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$15 General Admission
$10 Members/Students/Seniors

Tonight's event features traditional Korean music as well as group improvisations with special guests Ikue Mori, Shoko Nagai, Nate Wooley, Ned Rothenberg, Satoshi Takeishi, and more.

Tori Ensemble is a world music ensemble featuring Korean traditional artists and American free jazz artists - transcending musical borders through a mingling of jazz, new music, and Korean influences.

Featuring HEO Yoon-jeong (geomun-go), KANG Kwon-soon (jeongga), MIN Young-chi (daegum & janggu), LEE Suk-joo (piri), Ned Rothenberg (clarinet & saxophone), Satoshi Takeishi (percussion), Isabel Castellvi (cello)

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VORTEX (Satoshi Takeishi & Shoko Nagai)

Shoko Nagai ( piano, accordion, electronics)
Satoshi Takeishi ( percussion, electronics)

Experimental Piano/Percs duo Vortex has been incorporating composition, free improvisation, electronics, found objects and visual elements into performances to create a unique path into the world of contemporary music. Their performances are based on stories and they create sound textures almost visible to the listener.

In this performance, Vortex will perform new compositions where illusion is sustained by multiple shifting elements.

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Shoko Nagi's "Glimpse of city"


Shoko Nagai (organ, piano, electronics)

Ned Rothenberg (clarinet, bass clarinet)

Sarah Bernstein (violin)

Satoshi Takeishi (percussion, electronics)


* Glimps of city is new work by composer, pianist Shoko Nagai. This work is based on her experiences, reaction and observations in a urban society.



Born in Nagoya, Japan, composer and pianist Shoko Nagai has been evolving as a professional musician for twelve years. After graduating from Berklee College of Music in 1999 she moved to New York City and quickly established herself in the downtown jazz scene performing with such renowned artists as John Zorn, Rasheid Ali, Butch Morris,Tom Rainy, Coung Vu, Ikue Mori, Roy Champbell, Satoshi Takeishi, Trevor Dunn, Sam Newsome, Greg Tardy, Daniel Carter to name a few. The Shoko Nagai Quintet which features some of New York's best musicians has performed extensively at the BlueNote, Knitting factory, Tonic, Location One,Vision Festival as well as at other top New York clubs and concert.


Nagai released her first CD Two Levels Crossing in 2000, second CD VORTEX in 2003, third CD Vsoon in 2003 which sky productions records. Nagai has performed in Norway (Natt Jazz Festival 1998), in Germany (Moers Jazz Festival 2006), Japan, Switzerland and Israel. Her most recent project is "Vortex" which is a free improvisation duo with piano and electronics. In 2004, she received a grant from Philadelphia Music Project 2004 Grant for JazzJaunts, a project in which seven jazz artists will compose and premiere compositions that incorporate musical traditions from their cultural roots. And formed a new project" Ephemeral" with Ned Rothenberg (Shakuhachi, Clarinet, Bass Clarinet), Jennifer Choi (Violin), John Lindberg (A. Bass), Stomu Takeishi (E. Bass), Satoshi Takeishi (Japanese percussion, electronics).



http://www.myspace.com/shokonagai

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David Linton: Bicameral Research Sound & Projection System with special guests - David First & Satoshi Takeishi

David Linton - interactive sound and live video
David First - guitar & electronics
Satoshi Takeishi - percussion

David Linton (born Newburgh NY 1956) is a Time based multiple media artist traveling the vectors of sound, subculture, and signal flow. He has been active in the downtown NYC experimental arts community for 30 years. Originally a percussionist, David has created sound, music, and something in between, for many collaborative dance, theater, & performance settings since his arrival in NY at the end of 1970's. By the later 80's - after a good deal of percussion work along side other musicians: Lee Ranaldo, Rhys Chatham, Glenn Branca, Elliott Sharp among others - he was equally known for his live wired solo electro-acoustic drumkit performances as well as his soundscore productions for the Wooster Group & choreographers Karole Armitage & Steven Petronio among many others. His 1986 solo Lp "Orchesography" was an unlikely collusion of street beats, early sampling tek, and theatrical post modernism. By the early 90's he had retired from performing in the live electro-acoustic vein to concentrate on the vocabulary of entirely electronic music and the resultant paradigm shift in performance priorities this new 'compressed' format suggested. Throughout the 90's Linton became a dedicated advocate for the expansion and appreciation of realtime performance in electronic media through the design and/or production of event/environments such as 'SoundLab' (1996) and eventually 'UnityGain' (1997-present). In the later 90's David was a key participant in Meg Stuart/Damaged Goods multimedia improvisation project "Crash Landing".
From 2001 Linton's fascination with instantaneous collaborative audio visual communication among select units of electronic sound and visual artists assumed the form of a live experimental television Manhattan cable/webcast project - UGTV - Unitygain Television (2001-2004) - for which he was producer/director - and occasional performer. In 2004 David embarked upon his present course with the launch of his solo audio-visual project: the Bicameral Research Sound & Projection System -
With his "Bicameral Research Sound & Projection System" (2004) Linton aims to make vibrational wave induced perceptual energy states manifest by deploying interconnected measures of electric sound & pulsing light in live action with hand manipulated objects in physical (live camera) space.
He employs an integrated recursive audio & video feedback system of his own perversely simple design modulated by freehand intervention to deliver vigorous eye, ear, and - sometimes - body shaking realtime audio visual performances from which a kind of retro-tech animist ritual "medicine show" emerges where subject and object blur. Thematically David likes to consider that within the 20th Century 60 Hz alternating electrical current gradually came to function as a primary subliminal Prana in the mass bio-energetic body/culture of human life in North America...

http://bicameral.multiply.com/
http://www.myspace.com/bicameral
http://www.youtube.com/user/bicameralresearch
http://bicameralresearch.blogspot.com/
http://www.unitygain.org/
http://pddinthetol.multiply.com/

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ROULETTE BENEFIT $20
Curated by Shoko Nagai

Okkyung Lee - cello
Kato Hideki - bass/analog synth
Maria Chavez - turntable
Satoshi Takeishi - percussion, electronics
Shoko Nagai - piano, moog, auto harp
Elliott Sharp - guitar

A native of Korea, Okkyung Lee has been developing her own voice in contemporary cello performance, improvisation and composition. Using her solid classical training as a springboard, she incorporates jazz, sounds, korean traditional music, and noise with extended techniques
to create her unique blend of music. Okkyung has released her debut album, Nihm on Tzadik; a duo recording with Christian Marclay on My Cat is an Alien label's split LP series; and a solo cello album I saw the Ghost of an Unknown Soul and it Said.
www.myspace.com/okkunglee

Kato Hideki (Kato:family name; Hideki: given) is a Japanese-born composer/bassist/multi-instrumentalist, who lives in NYC. He is the co-founder of Death Ambient with Ikue Mori & Fred Frith. His other groups as a leader are: Green Zone with Otomo Yoshihide & Uemura Masahiro; OMNI wtih Nakamura Toshimaru & Akiyama Tetsuzi. His compositions include: solo piece "Turbulent Zone" for electric bass with prime number tuning; "Tremolo of Joy" for his band with Charles Burnham, Briggan Krauss, Ed Tomney & Calvin Weston. Besides his own projects, Kato collaborates with Nicolas Collins, James Fei and Ursula Scherrer. As a bassist and composer, he has worked with Andy Gonzalez, Eyvind Kang, John King, Karen Manter, Zeena Parkins, Jim Pugliese, Michael Schumacher, Steve Swallow, John Zorn and among many others. He is also a member of analog synthesizer collective, Analogos at Diapason Gallery. (http://www.katohideki.com/)

Born in Peru, avant-turntablist Maria Chavez currently resides in
Brooklyn, New York. With a collection of new and broken needles that
she calls "pencils of sound" and a selection of records, she harnesses
the electro-acoustic sounds of vinyl and needle.
Chavez made her New York City debut in a duet with Thurston Moore of
Sonic Youth, collaborated with fellow turntablist Otomo Yoshihide as
part of the 2007 Wien Modern Festival, and recently shared a stage
with Pauline Oliveros and Lydia Lunch during Vienna's Phonofemme festival 2009.

Satoshi Takeishi, sound artist, drummer, percussionist, and arranger is a native of Mito Japan. He studied music at Berklee
College of Music in Boston, Massachusetts. While at Berklee he developed an interest in the music of South America and went
to live in Colombia. He spent four years there and forged many musical and personal relationships. One of the projects he
worked on while in Colombia was 'Macumbia' with composer/arranger Francisco Zumaque in which traditional, jazz and
classical music were combined. With this group he performed with the Bogota symphony orchestra to do a series of concerts
honoring the music of the most popular composer in Colombia, Lucho Bermudes. In 1986 he returned to the U.S. and his
interest expanded to the rhythms and melodies of the middle east where he studied and performed with Armenian-American
oud master Joe Zeytoonian. Since moving to New York in 1991 he has performed and recorded with many musicians such as
Ray Barretto, Carlos 'Patato' Valdes, Eliane Elias, Marc Johnson, Eddie Gomez, Randy Brecker, Dave Liebman, Anthony
Braxton, Mark Murphy, Herbie Mann, Paul Winter Consort, Rabih Abu Khalil, Erik friedlander, Paul Giger, Toshiko Akiyoshi Big
Band and Pablo Ziegler to name a few. He continues to explore multi-cultural, electronics and improvisational music with local
musicians, composers and touring all over the world. http://home.earthlink.net/%7Etakeishi

Shoko Nagai- Born in Nagoya, Japan, composer and pianist. After graduating from Berklee College of Music in 1999, she
moved to New York City and quickly established herself in the downtown jazz scene performing with such renowned artists as
John Zorn, Rasheid Ali, Miho Hatori (cibomatto), Cuong Vu, Ikue Mori, Butch Morris, Guillermo E Brown, Matana Roberts, Tom
Rainy to name a few. The Shoko Nagai Quintet which features some of New York's best musicians has performed extensively at
the BlueNote, The Stone, The Kitchen, Location One, Vision Festival as well as at other top New York clubs and concert. Nagai
released 3 differnt recordings. Nagai has performed in Finland (Tampere Jazz festival 2008), Italy (Sicily Jazz Festival 2007)
Brasil (res Festival 2007)Norway (Natt Jazz Festival 1998) in Germany (Electro music festival in Berlin 2009, Moers Jazz Festival 2006), touring in Japan, US, Switzerland, and Israel. She is also workng on a new project "Vortex" which is a free improvisation duo with piano (Shoko Nagai) and electronics (Satoshi Takeishi). They scored Japanese full featured movie called " Starfish Hotel" directed by John Williams. Also Shoko Nagai scored French featured movie called " L' Amour Cache' " conducted by Butch Morris. 2004 Grant for JazzJaunts winner. A project in which seven jazz artists will compose and premiere compositions that incorporate musical traditions from their cultural roots, spanning South Africa, Cuba, Brazil, South India, Iraq, Japan, and the Jewish Diaspora. She is curating @ The Stone in 2010. www.myspace.com/shokonagai

Elliott Sharp leads Orchestra Carbon, Tectonics, and Terraplane and has pioneered use of fractals, chaos theory, and genetics in musical composition. His collaborators have included Ensemble Modern; Qawwali singer Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan; Debbie Harry; computer artist Perry Hoberman; blues legend Hubert Sumlin; jazz greats Jack deJohnette and Sonny Sharrock; and turntablist Christian Marclay. Sharp's work was featured at New Music Stockholm 2008 and at the Frankfurt Klangbiennale 2007 with "On Corlear's Hook" for the Radio-Sinfonie Frankfurt. His music-theater work "Binibon" premiered in May 2009 at The Kitchen and he has also recently composed the score to Toni Dove's science-fiction film "Spectropia." "Doing The Don't", a feature documentary by Bert Shapiro on Sharp's work has just been released on DVD.

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Live video artist, Angie Eng revives cinepoetry with a new work in progress, Rite Ways-Every Intentional Act is a Magical Act with Thierry Madiot, master of breath and wind, inventor of instruments, trombonist who fuses improvised and contemporary music, and inovative drummer, percussionist - Satoshi Takeishi.

Angie Eng (New York/Paris) is a video artist who has presented her live video projects in numerous venues:New Museum of Contemporary Art, The Whitney, Lincoln Center video Festival, Anthology Film Archives as well as international experimental media festivals. She is reknowned for her work with The Poool, a multimedia group who combined maquettes, puppetry and analogue video tools to marry image and sound. She has collaborated with: Ron Anderson, Vincent Epplay, Yuko Fujiyama, Jon Giles, Andy Grayton, Jason Kao Hwang, Simon Hostettler, Jessica Higgins, Hoppy Kamiyama, Gabriel Latessa, Zach Layton, Jarryd Lowder, Matthew Ostrowski, Jean Jacques Palix, Zeena Parkins, Ludovic Poulet, Liminal Projects, Kyoko Kitamura, David Linton, Geoff Matters, Ikue Mori, Karine Saporta, Jane Scarpantoni, Peter Scherer, Jim Staley, Yumiko Tanaka,Keiko Uenishi, Nancy Meli Walker , David Weinstein and more.

Thierry Madiot (Paris) is a French sound artist trained as a trombonist who extends the boundaries of wind instruments, including: 30 feet telescopic tubes, digeridoo, balloons, plastic tubing, attached to an air compressor. He makes sound installations as well as 'sound massages' collaborating with dancers and improvisation musicians.

He has Improvised and composed Music with or without texts, images, dance, in solo or with for ea those musicians and artists: Frédéric Acquaviva, Sophie Agnel, Noel Akchoté, SteveArguelles, Didier Aschour, Derek Bailey, Richard Barrett, Pascal Battus, Claude Barthelemy, ChristophBaumann, Olivier Benoit, Frédéric Blondy, Jaap Blonk, Pierre Boesflug, Raymond Boni, Hélène Breschand,Hans Burgener, Don Byron, Jean-François Canape, Mathieu Chamagne, Fabrice, Laurent et Xavier Charles,Denis Charolles, Bruno Chevillon, Denis Colin, François Corneloup, Pablo Cueco, Roland Dahinden, LaurentDehors, Benoit Delbecq, Caroline Delume, Axel Dörner, Quentin Dubost, Marc Ducret, Daniel Erdmann, Jean-Christophe Feldhandler, Esther Ferrer, Alexander Frangenheim, Stéphane Garin, Anne Garrigues, OlivierGelpe, Christian Germain, François Guell, Jean-Luc Guionnet, Olivia Grandville, Kamal Hamadache, GünterHeinz, Jean-Pierre Jullian, Kristoff Kroll, Franck Lambert, Daunik Lazro, Le Quan Ninh, Urs Leimgruber, DidierLevallet, George E Lewis, Joelle Léandre, Ramon Lopez, Kamel Maad, Alain Mahé, Jean-Michel Marchetti,Lionel Marchetti, Jim Meneses, Phil Minton, Yanik Miossec, Jean-Marc Montera, Ikue Mori, Seijiro Murayama,Theo Nabicht, Michael Nick, Jérôme Noetinger, Annick Nozati, Stéphane Oliva, Guillaume Orti, Evan Parker,Didier Petit, Emmanuel Petit, Ulrich Philipp, Dominique Répécaud, Margritt Rieben, Stéphane Rives, Jean-Pierre Robert, Yves Robert, Carol Robinson, Felix Rückert, Joel Ryan, Camel Zekri, Alexander vonSchlippenbach, Jacques Siron, Alfred Spirli, Claude Tchamitchian, Patricio Villaroel, Bert Wrede, CarlosZingaro

Satoshi Takeishi, drummer, percussionist and arranger is a native of Mito, Japan. He developed an interest in the music of South America and went to live in Colombia following the invitation of a friend. He spent four years there and forged many musical and personal relationships. One of the projects he worked on while in Colombia was 'Macumbia' with composer/arranger Francisco Zumaque in which traditional, jazz and classical music were combined. With this group he performed with the Bogota symphony orchestra to do a series of concerts honoring the music of the most popular composer in Colombia, Lucho Bermudes. In 1986 he returned to Miami, U.S. where he began working as an arranger/producer as well as a performer. In 1987 he produced 'Morning Ride' for jazz flutist Nestor Torres on Polygram Records. His interest expanded to the rhythms and melodies of the middle east where he studied and performed with Armenian-American oud master Joe Zeytoonian. Since moving to New York in 1991 he has performed and recorded with many musicians such as Ray Barretto, Carlos 'Patato' Valdes, Eliane Elias, Marc Johnson, Eddie Gomez, Randy Brecker, Dave Liebman, Anthony Braxton, Mark Murphy, Herbie Mann, Paul Winter Consort, Rabih Abu Khalil, Erik Friedlander, Ned Rothenberg, Shoko Nagai, Paul Giger, Toshiko Akiyoshi Big Band, Ying String Quartet, Metamorphosen Chamber Orchestra, Dhafer Youssef, Lalo Schifrin and Pablo Ziegler to name a few. He continues to explore multi-cultural, electronics and improvisational music with local musicians and composers in New York.

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Shoko Nagai (piano, auto harp, moog), Satoshi Takeishi (Percs, electronics)


Experimental Piano/Percs duo  has been incorporating free improvisation, composition, electronics, found objects and visual elements into performances to create a unique path into the world of contemporary music. Their performances are based on stories and they create sound textures almost visible to the listener.

In this performance, they will perform new compositions based on a tale of "floating world," a world where illusion is sustained by multiple shifting elements.

Satoshi Takeishi, drummer, percussionist and arranger is a native of Mito, Japan.  He developed an interest in the music of South America and went to live in Colombia following the invitation of a friend. He spent four years there and forged many musical and personal relationships. One of the projects he worked on while in Colombia was 'Macumbia' with composer/arranger Francisco Zumaque in which traditional, jazz and classical music were combined. With this group he performed with the Bogota symphony orchestra to do a series of concerts honoring the music of the most popular composer in Colombia, Lucho Bermudes. In 1986 he returned to Miami, U.S. where he began working as an arranger/producer as well as a performer. In 1987 he produced 'Morning Ride'  for jazz flutist Nestor Torres on Polygram Records. His interest expanded to the rhythms and melodies of the middle east where he studied and performed with Armenian-American oud master Joe Zeytoonian. Since moving to New York in 1991 he has performed and recorded with many musicians such as Ray Barretto, Carlos 'Patato' Valdes, Eliane Elias, Marc Johnson, Eddie Gomez, Randy Brecker, Dave Liebman, Anthony Braxton, Mark Murphy, Herbie Mann, Paul Winter Consort, Rabih Abu Khalil, Erik Friedlander, Ned Rothenberg, Shoko Nagai, Paul Giger, Toshiko Akiyoshi Big Band, Ying String Quartet, Metamorphosen Chamber Orchestra, Dhafer Youssef, Lalo Schifrin and Pablo Ziegler to name a few. He continues to explore multi-cultural, electronics and improvisational music with local musicians and composers in New York.

Born in Nagoya, Japan, composer, accordionist and pianist Shoko Nagai has been evolving as a professional musician for fifteen years. After graduating from Berklee College of Music in 1999 she moved to New York City and quickly established herself in the downtown jazz scene performing with such renowned artists as John Zorn, Rasheid Ali, Miho Hatori (Cibo Matto), Cuong Vu, Tom Rainy, Ikue Mori, Butch Morris, Matana Roberts, Guillermo E. Brown to name a few. The Shoko Nagai Quintet which features some of New York's best musicians has performed extensively at the BlueNote, Knitting factory, The Stone, Vision Festival, and The Kitchen as well as at other top New York clubs.  Nagai has performed in Norway (Natt jazz festival) in Finland (Tampere jazz festival) in Germany (Moers jazz festival), Japan, Switzerland, Brasil (resfest), Israel, Canada ( Suoni Popolo festival) and United States( Freihofer's Jazz festival).  Her most recent project is "Vortex" which is a free improvisation duet with electronics. In 2006, she received a grant from Philadelphia Music Project  2006 Grant for JazzJaunts, a  project in which seven jazz artists will compose and premiere compositions that  incorporate musical traditions from their cultural roots, spanning South Africa, Cuba, Brazil, South India, Iraq, Japan, and the Jewish Diaspora. Recently, she has composed music for the Japanese film " Starfish Hotel " (2006) (directed by John Williams) with Satoshi Takeishi which had been shown world wide, also she worked for French film music " L'AMOUR CACHÉ"  ( 2007 ) ( Directed by Alessandro Capone) conducted by Butch Morris.

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Leaf-inspired by the art work of Kodo Okuta. The duo-plus video-featuring laptop audio/percussionist Satoshi Takeishi and pianist Shoko Nagai. The two continue to explore to the 20th century concept of "sound sculpting" alongside free improvisation and real-time audio processing. By extracting, magnifying live video manipulation by video artist Adam Kendall (Hellbender Film Projkt). www.home.earthlink.net/~takeishi