Tickets to this performance are sold out. A livestream is available free of charge at 8pm. Watch via the link below or on our YouTube page.
Join us in celebration of Ryuichi Sakamoto’s musical legacy as New York’s finest musicians come together for a tribute concert on January 17, marking what would have been his 72nd birthday. The Sakamoto Tribute Ensemble will interpret his enduring compositions with the utmost reverence, from the revolutionary Thousand Knives to the iconic sounds of the Yellow Magic Orchestra and the Oscar-winning film scores. Special guests, along with Sakamoto’s closest friends and collaborators, will share their words and music in a heartfelt tribute.
This concert is a fundraiser for the family’s foundation in his honor, Trees For Sakamoto.
Roulette Member and Patron discounts do not apply.
Presented by NYC Winter Jazzfest
Rubin Kodheli curator
Meg Okura musical director
Brice Rosenbloom producer
Anne Drummond flutes
Sam Sadigursky winds
Meg Okura violin
Rubin Kodheli cello
Daniel Mintseris keyboard/electronics
Rogerio Bocatto percussion
Yotam Ishay piano
Steve Whipple bass
+DJ Spooky, Yuka C. Honda and more special guests TBA
A livestream will be available free of charge at 8pm on the day of the performance. Watch below or on YouTube.
Paul D. Miller, aka DJ Spooky, is currently Artist in Residence at Yale University Center for Collaborative Arts and Media (2023-2024, extended). He is a composer, multimedia artist, and writer whose work engages audiences in a blend of genres, global culture, and environmental and social issues. Miller has collaborated with an array of recording artists, including Ryuichi Sakamoto, Metallica, Chuck D from Public Enemy, Steve Reich, and Yoko Ono amongst many others. His 2018 album, DJ Spooky Presents: Phantom Dancehall, debuted at #3 on Billboard Reggae.
His large-scale, multimedia performance pieces include “Rebirth of a Nation,” Terra Nova: Sinfonia Antarctica, commissioned by the Brooklyn Academy of Music, and Seoul Counterpoint, written during his 2014 residency at Seoul Institute of the Arts. His multimedia project Sonic Web premiered at San Francisco’s Internet Archive in 2019. He was the inaugural artist-in-residency at the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s The Met Reframed, 2012-2013.
In 2014, he was named National Geographic Emerging Explorer. He produced Pioneers of African American Cinema, a collection of the earliest films made by African American directors, released in 2015. Miller’s artwork has appeared in the Whitney Biennial, The Venice Biennial for Architecture, the Miami/Art Basel fair, and many other museums and galleries.
His books include the award-winning Rhythm Science, published by MIT Press in 2004; Sound Unbound, an anthology about digital music and media; The Book of Ice, a visual and acoustic portrait of the Antarctic, and; The Imaginary App, on how apps changed the world. His writing has been published by The Village Voice, The Source, and Artforum, and he was the first founding Executive Editor of Origin Magazine.
Yuka C. Honda is an electronics instrumentalist, composer, and producer (though she enjoys calling herself a “decomposer”). She often performs solo electronic music as EUCADEMIX. She calls her music “Sensory Music.”
Yuka is primarily known for founding the band Cibo Matto in the 1990s. They released two LPs and one EP on Warner Brothers Records. As a producer, she has produced albums by Sean Lennon and Martha Wainwright, among others.
Recently, Yuka created a multi-media opera titled “No Revenge Necessary,” which tells the story of a post-apocalypse world in which humans survive and coexist with A.I. entities. It was performed at National Sawdust (Brooklyn, NY) in 2019, where Yuka was an Artist In Residence.
She has won multiple awards including the London International Animation Festival’s Best Sound Awards for the music she composed for the animation film “Anxious Body” by Yoriko Mizushiri, which premiered at Cannes 2021 Director’s Fortnight. Other current projects include a duo with her husband Nels Cline (Wilco) called CUP, and also a duo with YoshimiO (Boredoms, OOIOO) called Mycorrhiza.
