Category: News
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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/… More »
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Rubin Museum of Art “The World is Sound” — You Can’t Close Your Ears
Contributor Miya Masaoka reminds us that the field of sound art is relatively new in the world…. More »
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Miya Masaoka named Assistant Professor of Practice and Director of Sound Art MFA at Columbia University School of the Arts
[need more detail?] Miya Masaoka was named Assistant Professor of Practice and Director of Sound Art MFA at Columbia University, School of the Arts… Miya Masaoka named Park Avenue Armory Studio Artist 2019
[need more detail] Miya Masaoka was named Park Avenue Armory Studio Artist 2019… More »
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Jazz Right Now: REVIEW: MIYA MASAOKA, ZEENA PARKINS, AND MYRA MELFORD – MZM
by, Paige Johnson-Brown, JazzRightNow.com Feb 20, 2018 In tarot, The Three of Cups is often pictured as three women raising their glasses in celebration and signifies forces coming together to focus on a common emotional or creative goal. I pulled this card during a tarot reading that happened to coincide with the final moments of… More »
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The New York City Jazz Record: MZM
by Mark Keresman, The New York City Jazz Record November 2017 There are few high-wire acts as challenging and precarious as collective free improvisation. The results can dazzle, delightfully confound or seem like the by-product of musicians playing near each other. Myra Melford is a dynamic and flexible pianist, an acolyte of the late Don… More »
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Dusted: Myra Melford, Zeena Parkins, Miya Masaoka – MZM (Infrequent Seams)
by Eric McDowell, Dusted Magazine September 21, 2017 Context matters: The difference between coming to MZM expecting music for piano, harp and koto and coming to it expecting music by Myra Melford, Zeena Parkins and Miya Masaoka may be the difference between loving and hating the album. Of course, Melford, Parkins and Masaoka are three… More »
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Downbeat: Improv Explorer
by Ted Panken, Downbeat Magazine July 2017 Four years ago, saxophonist Anthony Braxton suggested to koto player Miya Masaoka that they improvise a concert together at Wesleyan University in Middletown, Connecticut. Engaging with Braxton is not an undertaking for the faint of heart, but Masaoka didn’t hesitate. “A recording date got set up and it… More »
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SF Classical Voice: Sound and Silence: Miya Masaoka Evokes a World of Emotions
by Lucy Caplan, San Francisco Classical Voice May 12, 2017 Miya Masaoka is not afraid of silence. In her opera A Line Becomes A Circle, presented at Roulette on Wednesday evening, the absence of sound is often as musically significant as its presence. The piece begins with four musicians processing quietly through the audience, making barely audible… More »
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Wall Street Journal
Triangle of Resistance review 2016… More »