
Tuesday, October 15th at 6pm doors (6:30pm performance)
Bob Rauschenberg Gallery at FSW
This event is open to the public, FREE of charge.
(Fort Myers, FL): Florida Southwestern State College is pleased to announce the return of internationally renowned percussionist/musician and composer Tatsuya NAKATANI for his first solo ArtSPEAK@FSW concert/performance at the Bob Rauschenberg Gallery on Tuesday, October 15th, 2024 at 6:00pm (doors open). Back by popular demand, following his 2023 Nakatani Gong Orchestra performance, we are delighted to bring Nakatani-san to Southwest Florida once again for a special FSW “One Theme, One College” event. Focusing this year on “Our Changing Worlds,” Japanese-born Tatsuya Nakatani continues to tour-widely and to have a global impact through his workshops, recordings and live music events.
Tatsuya NAKATANI is a master percussionist, composer/musician. Performing worldwide since the 1990s, Nakatani-san has released over 80 recordings and toured extensively, often performing 150 concerts or more per year. Celebrated for his solo work as an improvisor and experimental musician, he also has a long history of collaboration – including his large ensemble project, the Nakatani Gong Orchestra. Teaching master classes and giving lectures at universities and music conservatories around the world, Mr. Nakatani is originally from Japan, but now makes his home in the desert town of Truth or Consequences, New Mexico. Nakatani’s distinctive music is 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. According to the artist-composer: “Ma is an important part of my relationship to sound. Ma is an idea – meaning space, distance, air, feelings, and things in between…” As Nakatani continues, “It is the silence between the notes which make the music.”
Sponsored by The Richard & Julia Rush Endowment in celebration of our on-going “William S. BURROUGHS & Laurie ANDERSON: Language is a Virus” exhibition, this special, one-time-only ArtSPEAK@FSW event is FREE and Open to the Public. Seating is limited and first-come, so doors will open at 6pm for the 6:30pm event.
More about us: The Bob Rauschenberg Gallery was founded as The Gallery of Fine Art in 1979 on the Lee County campus of Florida Southwestern State College/FSW (then Edison Community College). On June 4th 2004, the Gallery of Fine Art was renamed the Bob Rauschenberg Gallery to honor and commemorate our longtime association and friendship with the artist. Over more than three decades until his death, the Gallery worked closely with Rauschenberg to present world premiere exhibitions including multiple installations of the “¼ Mile or Two Furlong Piece”. The artist insisted on naming the space the Bob Rauschenberg Gallery (versus the “Robert Rauschenberg Gallery”) as it was consistent with the intimate, informal relationship he maintained with both our local Southwest Florida community and FSW.
For additional information: Tel: (239) 489-9313 <www.rauschenberggallery.com> or find us on Facebook!
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Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Florida SouthWestern State College / 8099 College Pkwy SW, Fort Myers, FL, United States, Florida 33919, 8099 College Pkwy, Fort Myers, FL 33919-5566, United States,Pine Manor, Florida
