As much a solo percussion album as a collection of large-scale compositions, Tatsuya Nakatani created hundreds of recordings of his collection of gongs, meticulously capturing each instrument's voice and arranging them into seven large works, maintaining the character of each instrument as material for these wonderfully dramatic and resonant works of silence, space and texture.
Format: CD Condition: New Released: 2020 Country: USA Packaging: Digipack Recorded at Nakatani-Kobo, in Truth or Consequences, New Mexico, during winter of 2018 through Spring of 2019, by Tatsuya Nakatani. Mastered by James Plotkin.
"I have been developing my understanding of the sonic range and potential of the bowed gong over the past 23 years of live performances. The compositions I am creating for my large ensemble bowed gong project, the Nakatani Gong Orchestra, are based in my idea of arranging the vibrations into formations. Silence, space and textures are key to my philosophy of making music. Working outside of academic theory and the Western note system opens many possibilities for me in sound. For these records, I created hundreds of separate recordings of each gong and all of their different voices (vibrations), then I arranged them on the computer to build the composition. Each sound maintains it's true character, and is not digitally altered."-Tatsuya Nakatani