Post of Nakatani Gong Orchestra followed the master plan

Post 1 (first intro about artist biography)

Please rewrite this using info we gave you (not Kennedy Center info) and photo
for this. The artist gave us new, specific language. There is a bio for him on the
student drive. You should also have all of the approved photos.
The unconventional, uncontrollable, and unpredictable qualities of gong sounds are
percussionist Tatsuya Nakatani’s passion. Having played bowed gongs for over ten years, he has
toured and performed all over the U.S. and internationally with his array of instruments, many of
which he created himself.
Born and raised in Osaka, Japan, Mr. Nakatani currently resides in Easton, Pennsylvania. He has
released over sixty CD recordings in the U.S. and Europe. Since the late 1990s, he has performed
primarily as a solo percussionist across the U.S. and overseas and has taught master classes at
universities as well as holding workshops and lectures.

https://www.kennedy-center.org/Artist/A82712
Post 2 his current activity
Experience Tatsuya Nakatani’s contemporary sound art project on November 16. Nakatani
performs his solo compositions and leads the NAKATANI GONG ORCHESTRA an ensemble of
local musicians Nakatani trains in his unique bowing technique for large gongs. Join the
thousands worldwide who have been exhilarated by Nakatani’s transformative sound works.
Saturday, November 16. 8pm@the Creative Alliance. Co-presented by the Asian Arts & Culture
Center and the Creative Alliance.
https://www.facebook.com/events/428611491020442/
Post 3 (NGO trailer introduction)
“If you don’t have it, what do you do? You make it.” That’s how Tastuya Nakatani
realized his vision to create complex harmonic sounds with Chinese wind gongs.
He developed and crafted many of the equipment you’ll see in his performance:
the Kobo bows, mallets, and surrounding instrumentation equipment. After ten
years of planning and preparation, the NGO began touring in 2011 with four
adapted gongs and has grown to 17 gongs. It is the only bowed gong orchestra in
the world.
Saturday, November 16. 8pm@the Creative Alliance. Co-presented by the Asian Arts & Culture
Center and the Creative Alliance.
https://www.facebook.com/events/428611491020442/

See the NGO trailer at: https://vimeo.com/334030170

Post 4 (NGO short documentary)

Experience the genre-defying music of Tastuya Nakatani and his Nakatani Gong Orchestra. This
nomadic, contemporary sound art project incorporates local musicians trained in Nakatani’s
original technique for playing his adapted bowed gong. Nakatani manifests an intense, organic
sonic world, which also utilizes drums, cymbals, singing bowls, metal objects and bells, as well
as various sticks, kitchen tools, and breath.

Saturday, November 16. 8pm@the Creative Alliance. Co-presented by the Asian Arts & Culture
Center and the Creative Alliance.
https://www.facebook.com/events/428611491020442/
Learn more about NGO in a short documentary below.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eQ31sZveBgk
Post 5 SKIP THIS ONE.
Tatsuya Nakatani: Essences and Abiogenesis-original evolution of life or living organisms from
inorganic or inanimate substances.
What is improvised music without visuality? That visuality can be in the arrangement of players
and their standing, sitting or moving bodies in relationship to the room's acoustics.
Percussionist, Tatsuya Nakatani, born in Osaka, Japan and currently based outside of
Philadelphia, is one of these artists. Essences are a duo summit between Nakatani and Boston-
based trumpeter Forbes Graham. Abiogenesis is quite measured even as it hinges on clear
physical workings-over—blowing on metal disks, a curdling punch to a floor tom, and an array
of piled cymbals met with balance and clarity in blunt poise. Nakatani recently accompanied a
yoga retreat in Houston, Texas, primarily on bowed gongs, which though not exactly producing
"relaxing" tonalities, certainly serve to create centering feedback.
https://www.allaboutjazz.com/tatsuya-nakatani-essences-and-abiogenesis-by-clifford-allen.php
Photo by Scott Gordon