Wadada Leo Smith, Vinny Golia, Mark Trayle, Miloslav Tadic, John Bergamo, Brian Pezzone,Vicki Ray, Robert Moeling,Gary Fukushima,Leroy Jenkins, Paul Novros, Larry Koonse, Miroslav Tadic,David Roitstein,I. Nyoman Wenten, Beautrice Lawluvi, Alfred Ladzekpo,John Bergamo, Swapan Chudhuri, Rajeev Taranath.Myra Melford, Lenni Stern, Kris Tiner, Jason Meyers,Tokiwa Ishibashi,Ruiko Koga,J.S.Bach, Franz Liszt, George Crumb
SEPTEMBER 1st LABORS DAY !!!!! MONDAY/HOLIDAY !!!
I'm performing my composition based on the images of current Los Angeles. This is dedicated to the festival and you, people in LA !! I invited innovative improvisers, Steuart Liebig - bass, Vinny Golia - woodwinds,
Joe Berardi - drums, Jessica Catron - Cello, Jeff Gauthier - violin, Kris Tiner - trumpet, so it will be smashing !! I wil be performing 1:30pm in the theater. There will be food, beer, wine, live arts, outdoor stage as well !!
CHECK OUT www.Angelcityjazzfestival.com !!
NEW CD COMING SOON !! "Shiratori" A journey of a white bird with singer/poet/artist, Kamal Kozah. CD was recorded in March 2008 at Westlake Studios in Hollywood, CA.
CD on SALE now !! Andrea Centazzo West Coast Trio(featuring Kai Kurosawa and me), Visit www.myspace.com/andreacentazzowestcoasttrio for more info and sounds !
This Saturday, April 5th, 2008, 8PM Los Angeles Piano Unit Spring Concert !!!
PROGRAM
15 Inventions BWV772-786 Johann Sebastian Bach
Sonata for 2 pianos in D Major, K.448 W.A.Mozart
Intermission
2piano Improvisation
1. X. 1905 Sonata for Piano 1. X. 1905 Leo Janácek
Allegro for Piano 4 hands in A minor, D 947/Op. 144 "Lebensstürme” Franz Schubert
Piano Sonata no. 1 op. 22 Alberto Ginastera
March 22nd 8PM-TANTRA PLEASE NOT TANTRUM/
TANTRIC POETRY AND MUSIC
FOR A STRESSED OUT WORLD
ORIGINAL POEMS AND MUSIC BY DOWNTOWN ARTISTS. SOCIAL COMMENTARIES ABOUT HUMAN BEHAVIOURS AND ERRONIOUS INTERPRETATIONS ON SEX, SEXUAL HABITS AND SOCIAL BIASES DERIVING FROM MODERN MINDSETS.
E-MAIL INFOS:
-mapkaulun@yahoo.com
-WWW.ROCCOINLA.COM
-www.myspace.com/motokohonda
DONATIONS WELCOMED $5(and more, of course)
Coming Up ! Collaboration Work with an artist Fumiko Amano at Lawrence Asher Gallery, Nov. 3rd 2007, 7:00 performance with live drawing.
Improvisation has been always closest to me-Since I remember, I was always singing, making up the songs I felt each moment and everything I saw and I thought...which annoyed my family a lot. Now I just let it ring in my head and occasionally play on the piano. I believe the improvisation is nothing weird but something we all understand and are most familiar-it is the humming we do in the bathroom, it is the sound of rain, winds, the eyes of your favorite person, and everything we see and feel in this world and maybe, even beyond.
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Motoko was born in Japan, began studying both piano and transcription at age four. She showed interest in anything artistic, and received many awards for her paintings and compositions from city-wide to the national level competition including the highest prize from government for her Japanese Calligraphy. She was also a founding member of the child theater group, and was active as an actress, play writing and musical score writing.
At age 11, Motoko was discovered by Emeritus Prof. Tokiwa Ishibashi at Miyagi Woman's College, began studing as a member of honor program in their Music Institute with Ms. Ruiko Koga. Her instructors include Japans reknowned pianists such as Prof. Satoko Tokumaru(Toho School of Music), Prof. Takashi Hironaka(Tokyo Music Conservatory and udge, Rachmaninoff International Piano Competition), Prof. .Aiko Onishi(Toho School of Music, San Jose University of California). Motoko received numerous awards from competitions including Japan’s most prestigious JPTA national competition.
Motoko moved to Kansas, U.S.A. in 1995, to study Psychology and Percussion/Drums with Dean Kranzler. By fate, Pianist and professor Dr. Robert Moeling guided her back to music major, and graduated in Piano and Percussion Performance. These years, she also worked as college accompanist and was active as a soloist and as a chamber musician, traveled to Europe performed at many Music Festivals and historical places such as Cattedorale di Pienza,Montecatini Terme, Duomo and the Academia Dei Rozzi/Sala Degli Specchi in Siena, Italy.
In 1999 Motoko received graduate teaching assistantship in California Institute of the Arts. She studied in multi-piano performance program with Dr.Vicki Ray,Mr. Bryan Pezzone, and Dr. Peter Miyamoto. Accepted into Composer/Performer program with mentor Wadada Leo Smith in 2001, she expanded her horizons as a performer composer utilizing electronic devices, world music, and extended piano techniques. She also performs with multi-media working with various visual artists and dancers.
At CalArts, Motoko also studied with other instructors and each influenced her distinctly.-Aurther Jarvinen(Composition), Mark Trayl(electronics),Vinny Golia and Leroy Jenkins( Improvisational Ensemble), Paul Novros, Larry Koonse, David Roitstein(Jazz). Miroslav Tadic(East European Music), Rajeev Taranath(Indian Music),Swapan Chudhuri(Tabla),Nyoman Wenten (Balinese and Kechak),Alfred Ladzekpo (African Drums), Beautrice Lawluvi(African Dance) ,John Bergamo(Hand Drumming).
Motoko performs as a multi-media performer, composer, performer, classical and contemporary pianist at Festivals and many creative venues. She is also an dedicated piano instructor and certified yamaha music education system instructor.
Interests
-Create the architecture of sound
-plays piano inside and out
-improvise and composition(influences include african, ballinese, and japanese music)
-premere new compositions-both traditional and crazy new ones
-connect electronics to piano or play with keyboard(virtual analog synth or hooked up to computer)
-collaborate with various kind of artists-visual, video, dancers, light design
-record for films
-hard core classical solo and chamber repertoire
-learning jazz piano
Performances
Line Space Line festival
REDCAT/MOCA at disney hall
Ear Jam Music Festival
Park City Music Festival
Sienna Music Festival, Italy
Sandzen Gallery Musium
Rocco
Lillian Theater
Cafe Metropol
Eagle Rock Cultual Center
Club Tropical
The Smell
Poobah Record
Dangerous Curve
Raid Projects
Barnsdall Gallery Theatre
Lawrence Asher Gallery
Cattedorale/Duomo di Siena-Italy
Accademia Dei Rozzi, Sala Degli Specchi-Italy
19th San Quirico Estate Festival-Italy
Cortile Del Podesta -Italy
53rd Anniversary Concert of the Liberazione di Ponsacco-Italy
Cattedorale di Pienza-Italy
Montecatini Terme-Italy
Horti Leonini-San Quirico D'Orcia-Italy
George & Sakaye Aratani Japan America Theatre(kecyak)
Interests 2
-collaborate and collaborate- with musicians, and with artists-
-create new music and bring life back into old music as well
-support other pianists and piano students
-support communities of musicians and artists
Hey Motoko, I'm a little late with this but it was awesome jamming with you again. Hopefully we can do it again soon w/out the extra musicians that were there. You sounded great as always. Keep in touch!
The raven takes the smallest pieces of forbidden knowledge, confabulating in carnal thesis with claw on bible his dead man’s pledge:
Never More
That life he lived fraught for his liver, and his forsaken gifts, though not forgiven, to speck across his eyes azure like holes straight through his scull’s contour.
Through his head then flies the raven.
Through to the charms long lost, forgotten, the laws engraved on fleeting wind like the hush of secrets ill-spoken.
The world's talisman is a dream of wealth, The world's talisman is a dream of murder; Who brought this score of another’s death, as one man’s scream is another’s laughter:
either/or
That he personified animals within his own evil then threaded their feathers back onto straw villains; wars wolfed, and vanity vultured onto GI Joe scarecrows and crucified totems, his stomach, his brain, his culture.
Neither/Nor
He is contained by his own shadow like tintinnabulation in the bell tolled escaping out through the burned over meadow vibrating through the bones of a world gone cold.
He prays and he raves for the blood of Mohammad, for fortune, for frankincense and crude.
In the mask of the morals of the sad history of the self, and the stark raving rude generations that don't give a flying fuck.
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