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
BOISE IDAHO !!! I'm coming to play the music soon. I hope to see many new interesting people !!
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The radio show with great MIKE WATT is up on internet ! Check it out.
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ANGEL CITY JAZZ FESTIVAL 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.
MOTOKO: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, and began studying both piano and transcription. She showed interest in anything artistic, and at age of 4, she received the first silver medal for her painting from the city wide competition. Before age of 10, she received the national government prize for her Japanese Calligraphy, and numerous awards for music compositions and for her paintings. She transcribed many folk and pop songs by ear and made arrangements for ensembles and brass bands, also led the theater group called “Aozora”. "Aozora" had public performances of her first musical theater script while she composed and performed live improvisation. She also took a leading role as an actress in one of the works "Aozora" had presented.
At age 11, Motoko was discovered by Ms. Tokiwa Ishibashi the emeritus professor of the Miyagi Woman’s College. With her guidance, she was accepted into the superior program in the Music Institute under Ms. Ruiko Koga at age 13, and studied under Japan’s reknowned pianists such as Prof. Satoko Tokumaru(Toho School of Music), Prof. Takashi Hironaka(Tokyo Music Conservatory, judge, Rachmaninoff International Piano Competition), Prof. Aiko Onishi(Toho School of Music, San Jose University of California). Those years Motoko received numerous awards from competitions including the Japan’s most prestigious JPTA nation wide competition, the 1st place in North Japan and became a finalist in national by performing Franz Liszt’s "La Leggierezza', and 'Ballade No.2" in 1991.
At age 18, as her interest shifted from music to people themselves and different cultures in the world, Motoko decided to quit playing piano entirely to be a Phychology major and moved to Kansas, USA. She spend time traveling through out the states, meeting people, studied drums/percussions, and by fate she met Dr. Robert Moeling, the internationally reknowned pianist who guided her back to the piano. She traveled to Europe in 1997, performed numerous concerts as a soloist for concertos. She also performed as a chamber musician and improviser at many historical places such as the Duomo and the Academia Dei Rozzi/Sala Degli Specchi in Siena, Italy.
She finished her BA in Percussion Performance and Piano Performance from Bethany College in Kansas, received the honor of being the representing soloist in the graduation ceremony, performing Frederic Chopin's Ballade No.4. She also received numerous scholarships to study at California Institute of the Arts in Valencia for her Master Program:Multi-Keyboard Performance, emphasizing the extended piano techniques under Dr. Vicki Ray. She studied improvisation with Mr. Bryan Pezzone, and classical repertoire from Dr.Peter Miyamoto. She was selected to represent CalArts’ piano program in its promotional CD, performing several repertoires from Makrokosmos by George Crumb, she was also selected to perform the entire Piano Concerto by Robert Schumann as a soloist with the CalArts Orchestra.
Motoko was also accepted into the Perfomer/Composer program under Wadada Leo Smith. She studied composition with Aurther Jarvinen, Wadada Leo Smith; Electronics with Mark Trayle, Improvisational Ensemble with Vinny Golia and Leroy Jenkins, Jazz with Paul Novros, Larry Koonse, Miroslav Tadic and David Roitstein. She joined the Balinese Dance and Music “Kechak” troup under I. Nyoman Wenten, studied African Dance with Beautrice Lawluvi, African Drumming with Alfred Ladzekpo, Hand Drumming with John Bergamo, Indian Drumming “tabla” with Swapan Chudhuri, and Indian Music with Rajeev Taranath. In her last year at CalArts, Motoko was selected to be a leader of a representing group to perform her compositions for the annual Creative Music Festival along with internatinal talents.
Motoko currently lives in downtown Los Angeles, CA, she is a founding member of Los Angeles Piano Unit, a group dedicated to perform all kinds of piano music from classical to experimental. She is also a member of M. Rare Trio, and a founder of Okiro music Series and Ensemble. She is currently working on the “Sound Escape Project", an experimental collaboration with some of the greatest improvisers in the world.
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 Mo'! Whatcha doin' this Sunday? Thought you might like to git funky and have a taco ;] Hope yr doin' great.
SUNDAY 8/17 SuperFunkSundayFiesta! @ The Little Cave!
I'm back at the Little Cave for their Sunday Fiesta this Sunday 8/17 spreadin' the funk around for you Cavemen and Cavewomen while you dine on $5 tasty Taco Platters an' git loaded on $3 Bud Light Pints and $5 special drinks! I've got more great dvd footage eye candy to play on the big screen too. No Cover to c'mon in and get down with the Soul Junkie so shake that thang on over!
Thanks for adding me! You're doing angel city jazz festival too, right? I remember seeing you on the myspace page. Anyways, can't wait to hear you live! Ian
"Plutoids are celestial bodies in orbit around the sun at a distance greater than that of Neptune that have sufficient mass for their self-gravity to overcome rigid body forces so that they assume a hydrostatic equilibrium (near-spherical) shape, and that have not cleared the neighborhood around their orbit."
In short: small round things beyond Neptune that orbit the sun and have lots of rocky neighbors.
The two known and named plutoids are Pluto and Eris.
Motoko love where you are going with '1st set with Matt' as well as 'on the toe'. Nice spacial abstract voicings. Very much looking forward to the live/virtual collab with you and Emily and my friend Will next weekend at the Boise Experimental Music Festival.
Hi Motoko hi how are you hope all is well with you haven't heard from you in awhile glad to see you still playing like a angel may God continue to bless you and your career keep in touch take care of your self keep smiling playing thoses keys like you do .
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