FMP: Tatsuya Nakatani & Arcx Quartet
Wed, Apr 08
|The Perch
Legendary Bowed Gong specialist is coming to town. Not to be missed. Your soul will be cracked and opened. Opening is supply siders Arcx Quartet led by Member Carlos Santiago and also featuring incredible cellist Tom Kraines . Fire Museum Presents on the curation.
Time & Location
Apr 08, 2026, 8:00 PM
The Perch, 2321 Emerald St, Philadelphia, PA 19125, USA
About the event
Tickets- $15 to 25 Tatsuya Nakatani:
Tatsuya Nakatani is an avant-garde percussionist, composer, and artist of sound. Active internationally since the 1990s, Nakatani has released over 80 recordings and tours extensively, performing over 150 concerts a year. His primary focus is his solo work and his large ensemble project, the Nakatani Gong Orchestra. He teaches master classes and lectures at universities and music conservatories around the world. Originally from Japan, he makes his home in the desert town of Truth or Consequences, New Mexico. With his activity in new music, improvisation, and experimental music, Nakatani has a long history of collaboration.
Nakatani's distinctive music 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…