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Miya Masaoka - Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia Miya Masaoka (born Washington, D.C., 1958) is an American musician and composer who performs on the 17string Japanese koto zither, often augmenting it with string preparations and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miya_Masaoka
Extractions: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation search Miya Masaoka (born Washington, D.C. , 1958) is an American musician and composer who performs on the 17-string Japanese koto zither, often augmenting it with string preparations and electronic triggers (as in her "Koto Monster", where additional laser beam "strings" hover over the koto). She is Japanese American She is known for creative, improvisational technique, and a sensibility that combines experimental Western approaches with the tradition of the koto. Her compositions have included works for large ensembles, sometimes with unusual sound sources such as hives of bees, or the amplified sounds of human bodies (brain waves, heartbeat, etc.). One notable piece was performed outdoors in a plaza on San Francisco 's sometimes unsavory Market Street, utilizing an ensemble of dozens of musicians, a pair of male and female exotic dancers, and taped interviews with sex workers: "What's the Difference Between Stripping and Playing the Violin?" An impressive blend of musical composition, and site-specific conceptual art. She has also done performance art utilizing insects ( Madagascar hissing cockroaches , bees) crawling across her body (references to the Yoko Ono film Fly Miya Masaoka is known as one of the more distinctive members of the Bay Area Improv Scene (sometimes also called the Creative/New Music scene) in the San Francisco Bay Area . She is a founding member of the electro-acoustic improvisation and experimental trio
Miya Masaoka: Composer, Performer, Sound Artist Official site of musician, composer and performance artist Miya Masaoka. Includes information on works, as well as photos, music files and video clips. http://www.miyamasaoka.com/
Extractions: About Music Interdisciplinary Media Files ... Laser Koto , field recordings, laptop, video and written scores for ensembles , chamber orchestras and mixed choirs. In her pieces she has investigated the sound and movement of insects , as well as the physiological response of plants , the human brain and her own body. Within these varied contexts her performance work investigates the interactive, collaborative aspects of sound, improvisation, nature and society.
Artist Subindex Starting M Masaoka, Miya Crepuscular Music Usual Turmoil and Other Duets http://www.the-improvisor.com/i00019.html
Extractions: Makihara , Toshi Another Shining Path Manderscheid , Dieter Gestalten Marron Sleep Hammer Marshall Marotte Scientists Levitate Small Animals Marsh, George Game No Game Margot Mathieu Speechless Miya Masaoko Accordion, Koto w/Pauline Oliveros For Birds, Planes and Cellos Purple Wind ... While I Was Walking I Heard a Sound Mathews, Doug Torque Mathieu, W.A. Game No Game
Miya Masaoka Biography from the Other Minds Festival touching on her wide range of musical accomplishments. Includes photograph of her playing the koto. http://www.otherminds.org/shtml/Masaoka.shtml
Extractions: Miya Masaoka (born Washington, DC, 1958) works simultaneously in the varied musical worlds of jazz, Western classical music, electronic music, traditional Japanese music, and free improvisation, and is currently the director of an ensemble of traditional Japanese court music, the San Francisco Gagaku Society. She has studied Japanese music with court musician Suenobu Togi, and holds music degrees from San Francisco State University and Mills College, where she received a Masters degree in composition, having studied with Alvin Curran. Her debut recording for solo koto, Compositions/Improvisations, has received critical acclaim in Europe and the United States. She has performed solo and with a wide variety of musicians and traditions, including Pharoah Sanders, L. Subramaniam and the Global Symphony, Rova Saxophone Quartet, Steve Coleman, Tetsuhiro Daiku, Francis Wong, Mark Izu, George Lewis, and others. Her investigations of improvisational and compositional forms encapsulate both the inward solo koto works, and have led her to forming her own orchestra, the Masaoka Orchestra. She and the orchestra have been commissioned by the San Francisco Art Commission and Zellerbach to perform a site-specific piece
A Mínima / Miya Masaoka revista de arte y nuevas tecnolog as Miya Masaoka . Resides in New York City and is a classically trained musician, composer and sound artist. http://aminima.net/wp/?p=845&language=en
Miya Masaoka : About : Bio Official site of musician, composer and performance artist Miya Masaoka. Includes information on works, as well as photos, music files and video clips. http://www.miyamasaoka.com/about/bio/
Extractions: One-paragraph bio (PDF) Miya Masaoka, musician, composer, performance artist, has created works for koto , laser interfaces , laptop and video and written scores for ensembles , chamber orchestras and mixed choirs. In her performance pieces she has investigated the sound and movement of insects, as well as the physiological responses of plants, the human brain, and her own body. Within these varied contexts of sound, music and nature, her performance work emphasizes the interactive, live nature of improvisation, and reflects an individual, contemporary expression of Japanese gagaku aural gesturalism Masaoka's work has been presented in Japan, Canada, Europe, Eastern Europe and she has toured to India six times. Venues include V2 in Rotterdam, Cybertheater in Brussels, Elektronisch Festival in Groningen, the Cleveland Performance Art Festival, The Electronik Body Festival in Bratislava, Slovakia, Radio Bremen, Germany, Festival of Lights, Hyberadad, India, and the London Musicians Collective. Since forming and directing the San Francisco Gagaku Society, Masaoka has been creating new ways of thinking about and performing on the Japanese koto. She has developed a virtuosic and innovative approach, including improvisation and expanding the instrument into a virtual space using computer, lasers, live sampling, and real time processing.
A Mínima / Arte Sonoro revista de arte y nuevas tecnolog as Miya Masaoka (spanish) Resides in New York City and is a classically trained musician, composer and sound artist. http://aminima.net/wp/?cat=14&language=en
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KZSU Zookeeper Online Masaoka, Miya Part 2 While I Was Walking, I Heard A Sound Solitary B Records Gold Record Studio Felishia Mutt Rent Live At Laney Flea Market Edgetone Records http://zookeeper.stanford.edu/index.php?action=viewDJ&playlist=14695&seq
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Thomas Moore's New Music Links -- Koto Masaoka, Miya Miya Masaoka home page Miya Masaoka page at Other Minds Mukaiyama, Tomoko page at The Ensemble Sospeso Odamura, Satsuki page at Elision Ensemble http://research.umbc.edu/~tmoore/nml/koto.html
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KZSU Zookeeper Online Masaoka, Miya Illusion 34 *** CompositionsImprovisations Asian Improv Records Libera Societa Di Improvvisazi Solotue Samosaisa *** Al Malaiko Noskema http://zookeeper.stanford.edu/index.php?action=viewDJ&playlist=12554&seq
EMF PRODUCTIONS Miya Masaoka Miya Masaoka, composer, sound/installation artist, has created works for solo koto, laser interfaces, explosive powders, model trains, laptop and video, sculpture http://www.emfproductions.org/pastevents0809/commissions2_3m.html
Extractions: EMF commissioned six New York-based composers to create works for New York Soundscape. The goal in the commissions was to create a body of examples for others, not necessarily professionals, to follow. Marina Rosenfeld's Near Speakers , drawing its sounds from what she calls the 'acoustical bleed' of sound devices in crowded spaces, was the third of the commissions to be presented. Miya Masaoka's Quest for Minetta Creek , combining documentary and sound art in a quest to find a creek running under New York's streets in the West Village, was the fourth of the commissioned works to be presented. And composer Michael Schumacher's Eros-Ion , a multimedia work based on industrial sounds in Brooklyn, created in collaboration with video artist Nisi Jacobs, was the fifth commissioned work to be presented.
