• MZM Trio: Myra Melford, Zeena Parkins, Miya Masaoka

    Ten improvised pieces from three of the most innovative instrumentalists at work today. More »

  • Hiko Hiko alternative persona

    Hiko Hiko is a time traveler, a shamanistic figure of a non specific gender and non specific race.  They sometimes wear kimono rags and clothes embedded with percussion and tin cans trailing behind.   Hiko Hiko is said to journey to distant planets, to ancient Japan, to contemporary Harlem, and is known to make unannounced appearances… More »

  • Tilt

    20th Anniversary of Other Minds Festival…. More »

  • 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… More »

  • The Long Arc of Time

    A new Noh chamber opera to be premiered at Park Avenue Armory June 13, 2019.   More »

  • The Movement of Things

    City Halls, Glasgow, Scotland, More »

  • While I Was Walking, I Heard A Sound…

    Conducted by Robert Geary.  Performed by Volti, Piedmont East Bay Children’s Choir, The San Francisco Chorale Society, and soloists. Commissioned by Yerba Buena Center for the Arts on the occasion of their 10th anniversary…. More »

  • Network Of Energy

    Composed by Miya Masaoka, performed by Masaoka, koto, Mark Dresser, Bass, Stephanie Richards, Trumpet, Madison Greenstone, clr, Kjell Nordeson, Percussion, Sean Dowgray, Percussion, Andrew Drury, Percussion. Performed at the San Diego Art Museum, November, 2015 More »

  • Slivering

    The RPI Orchestra (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute) conducted by Nicolas de Masion; recording and reading of Slivering, 2018… More »

  • Vaginated Chairs

    MoMA PS1, April 1, 2018 In “Vaginated Chairs”- the vagina is a site for perception, for new ways of listening and perceiving, and, as Masaoka argues, is the Third Ear. Come sit on our humming and vibrating chairs, each tuned to a specific frequency and made into a kind of loud speaker. Some participants will… More »