Calendar - Miya Masaoka

Governors Island, Harvestworks Residency and Commission. Building 10a, Nolan Park, Soft opening June 2022

Resonant frequencies meet parabolic surfaces made from clay of the earth, animals of the sea, and met with the activity of human toil. (more…)

John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship 2021

April 2021: Guggenheim fellowship

Miya has been named one of the awardees of the 2021 John S. Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship for Musical Composition, given to individuals who have demonstrated exceptional creative ability in the arts. For a full list of 2021 awardees, see here.

EMPAC COMMISSION 2021

Masaoka has been awarded a commission to compose a new work for the legendary EMPAC Wave Field Synthesis Array, a system endowed with an unbelievable number of 558-channel discrete loudspeakers.

When I Was A Plant v. 2 (Spanish Speaking plant, with climate data)

2019 Toronto Biennale, Main Exhibition space
November 14-December 1, 2019, curated by Myung-Sun Kim and Maiko Tanaka.
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When I Was a Plant (for multiple plants + performers)

November 14, 2019. Artist Talk, Post Vocal Performance, Tellings, Toronto Biennial.
https://torontobiennial.org/programs/miya-masaoka-sonifying-the-plants/

I Am A Plant (response in image + sound)

Materials: philodendron, electronics, wire, video, sound, human interaction. Gutenberg Sound Art Academy, Mainz University, Germany, August, 2019. (more…)

New Materialist Approaches To Sound Conference

October 19, 9:00 AM -11:00 PM
632 w 125th St.,Prentis Hall, NYC
Keynote: Nina Eidsheim
Masaoka: Moderator for the Panel “Theories,” Eric Lewis, Ted Gordon. presentations by Lee Cannon-Brown, Jana Marie Perkins, Jacques Vest, Callum, Blackmore, Christina Katopodis, Vivian Luong, Amara Lawson-Chavanu, Katie J. Hickerson, Florian Walch, Seth Cluett. Organized by Sam Yulsman, Marc Hannaford, Jessie Cox
https://music.columbia.edu/news/new-materialist-approaches-to-sound-conference-call-for-proposals

Transonic Orchestra/ Gene Coleman

October 12, 2019, 6:30-9:00
Aspect 281, 990 Spring Garden Street (East Lot)
Philadelphia, PA
https://sitesoundphl.org/events/installation-performances-night-2/

Thin Edge Music Series, Partial Eclipse for String Quartet

An evening of chamber works by Tōru Takemitsu, Miya Masaoka + others
Sept 20th, 2019 8:00pm
918 Bathurst, Ontario, Canada
https://www.thinedgenewmusiccollective.com/events

MZM: Myra Melford, Zeena Parkins, Miya Masaoka

September 13 Friday, 8:30 PM, The Stone @ The New School
55 W 13th St, New York, NY 10011
http://thestonenyc.com/calendar

Gutenberg Sound Art Academy 2019

19 – 25 August 2019 in Mainz, Germany
LEITNER – MASAOKA – KIEFER
From mid to end of August 2019, an international sound art summer school will be held in Mainz, Germany. Invited by Prof. Peter Kiefer, two of the most internationally renowned sound artists today will teach master classes for artists and students from all over the world. The course will be delivered by Bernhard Leitner (Vienna), Miya Masaoka (New York) and Peter Kiefer (Mainz). The program will include theoretical sessions with experts in the field in order to facilitate exchange and debate among the participants.2019, 19 – 25 August
–Who can apply?
Sound artists, young professionals, scholars, students and graduates of art, music, design and architecture-related courses of study, etc.
–tuition fee active participation € 450
passive participants (auditors) € 220 (there are still places available)
https://artresearchsound.wordpress.com/gutenberg-sound-art-academy-2019/

Singing River So To Speak*

July 6, 2019
Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity, Canada
Ensemble Evolution; Commissioned work, conducted by Steve Schick; flute, clarinet, bassoon, piano, percussion, violin, viola, cello.
*based on the poem by Maya Angelou, “On The Pulse of Morning”

Listen Ahead: Ear Hut

Listen Ahead consists of a series of traffic signs, and the Ear Hut, a small structure that is designed to privilege the ear over the eye, or the sense of listening over sight. There are ear-level openings in the walls allowing sounds from the outside environment into the inside. A fluidity of the interior/exterior carry meaning beyond the walls, and can be contemplated upon as those who enter can sit, relax and think.

https://www.caramoor.org/music/sonic-innovations/

Park Ave Armory Artist Studio: UPDATED PROGRAM

Programmatic Updates to Miya Masaoka’s Armory Performances (including interactive work with plants)

The program for Miya Masaoka’s upcoming performances at Park Avenue Armory on Wednesday, March 13, have been updated. In place of The Long Arc of Time Noh opera, the program will now include a number of new works by Masaoka, performed with her close collaborators and colleagues. The evening will present the premiere of Songs of Lost Dreams, a new work written for soprano Kamala Sankaram and percussionist Chris Nappi. The Momenta Quartet will perform Survival, along with guest violinist Clara Kim, and bassists Robert Black, James Ilgenfritz, Shayna Dulberger, and Zach Rowden join us to perform Four Moons of Pluto. Masaoka will also perform her work Don’t Kill Plants (Leaves are Murder, Meat is Murder). The program concludes with a performance of States of Being, States of Becoming by S.E.M. Ensemble, with Petr Kotik conducting. http://armoryonpark.org/programs_events/detail/artists_studio_miya_masaoka

JACK Quartet, Premiere: Partial Eclipse

April 30, 2019, 8:00 PM
Gould Memorial Library Rotunda
2155 University Avenue
Bronx, NY 10453

Works for String Quartet by Chris Otto, rags for 3 string quartets (2 pre-recorded and 1 live)
Miya Masaoka, Partial Eclipse, commissioned by Jack Quartet (Premiere of Final Version)
https://www.facebook.com/events/378286372779047/

S.E.M. Ensemble, Peter Kotik conducting

December 19, 2018
Paula Cooper Gallery
524 W. 26th St.
8:00 PM

Looking Back & Onward: SEM in 1986 & 2018

States of Being, States of Becoming composed for the SEM ensemble by Miya Masaoka with Margaret Lancaster, Chris Nappi, Liuh-wen Ting, Roberta Michel, Ben Neill, Theo Van Dyck, Gergana Haralapieva, Caleb van der Swaagh, David Cossin, Juan Herrera.
Other works by Michael Shumacher, Peter Kotik, Ben Neil
https://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/3910665?fbclid=IwAR3Qq-gBWTHe_gf8LLlM8CTsNOqpy84jKwqQBsa9PRrs3R01oTDGzhXcx14

Saout L’Mellah

November 29-Dec. 8, 2018
Morocco Sound Residency and Exhibition at UNESCO protected city of El Jadida, Morocco
Site specific performance and objects Manifesto, and is a curator for Pikkala, a project of Mo Baala
Curated by Limiditi, Younes Baba-Ali and Aude Tournaye

Arete Gallery

November 14, 2018
8:00 PM 67 West St. #103
Brooklyn, NY 11222
Machine/Body Solo performances by: Miya Masaoka, Samita Sinha, Erykah Dellenbach, Muyassar Kurdi

Nuyorcian Poets Café

November 10, 2018
236 East 3rd St., NYC 10009
Borrowed Light; Innovation in Ancient Arts
Performances by Miya Masaoka, Shoko Tamai, Miyu Tamamura curated by Anne Patsch

Interpretations Series at Roulette

Thursday, September 27, 2018
Shared evening: (set order TBD) One set: Works by Miya Masaoka
Other set: Duo Robin Hayward and Christopher Williams
–Five Moons of Pluto: For five contrabass players,
Robert Black, James Ilgenfritz and 3 other TBA
–New piece with string quartet TBA
Roulette, Brooklyn, NY
Roulette: Interpretations

Fridman Gallery 5th Anniversary Festival

Thursday, September 20th, 2018
Ka Baird
Tamar Ettun, Miya Masaoka
Younes Baba-Ali
Fridman Gallery, 287 Spring St. New York, NY
https://www.fridmangallery.com/events

Hans Tammen’s San Francisco Third Eye Orchestra

August 10, 2018
Center for New Music, San Francisco
Miya Masaoka, Monochord, Suki O’Kane, drums, Ben Sabey, Moog, Scott Looney, pno, Roger Kim, gtr, Matt Ingalls, clr, Dafna Naphtali, voc and electronics, Steve Adams, saxophones, Steve Horwitz, bass

Montalvo Lucas Residency Artist Program

August 6-28, 2018
Montalvo, California
Montalvo Arts: Lucas Artist Residency

Darmstadt Internationalen Ferienkursen für Neue Musik: Defragmentation (July 20)

July 20, 2018
Architectures in Sound, (Schader Forum)
Panel with Miya Masaoka, Marina Rosenfeld, Sofia Jernber, Christabel Stirling
Lichtenbergschule
Ludwigshöhstraße 105, 64285 Darmstadt
Internationales Musikinstitut: Darmstadt

Darmstadt Internationalen Ferienkursen für Neue Musik: Defragmentation (July 19)

July 19, 2018
Multi-Diasporic Sound Art (Schader Forum)
with Miya Masaoka, Raven Chacon and George Lewis
Lichtenbergschule
Ludwigshöhstraße 105, 64285 Darmstadt
Internationales Musikinstitut: Darmstadt

New Music On The Point (NMOP)

July 14-19, 2018
–Five Moons of Pluto with Faculty member Robert Black
–Heliotropism for 6 players
Miya Masaoka is a “master artist” conducting Masterclasses, lessons, artist talk and performances
Point CounterPoint 1361 Hooker Road Leicester, VT 05733
https://pointcp.com/new-music-on-the-point/

Duo concert with Tony Brevan (saxophones) and Miya Masaoka (21 string koto)

May 6, 2018
Tectonics Festival, Glasgow, Scotland
Fruitmarket
https://www.bbc.co.uk/events/e26v9r

BBC Scottish Symphony and the Glasgow Chamber Choir

May 5, 2018
Symphonic Orchestra of The Movement Of Things (premiere) by Miya Masaoka,
Conducted by Ilan Volkov
Opening with soloists Nathalie Forget, ondes martenot, Deborah Walker, cello and Silvia Tarozzi, violin and Hiko Hiko, percussion dress and vocals
Tectonics Festival 2018
Glasgow City Halls, Glasgow, Scotland
https://www.bbc.co.uk/music/artists/bb284106-a18d-4f8c-9847-1dce9b8874df

Columbia University: Daughters of Harlem

April 28, 2018
Teaching sound field recording and production to teenage youth, with performance
Prentis Hall, Columbia University
https://music.columbia.edu/events/for-the-daughters-of-harlem-working-in-sound-workshop

Artist Talk, New York University

April 18, 2018
Guest of Suzanne Cussick: Gender and Music
New York University, New York

MoMA PS1

April 1, 2018
“Vaginated Chairs”
Individually tuned, sounding and vibrating chairs are installed with participants wearing internal vaginal microphones which are broadcast to the audience
Talkat Bookspace, MoMA PS1 Sound Installation/performance
https://www.moma.org/calendar/events/4261

Previously, in December, 2018 Vaginated Chairs was exhibited at Kunst Museum Bonn, Germany

2 Duos with Jennifer Walshe, David Toop, London, UK

March 16, 2018
Jennifer Walshe, text, vocals.
Miya Masaoka: Copper sheet, cans and objects, Ichi-gen-kin
Second Set
Duo with David Toop, guitar, electronics
Miya Masaoka, Ichi-gen-kin
Cafe Oto, London, UK
https://www.cafeoto.co.uk/events/miya-masaoka-jennifer-walshe-david-toop/

Eavesdropping Symposium at Oxford house, London UK

March 15-16, 2018
“Re-Imagining Sound, Perception and the Vagina: ”Vaginated Chairs”
Eavesdropping Symposium at Oxford house
Derbyshire St, Bethnal Green, London E2 6HG, UK
https://www.eavesdropping.london/symposium/T

Darmstadt Summer Courses: Sound Art Screening

July 18, 2018
Adventures of the Solitary Bee, a film short by Miya Masaoka
http://internationales-musikinstitut.de/en/ferienkurse/festival/programm/defragmentation-musicscreening-18/

Heliotropism for Large Ensemble

Performed at New Music On the Point, Vermont; Zack Di Lello, trumpet, Jessie Nucho, flute, Brian Stuligross, violin, Cindy Lan, viola, Louise King, Cello, Will Yager, contrabass, Cole Blouin, guitar, Alec Whiting, bowed and fingered koto

The Long Arc of Time

The Long Arc of Time, a new intermedia Noh opera composed, produced and directed by Miya Masaoka; poet Tracie Morris was commissioned to write the story and libretto Grey: A Tale of Time;

Artist Talk: Tyler School of the Arts, Temple University

Wednesday, September 13, 2017 6:00 PM
Tyler Painting, Drawing & Sculpture Department of the Tyler School of Art of Temple University Presents: Critical Dialogues Series Fall 2017
Miya Masaoka, Re-imagining Sound, Perception & the Vagina: The Vagina is the Third Ear
Tyler School of the Arts, Temple University, 2001 N 13ths Street, Philadelphia PA 19122
https://tyler.temple.edu/events/critical-dialogue-series-miya-masaoka

Barge Music, Premiere: Kathleen Supove

Friday, September 1, 2017 8:00 PM
Here and Now Series, Labor Day Festival
A Celebration of Contemporary Women Composers by Women Performers
Greenland To The East: dedicated to Kathleen Supove, Solo Piano
Other works by Paolo Prestini and Missy Mazzoli
http://bargemusic.org

Montalvo Center for the Arts, Italiante Garden

Friday, August 25, 2017 6:00 PM
Now Hear This! Miya Masaoka plays with Hans Tammen on sonic sculpture by Hermani, as part of Artist in Residency at Montalvo. Sonic works by Teraneh Hermani and Hugh Livingston
15400 Montalvo Rd, Sarasota, CA
http://montalvoarts.org/events/open_access_0817/twitter/

MZM CD Release Party

August 1, 2017 8:30 PM
MZM, Myra Melford, piano, Zeena Parkins, harps, Miya Masaoka, kotos
The Stone. Ave. C and 2nd St.
thestonenyc.com

The Stone, NYC

Sunday, July 16, 2017 8:30 PM
Trio: Ha-Yang Kim (cello),Miya Masaoka (koto, electronics) Stefan Poetzsch (violin/viola/electronics)
http://www.thestonenyc.com

Rubin Museum, New York City

June 16, 2017 -January 8, 2018
Curated by Risha Lee, Special Thanks to Spencer Yeh
The World is Sound: Eliane Radique, Laetitia Sonami, Bob Bielecki
Columbia Sound Art MFA: 60” sound installations are throughout the gallery
Elevator sound: Voices of Masaoka, Sonami, Bielecki and others
rubinmuseum.org

Issue Project Room

June 2, 2017
Duo: Chris Pitsiokos & Miya Masaoka
22 Boerum Place, Brooklyn, NY 11201
http://issueprojectroom.org/event/chris-pitsiokos-miya-masaoka

McGill University, Montreal, Canada

June 1-2 2017
Concert in Memory of Pauline Oliveros
Premiere: Vagina Music For Vagina Ears (for ensemble) by Masaoka
And a host of performances, talks, exhibitions
https://www.mcgill.ca/library/channels/event/still-listening-exhibit-works-honour-pauline-oliveros-268465

Vision Festival 2017

May 30, 2017
Vision Festival: String Stories
Miya Masaoka, koto, Joelle Leandre, bass, Robert Dick, Flutes

Roulette, A Shomyo-Noh chamber opera reading

May 10, 2017
A Line Becomes A Circle: A Shomyo-Noh chamber opera reading composed by Miya Masaoka, Libretto: Shiki Masaoka (1867-1902)
Masaoka’s Shomyo-Noh chamber opera, with text from Haiku fragments of the dying poet, Shiki Masaoka, is both sparse and rich; a weaving of bel canto opera with Shomyo and Noh vocalizations and percussion. Masaoka recently returned from studying Noh on a Fulbright to Japan in 2016.
Shomyo-Noh singer Makiko Sakurai flies from Japan and Soprano Ann Moss from San Francisco. A Line Becomes A Circle was recently performed at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, and Theater of Yugen in San Francisco. The performance is one hour.
Composer, koto, Noh vocals, movement: Miya Masaoka
Shomyo chant vocals, Noh vocals, movement: Makiko Sakurai:
Soprano: Ann Moss
Percussionist: Chris Nappi
Roulette, 509 Atlantic Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11217, USA

Gallery 456, Soho, NYC

May 7, 2017 7:00 PM
Solo set on the Electric One String
And later joined by Charmaine Lee, vocals
Chinese American Arts Council (Gallery 456) in SoHo
456 Broadway # 3, New York, NY 10013

Spectrum: Masaoka – Vitkova – Ilgenfritz – Hein

Friday, March 24, 2017 19:00 or 20:00
Miya Masaoka – one-stringed koto, preperations
Lucie Vítková – accordion
James Ilgenfritz – doubelbass
Nicola L. Hein – guitar
121 Ludlow St, New York, NY 10002
http://www.spectrumnyc.com

The Stone, NYC

March 22, 2017 9:00 PM
Robert Dick, Flutes, Miya Masaoka, koto, Ken Filiano 9:00 set
www.thestonenyc.com

National Sawdust Inn-Fest

March 11, 2017 7:00 PM
Triangle of Resistance
Jennifer Choi, Vln, Melissa Tong, Vln, Lev “ljova” Zhurbin, Vla, Alex Waterman, Cello, Ben Vida, Analog modular synth, Satoshi Takeishi, Japanese Percussion, Miya Masaoka, koto, Gordon Beeferman, conductor
Many exciting artists on Innova Records
80 N 6th St, Brooklyn, NY 11249

University of Maine, concert, studio visits

March 1-2 2017 7:00 PM
The Intermedia MFA Tuesdays at the IMRC Lecture Series
http://intermediamfa.org/events-2/lectures2017/

The LeRoy Neiman Gallery, Columbia University

February 23, 2017 1:00 PM
Complex Issues: Triangle of Resistance
Miya Masaoka, Sound Arts, in conversation with Tom Kalin, Film
MFA Sound Arts Director Miya Masaoka discusses the album Triangle of Resistance, critically acclaimed by the Wall Street Journal for its “deeply expressive hybrid style,” including its musical and sound structures, timbres, and the creative process derived from the experience of incarceration of her family during WWII in the Japanese-American Internment camps.
This conversation with Tom Kalin, Film, explores political hysteria, otherness, and how the trauma of these experiences were translated into sound.
Complex Issues explores difference, visibility, and representation through recent work by faculty of Columbia University and Columbia University School of the Arts in particular. On a monthly basis, conversations invite challenging questions of racial, ethnic, gender, economic, sexual, religious, and cultural complexity, and how they are articulated across discipline and genre today.
Columbia University School of the Arts, The LeRoy Neiman Gallery, 310 Dodge Hall
arts.columbia.edu

Music From Japan, Scandanavia House, Victor Borge Hall

February 19, 2017 5:30 PM

Miya Masaoka: Improvisations: Shakuhachi master Akikazu Nakamura, Miya Masaoka, koto, Brad Garton, computerNew Directions in Japanese Contemporary Music, curated by Fuyoko Fukunaka. Also works by Yoshiaki Onishi and other composers. Momenta String Quartet, Elizabeth Brown also performing.

Scandanavia House, 58 Park Avenue, New York City

Brown University: Music Now, A Forum for Contemporary Music

February 17, 2017 1:00 PM
Composer, sound and performance artist Miya Masaoka will be speaking about her recent work
Free and open to the public
Brown University, Orwig Music Building, Room 109
https://www.brown.edu/academics/music/events/music-now-miya-masaoka

Park Avenue Armory

Monday, February 6, 2017
Memorial for Pauline Oliveros
Vagina Dialogues
Installations, Meditations, Stories, and Performances 4:00 PM – 8:00 PM
Evening Concert 8:00 PM

Wall Street Journal

Triangle of Resistance review 2016

Fridman Gallery, New York

January 12, 8:00 PM
New Ears Festival 2017: A Tribute to Pauline Oliveros
Vagina Dialogues, Vagina Listening Session
16 tuned metal chairs, each to a specific frequency
2nd set: Byron Westbrook and Ursula Scherrer
http://www.fridmangallery.com/

Roulette

December 15, 2016 8:00 PM
CD Release
Ingrid Laubrock, Tyshawn Sorey, Craig Taborn, Sam Pluta, Peter Evans, Miya Masaoka
Roulette, 509 Atlantic Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11217

Edgefest, Ann Arbor

November 27, 2016 9:00 PM
Ingrid Laubrock’s Serpentines
Ingrid Laubrock, Tyshawn Sorey, Craig Taborn, Sam Pluta, Peter Evans, Miya Masaoka, Dan Peck
Edgefest, Kerrytown Concert House
Ann Arbor, Michigan, the Jazz House
http://www.kerrytownconcerthouse.com/index.php/events/event/ingrid_laubrocks_serpentines/

Qubit Sound Arts Show

November 20, 2016

A Long Way To F#, 12 channel sound installation, 12-hour duration

Live Performance with Miya Masaoka and Lucie Vitkova

Harlem, 104th and 1st Ave

New York, New York

ICA, Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia

September 22, 2016 8:00 PM
A Line Becomes A Circle, A new chamber opera composed by Miya Masaoka
Libretto: Shiki Masaoka
Makiko Sakurai, Shomyo singer from Japan
Ann Moss, Soprano
Joel Davel, Percussion
Miya Masaoka, Koto
ICA, Museum of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia
118 S. 36th St., Philadelphia, PA 19104
http://endlessshout.icaphila.org/george-lewis

Theater of Yugen, NOH Space

September 19-20, 2016 8:00 PM
A Line Becomes A Circle, A new chamber opera composed by Miya Masaoka
Libretto: Shiki Masaoka
Makiko Sakurai, Shomyo singer from Japan
Ann Moss, Soprano
Joel Davel, Percussion
Miya Masaoka, Koto
2840 Mariposa St., San Francisco

NIME, Keynote address

August 6-7, 2016
Keynote address
Installation, 24 channels, Feel It, The Cube, Virginia Tech
Brisbane, Australia

Bard College: Vagina Dialogues

July 7, 2016 8:00 PM
Vagina Dialogues
10 Vagina, non normative, queer vaginas encouraged to participate
Bard Hall, Bard College
Annandale-On-Hudson, NY

NAS Gallery, Tokyo

June 5, 2016 7:00 PM
Installation Sound with Natasha Diggs performing
Free, wine reception

Koen Dori Classics Concert Venue, Japan

May 23, 2016 19:30
Duo with Michiyo Yagi, Miya Masaoka, Koto Summit
Tokyo Yamate Church B1, 19-5 Udawa-Cho, Shibuya

Kunitachi College of Music, Japan

May 12, 2016 2:40 PM-4:10 PM
Lecture
Kunitachi College of Music
Building 2, room 05

Airegin • エアジン Yokohama, Japan

4/21(木) • Thursday, April 21, 2016 19:30
Trio: Miya Masaoka koto (NYC), Gianni Gebbia (Sicily) sax, Marcos Fernandes percussion
横浜市中区住吉5-60 • 045-641-9191
http://airegin.yokohama/index.html

Pit Inn, Japan

April 16, 2016
Trio: Yukari, Flute, Tamaya, drums, Miya, koto
Shinjuku Pt Inn
Shinjuku 5 chome higashi no aida and Sinjuku 3 chome

MET Breuer

March 8, 2016
Duo with Latasha Diggs
MET Breuer
945 Madison Ave, New York, NY 10021

Renssaelaer Polytechnic Institute

March 1, 2016 4:00 PM
Artist Talk, iEar presents Miya Masaoka
Troy, NY

George Lewis curates Thomas Buckner, Earl Howard, Oliver Lake, Michael Lytle, Miya Masaoka, Ikue Mori, Andrea Parkins, Lucie Vítková

Tuesday, February 9, 2016
To celebrate the release of the archival CD The Kitchen Improvises: 1976–1983 on Orange Mountain Music, composer George Lewis curates an evening of performances by Thomas Buckner (voice), Earl Howard (alto saxophone and electronics), Oliver Lake (saxophones), Lewis (electronics, trombone), Michael Lytle (clarinets), Miya Masaoka (koto and electronics), Ikue Mori (electronics), Andrea Parkins (piano), and Lucie Vítková (accordion and voice), inspired by that flowering of hybridity on the downtown New York music scene.
The Kitchen
512 W 19th St, New York, NY 10011
http://thekitchen.org/event/george-lewis-the-kitchen-improvises-1976-1983

MZM: Myra, Zeena, Miya

January 23, 2016 8:00 PM
Myra Melford (piano) Zeena Parkins (electric harp) Miya Masaoka (koto and electronics)
CNMAT Center for New Music and Audio Technologies
1750 Arch St, Berkeley, CA

Princeton Composition Colloquium 2015-2016

December 10, 2015 4:30 PM
Talk with Miya Masaoka
Princeton University, Department of Music
PM Woolworth 102

DUO Jane Ira Bloom and Miya Masaoka

December 7, 2015 8:00 PM
SLM Ensemble: Solo and Chamber Works for Peace
Jane Ira Bloom (saxophones) and Miya Masaoka (koto)
Also on the bill: Ray Anderson, Samir Chatterjee,
David Taylor, Zafer Tawil, Refuge by Sarah Weaver
Cell Theater 338 W. 23rd St, NYC

Sons Du Champs, Network of Energy Premiere

Thursday, November 19, 2015 7:00 PM
A concert of rare musical works by Marcel Duchamp, and original works by Miya Masaoka based on Duchamp’s ideas of sound, chance, and movement. With a cast of musicians from New York and San Diego, and members of the inimitable Red Fish Blue Fish, Masaoka (koto) is joined by Mark Dresser (bass), Andrew Drury (percussion),Kjell Nordeson (percussion), Madison Greenstone (clarinet), Stephanie Richards(trumpet), and Sean Dowgray (percussion).
San Diego Museum of Art, James S. Copley Auditorium
http://www.sdmart.org

A Line Becomes A Circle (excerpt)

Saturday, November 14, 2015 8:00 PM
Miya Masaoka solo Koto, Voice, Electronics
Mildred Sainer Pavillion
New Music New College, Sarasota, FL

A Long Way to F#

November 11-14, 2015
Sound Installation A Long Way to F# for twelve speakers
Artist: Miya Masaoka
Jane Bancroft Cook Library, New College of Florida, Sarasota, FL

The Stone, NYC

October 13, 2015 8:00 PM
Miya Masaoka, James Ilgenfritz (bass), Thomas Heberer (trumpet)
The Stone, NYC

Cornelia Street Café: Wong, Masaoka, Wooley

October 12, 2015
Theresa Wong (cello), Masaoka (koto), Nate Wooley (trumpet)
Cornelia Street Café
29 Cornelia St, New York, NY 10014
www.corneliastreetcafe.com

US Premiere, Four Moons of Pluto

October 8, 2015 9:30 PM
Four Moons of Pluto for solo double bass
Composed by Masaoka, performed by James Ilgenfritz
Wounded Galaxies Festival, Bloomington, Indiana
woundedgalaxiesfest.com

Sarah Weaver’s Cycles of Awakening

October 8, 2015 8:00 PM
with Sarah Weaver, conductor, Jen Shyu, Robert Dick, Mark Dresser, Jane Ira Bloom, Miya Masaoka, Rebekah Heller, Oliver Lake, Ned Rothenberg, David Taylor, Julie Ferrara, James Zollar, Ray Anderson, George Ziadeh, Ursel, Ursel Schlicht, Gerry Hemingway
Roulette
509 Atlantic Ave, Brooklyn
http://roulette.org

Rose, Evans, Masaoka at the Stone

October 6, 2015
Masaoka (koto), Peter Evans (trumpet) Jon Rose (violin)
The Stone, NYC 10:00 PM
www.thestonenyc.com

World Premiere: Four Moons of Pluto, Prague, CZ

August 31st, 2015 7:00 PM
James Ilgenfritz premieres Four Moons of Pluto for double bass
composer: Miya Masaoka
Shared evening with Lukas Ligeti
Punctum, 27 Krasova, Prague, Czech Republic

Duo: Miya Masaoka + Al Margolis

August 9, 2015 8:30
koto and electronics
Why Not Bistro
14 Christopher St, New York, 10014

Gerry Hemingway, Reggie Workman, Masaoka: Brew #2

July 31, 2015 8:00 PM
The Stone, NYC
http://www.thestonenyc.com

Vision Festival

July 11, 2015 6:30 PM
Ingrid Laubrock Sextet: Laubrock, Tyshawn Sorrey, Dan Peck, Craig Taborn, Sam Pluta, Miya MasaokaJudson Church, 55 Washington Sq. South.
artsforart.org

Gugak National Center, Seoul, Korea

June 27, 2015
Masaoka’s premiere of her composition “Transparent” for Geomungo and Janggu
Performed by master Korean musicians of the National Gugak Orchestra:
Geomungo: Park Young Seung, Janggu: Kim Tae Jung
Tel: +82-2-580-3054
2364 Nambusunhwanno, Seocho-gu, Seoul, Korea

Trio with Andrew Drury, Larry Ochs

May 30, 2015 9:00 PM
Soup and Sound
292 Lefferts Ave. Brooklyn, NY 11225
http://www.andrewdrury.com

Duo with Robert Dick, Miya Masaoka

May 13, 2015 10:00 AM
Lighthouse For the Blind
15 West 65 Street
New York, NY 10023

American Composers Orchestra Gala

May 11, 2015
ACO Benefit Gala at the Tribeca Rooftop
Solo Performance, koto
Performers include Uri Caine and others

Look and Listen Festival

May 1, 2015 8:00 PM
Miya Masaoka, solo koto and electronics
BRIC House, Brooklyn NY
http://www.lookandlisten.org

Duo: Miya Masaoka + Joe McPhee

April 31, 2015 8:00 PM
The Clemente at the Abrazo Interno Gallery
107 Suffolk Street
New York, NY 10002

Lukas Ligeti New Group

April 5, 2015 8:00 PM
Lukas Ligeti, drums, Vincent Chancey, French Horn, Daniel Levin, Cello, Guillermo Gregorio, Clarinet, Miya Masaoka, koto
The Stone, NYC
http://www.thestonenyc.com

Switch, New York University

March 27, 2015 3:30
Society of Women in Technology
Solo koto and electronics
NYU, 35 west 4th street, 6th floor

Trio: Myra Melford, Mary Halverson, Miya Masaoka

March 25, 2015 10:00 PM
Myra Melford, piano, Mary Halverson, guitar, Miya Masaoka, koto
The Stone, NYC

Other Minds 20th Anniversary Festival

Saturday, March 7th, 2015 8:00 PM
Twins Peeking at Koto. Pauline Oliveros, Composer.
World Premiere.
Pauline Oliveros, accordion; Frode Haltli, accordion; Miya Masaoka, koto
SFJAZZ Center, San Francisco
https://www.otherminds.org

Other Minds 20th Anniversary Festival

Friday, March 6th, 2015 8:00 PM
Miya Masaoka, composer
String Quartet No.2 “Tilt” (2015, world premiere)
Del Sol String QuartetConcert includes Maja Ratkje and other composers
SFJAZZ Center, San Francisco
http://otherminds.org

Black Lives Matter Pop Up Series

Sunday, January 25, 2015 8:00 PM
Duo with Robert Dick, Flutes
Clemente, 2nd Fl. Abrazo Interno Gallery
107 Suffolk St, NYC
http://www.artsforart.org

Soup and Salad House Concert, Brooklyn

Jan. 23, 2015 9:00 PM
Miya Masaoka koto, Ken Filiano bass, Andrew Drury drums
292 Lefferts Ave. Brooklyn, NY 11225 $15 suggested donation
http://www.andrewdrury.com

The Stone

Dec. 13, 2014 10:00 PM
Guitarist Fred Frith in duo with Miya Masaoka
The Stone
http://www.thestonenyc.com

Le Poisson Rouge

Nov. 4, 2014
Terry Riley’s In C (1964) Presented by Darmstadt Essential Repertoire and LPR
features members of Ensemble LPR, Hotel Elefant, Joan La Barbara, Elliott Sharp,
Nick Hallett, John King, Masaoka and many other musicians.
http://lepoissonrouge.com/lpr_events/terry-rileys-in-c

Spectrum Gallery: Shared evening with Pamela Z

Nov. 1, 2014 9:30 PM
Composer/performers Pamela Z (voice & electronics) and Miya Masaoka (koto & electronics) will perform solo and duo works in a shared concert of experimental music
121 Ludlow, Second Floor, New York, New York 10002

ibeam

October 7, 2014 9:15
Fay Victor, vocals, Jason Hwang, violin, Miya Masoaka, koto, Special Guest: Percussion, vocals: Djaduk Ferianto
1st set: Ken Filiano performing solo bass.
168 7th Street
Brooklyn, NY 11215
http://ibeambrooklyn.com

Robert Dick and Miya Masaoka Duo

Sept. 3, 2014 8:15 PM
Spectrum
121 Ludlow St, NY
http://spectrumnyc.com

Channeling Scelsi: with Italian channeler Carlo Costa.

Channeling Scelsi: with Italian channeler Carlo Costa.
This new work is an interpretation of Scelsi’s 1965 composition Ygghur originally written for cello. Performed on two 13 string kotos by Akiko Sasaki and Miya Masaoka.

Hagenfesten, Sweden

July 31-August 2, 2014
Miya Masaoka: solo koto and electronics
Hagenfesten Festival, Dala-Floda, Sweden
http://www.hagenfesten.se

Robert Dick and Miya Masaoka

April 28, 2014 7:00 PM
Duet concert with Robert Dick (flutes), Miya Masaoka (koto), Alain Kirili, (sculpture), remarks by David Cohen
Location: Alan Kirili and Ariane Lopez-Huici
17 White St., Apt. 14 A, New York, NY 10013

Firehouse Space, Williamsburg

April 10, 2014 9:00 PM
Lisa Messacappa (bass), Jason Hwang (violin), Sara Schoenberg Bassoon), Masaoka (koto)
246 Frost St., Brooklyn, 11211
http://thefirehousespace.org

Sarah Weaver, Stony Brook University

April 6, 2014 10:00 PM
Universal Synchrony Music, Volume 2
Ray Anderson, trombone, Miya Masaoka, koto, Min Xiao-Fen, pipa and voice, Doug Van Nort, computer and electronics, Sarah Weaver, conductor
http://sarahweaver.org

University of Maryland, Recital Hall

March 6, 2014
Miya Masaoka: Solo koto and electronics. 8:00 PM
UMBC
http://my.umbc.edu/events/23218

ABC-No Rio Masahiko Kono

March 2, 2014 7:30 PM
Masahito Kono, trombone, percussion, Stan Nishimura, trombone, Masaoka, koto,
156 Rivington St, New York, NY 10002

The Cleveland Museum of Art, Transformer Station

Feb. 16, 2014 7:30 PM
Miya Masaoka: Solo koto and electronics
Transformer Station
1460 West 29 Street, Cleveland, OH 44113
http://www.clevelandart.org/events/music-and-performances/miya-masaoka

Yerba Buena Center for the Arts

Feb. 1, 2014 9:30 PM
Myra Melford, piano, Zeena Parkins, electric harp, Miya Masaoka, koto
http://www.ybca.org

East West Collective European tour

Dec 3-16, 2013
Dec. 5: Didier Petit, cello, Feng Xia, gugheng, Ochs, Saxophones, Masaoka, koto, Sylvain Kassap, clarinets
Le Carré Bleu: 1bis, Rue de Nimègue, 86 000 Poitier
Dec. 7: La Dynamo (with a first set / Nicole Mitchell solo)
9, rue Gabrielle Josserand 93500 Pantin
Dec. 8: Prieuré de Vausse (11th century monastery)
Address 89310 Chatel Gerard
Dec 13: La Cave Dimiere
107 rue Paul-Vaillant-Couturier   95100 Argenteuil
Dec. 14: Pannoica
9, rue basse porte 44000 Nantes
Dec. 17: Le Petit Faucheux Festival
Address: 12, rue leonard de vinci 37000 Tours

Roulette, NYC

November 17, 2013
Triangle of Resistance (2013), A multi-media performance
World Premiere
Music: Miya Masaoka
Video Projection: Michelle Handelman
Conductor: Richard Carrick
Direction: Brooke O’Harra
Lighting Design: Justin Townsend
Lighting Assistant: Sophie Talmadge Silleck
String Quartet: Jennifer Choi, Violin; Esther Noh, Violin; Ljova, Viola; Alex Waterman, Cello; Satoshi Takeishi, Percussion; Miya Masaoka, Koto; Ben Vida, Analog Modular Synthesizer
With generous support from the MAP FUND and the Doris Duke Award

Cornell University Residency

Oct. 22-24, 2013
Oct. 21, “Improvisation and Outsider Art,” lecture
Oct. 22, Workshop, bring instruments
Oct. 23, guest in the “Music on the Brain” workshop (taught by Professor Ron Hoy and Annie Lewandowski)
Oct. 23, Barnes Hall concert with Kenta Nagai, fretless bass

La Jolla Symphony, Steven Schick conducts

September 20, 2013 7:30 PM
Reading for Symphony Orchestra
By composers: Miya Masaoka, Michael Dessen, Daniel Francis Marschak, Alan Chan and Tobin Chodos.
Mandeville Auditorium, UCSD, San Diego, CA

Ze Couch

September 15th, 2013
Jeremiah Cymerman (clarinet) & Frantz L. (viola)
Miya Masaoka (koto) & Kenta Nagai (fretless guitar)
Ignacio Rivas Bixio (percussion/electronics)
266 St. Mark’s Ave #4, Brooklyn, NY

The Knockdown Center: Sound Corridors

Sept. 14, 2013
Sound Corridors is a series of sound events exploring non-traditional interactions between sound and space. Set in architecturally and acoustically unique spaces, the series invites sound artists and composers to generate new work to activate the peculiarities of each performance environment.
Masaoka will be premiering “just intone” for 16 channel sound installation using just intonation harmonic frequencies.
Events featuring: Sabisha Freidberg, Richard Garet, Ashcan Orchestra, Tristan Shpherd, Leila Bordreuil, Doron Ssadja, Alfredo Marin
The Knockdown Center, 5219, Queens, NY
http://shinkoyo.com/festivals/soundcorridors2013/

Yerba Buena Center for the Arts

June 28, 2013
Migrating Identities

Vision Festival, Roulette, NYC

June 14, 2013 8:45 PM
East West Collective
Didier Petit, cello
Xu Feng Xia, guzheng
Larry Ochs, saxophones
Sylvain Kassap, clarinets
Miya Masaoka, koto

Vision Festival, Roulette, NYC

June 13, 2013 9:00 PM
Rob Brown’s U_L Project
Rob Brown – alto saxophone
Joe McPhee – trumpet, saxophone
Miya Masaoka – koto
Mark Helias – bass
Qasim Naqvi – drums

Either/Or Spring Festival at The Kitchen

May 31st, 2013 8:00 PM
WORLD PREMIERE!
The Dust and the Noise
For Piano, Percussion, Cello and Violin
composed by Miya Masaoka for Either/Or

Center for New Music, San Francisco, CA

April 13, 2013

ROVA Saxophone Quartet with Zeena Parkins and Miya Masaoka.

Matt Small, and Mike Lockwood playing works by The Collected.

55 Taylor St, San Francisco, CA

Freight and Salvage, Berkeley, CA

March 17, 2013

Myra Melford, Piano

Zeena Parkins, Electric Harp

Nicole Mitchell, Flute

Miya Masaoka, koto

Berkeley Arts

March 6, 2013

With Jon Raskin, Zeena Parkins, Phillip Greenlief, Nat Wooley, Kris Tiner

University Ave, Berkeley, CA

Red Poppy Art House

February 28, 2013
With saxophonist John Ingle, saxophone, Matt Ingalls, clarinet
2698 Folsom St, San Francisco, CA 94110
redpoppyarthouse.org

The Stone: Sarah Weaver’s Cycles of Awakening

December 22, 2012
Robert Dick (flutes) Jane Ira Bloom (soprano sax) Oliver Lake (alto sax) Min Xiao-Fen (pipa) Dave Taylor (bass trombone) Miya Masaoka (koto) Ursel Schlicht (piano) Sarah Weaver (conductor, composer)

Bassist Willam Parker: The Stone

December 15, 2012
William Parker: Kyoko Kitamura (voice) Miya Masoka (koto) William Parker (bolon)
The Stone, NYC

UNDER_LINE Benefit

December 6, 2012
Ensemble with Amiri Baraka, Joe McPhee, Mark Helias, Ben Gerstein
The Angel Orensanz Foundation
172 Norfolk Street, New York, NY 10002

Warsaw: The Factories

November 20, 2012
Conceived, composed by Miya Masaoka
Center of Contemporary Art, Laboratorium, Warsaw, Poland

The Old Stone House

November 8, 2012
Miya Masaoka & Satoshi Takeishi (percussion)
336 Third Street Park Slope, Brooklyn
Facebook.com/MusicalEcologies

Pauline Oliveros, Ione: Athens, Greece

October 20, 2012
Oracle Bones: Oliveros, Ione, Masaoka
The Onassis Center, Athens, Greece

Guelph Jazz Festival: Guelph, Ontario, Canada

September 8, 2012
BREW: Reggie Workman, Gerry Hemingway, Miya Masaoka
http://www.guelphjazzfestival.com

Yokohama, Japan

August 27, 2012
Private Concert
Yokohama, Japan

Garden of Memory

June 21, 2012
Duo with Larry Ochs
Curated by Sarah Cahill
Chapel of the Chimes, Oakland, CA,
http://www.gardenofmemory.com/

INTERPRETATIONS: Earl Howard Ensemble

May 12, 2012 8:00 PM
Earl Howard,(Kurzweil K2600).Wu Wei (sheng, erhu), Alan Jaffe (guitar), Miya Masaoka (koto), Ernst Reijseger (cello), Mark Dresser (bass), Harris Eisenstadt (percussion)
Roulette, NYC

East West Ensemble: Paris, France

April 17-26, 2012
Tour with Dider Petit, Xu Fengxia, Sylvain Kassap, Larry Ochs
Avignon, Brest, Paris

Paul Fort Concert: Paris, France

April 2, 2012
Miya Masaoka, Larry Ochs
19 Paul Fort Concert, Paris, France

In The Spirit of Peter Kowald

April 2, 2012 7:30 PM
Miya Masaoka, Joe McPhee, William Parker, Masahiko Kono, Fay Victor, Gerald Cleaver, Ches Smith, Patricia Nicholson, Tony Malaby, Tor Snyder
Les Gallery: 107 Suffolk St, NYC

Tour To India with Dr. L. Subramaniam

January, 2012
Bangalore, Mumbai, Pune.

Apositsia Music Festival, Russia

November 26, 2011
Solo koto and electronics
St. Petersburg, Russia
http://aposition.ru/ru/aposition-2011

Center of Contemporary Art, Laboratorium, Warsaw, Poland

November 20, 2011
Warsaw: The Factories
Conceived, composed by Miya Masaoka
Field recordings and video in and around Warsaw of many factories
Video projections: Robert Beza, Julia Kubica, violin, Mikołaj Pałosz, cello, Joanna Sokołowska, voice, Julia Szproch, voice

Chlodna 25, Warsaw, Poland

November 6, 2011
Agnes Szelag: cello, Norman Teale: electronics
Julia Szproch + Sean Palmer: vocals
Jacek Mazurkiewicz: double bass
Miya Masaoka: koto

Centennial Hall, Colorado Springs University

September 23, 2011 8:00 PM
Concert with Jane Rigler, Glen Whitehead, students

Guelph Jazz Festival: Nuit Blanche, Guelph, Canada

September 10, 2011
Geographies: Miya Masaoka
City Hall Council Chambers
www.guelphjazzfestival.com

Garden of Memory 2011 at Chapel of the Chimes, on Summer Solstice

June 21, 2011 5:00 PM
Alternating Sets with Pamela Z
Oakland, CA
www.gardenofmemory.com

The Walker, Minneapolis, MN

May 12, 2011
Sound Horizon
Geographies: Solo Koto and electronics
walkerart.org

Stoneybrook College: New Jersey, NY

May 7, 2011
Annual recital with Sawai Koto Academy

The Stone, NYC

April 9, 2011 8:00 PM
Duet with Vinny Golia
thestonenyc.com

John Zorn Japan Benefit, Abrons Art Center

April 8, 2011
6:30 Jack Quartet, Milford Graves, Mark Feldman, Sylvie Courvoisier, Elliott Sharp, Ikue Mori, John Zorn, Jamie Saft
7:30 Miya Masaoka, Koto
Nishina, 5 Voices, Erik Friedlander, Alhambra Trio, Ned Rothenberg and more.
466 Grand Street New York, NY 10002
abronsartscenter.org

The Whitebox, NYC

April 1, 2011
The Extended Piano, works for disclavier
Balls, for laser Koto, disklavier, and ping pong balls
329 Broome St.

Berkeley Art Museum

March 11, 2011 7:30 PM
L@TE Series
Miya Masaoka: Solo Koto and Electronics
Gallery B: 2626 Bancroft Way, Berkeley

Freight + Salvage

February 9, 2011
Fred Frith, Larry Ochs, Miya Masaoka, Maybe Monday
http://www.thefreight.org/

MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART CHICAGO, Asian American Jazz Festival

November 20, 2010
LED KIMONO PROJECT
Miya Masaoka: koto and electronics
Mariko Masaoka-Drew: kimono movement
Arnold Davidson: Futurist, reading from Luigi Russolo’s Art of Noise
Michelle Handelman: Video projection

Rennselaer Polytechnic Institute and and Stanford University

November 10, 2010
Telematic concerts for Ensembles: Tinnabulate (RPI) and SoundWire (Stanford)
Premiere of Off a Craggy Cliff for two ensembles and duet with Chris Chafe
Rennselaer Auditorium, NY

Roulette, NYC

October 23, 2010
Premiere: Swimming Through Madness
Channeling Scelsi: with Italian channeler Carlo Costa
Duet for two 13 string kotos
Akiko Sasaki, koto, Miya Masaoka, koto
Carlo Costa: Italian reader, reading excerpts form Giacinto Scelsi’s autobiography
http://roulette.org/events/miya-masaoka-w-akiko-sasaki-2/

The Stone

October 20, 2010
Swimming Through Madness: for two 13 string kotos
Akiko Sasaki + Miya Masaoka
Channeling Scelsi: with Italian reader Carlo Costa
www.thestonenyc.com

City of Women International Festival of Contemporary Art

October 10, 2010
Solo Performance, Koto and electronics
Skuc Gallery, Lujbliana, Slovenia

Columbia University Center for Jazz Studies

September 30, 2010
Conversations with Composers
Miya Masaoka in Conversation with Vijay Iyer
301 Philosophy Hall, Columbia University

Airegin, Yokohama Japan

September 22, 2010
Marcos Fernandes, Raed Yassin – contrabass, Paed Conca – clarinet, Kenichi Matsumoto – sax, shakuhachi

Shinjuku Pit Inn, Tokyo

September 19, 2010
Michiyo Yagi; 21 string koto, Carl Stone; Laptop, Mats Gustafsson, saxophone + Miya Masaoka, koto
B1 Accord Building, 2-12-4 Shinjuku, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo, Japan

Super Deluxe, Tokyo

September 15, 2010
Seiichi Yamamoto (guitar), Miya Masaoka (koto), Yumiko Tanaka (shamisen/voice), Marcos Fernandes (percussion)
Roppongi, Tokyo, Japan
http://www.super-deluxe.com

The Stone

August 22, 2010
Trio with Mary Halvorson, guitar; Satoshi Takeishi, percussion
www.thestonenyc.com

Duet with Miya Masaoka + Anthony Coleman

July 11, 2010 8:00 PM
The Stone, NYC
www.thestonenyc.com

B Flat, Berlin, Germany

June 20, 2010
OBLIQ & Miya Masaoka
Miya Masaoka (Koto), Pierre Borel (as), Derek Shirley (b), Hannes Lingens (dr).
Rosenthaler Strasse 13, 10119 Berlin-Mitte

Ausland, Berlin, Germany

June 18, 2010
Nine Lives Volume iV
Miya Masaoka – koto, Okkyung Lee – cello, Clare Cooper – guzheng, Asi Foecker- guitar + vision, Hanno Leichtmann – drums + electronics, Sven Ake Johansson – percussion, Clayton Thomas – double bass, Kai Fagaschinski – kai fagaschinski
Ausland, Lychenerstr. 60

Mulbau, Lucerne, Switzerland

June 15, 2010
Duet with Gerry Heminway a + Miya Masaoka
Mulbau, lindenstrasse 32 a, 6015 luzern
http://mullbau.ch

Auditorium, Rome, Italy

May 27, 2010
Parco della Musica Jazz Orchestra
George Lewis, director + trombone, Miya Masaoka, Gianni Oddi, Daniele Tittarelli, Gianni Savelli, Moarco Conti, Elvio Ghigliordini, Fernando Brusco, Claudio Corvini, Giancarlo Ciminelli, Aldo Bassi, Mario Corvini, Assimo Pirone, Luca Guistozzi, Roberto Pecorelli, Pino Iodice, Luca Pirozzi, Pietro Iodice.