Off FLUX Festival: Tatsuya Nakatani + Cosmic Diver + IARA108 (Shota Nakamura, Markus Floats, Kyle Hutchins)

toscadura, Thursday, April 16 at 07:30 PM EDT

English version follows.

Salle: Toscadura (4833 St Laurent Blvd, Montréal, Québec, H2W 1Z5 ) Date: 16 avril 2026 Portes: 19h30 Musique: 20h00

Billets: $15 plus taxes et frais en avance / $20 à l’entrée

Co-diffusé avec Mardi Spaghetti

Tatsuya Nakatani est un percussionniste d’avant-garde, un compositeur et un artiste sonore. Actif sur la scène internationale depuis les années 1990, Nakatani a publié plus de 80 enregistrements et effectué de nombreuses tournées, donnant plus de 150 concerts par an. Il donne des classes de maîtres et des conférences dans les universités et les conservatoires de musique du monde entier. Originaire du Japon, il vit dans la ville désertique de Truth or Consequences, au Nouveau-Mexique. Grâce à ses activités dans les domaines de la musique nouvelle, de l’improvisation et de la musique expérimentale, Nakatani multiplie les collaborations.

La musique de Nakatani est centrée sur un gong adapté pour être joué à l’archet, soutenu par un ensemble de tambours, de cymbales et de bols chantants. Avec ses archets Kobo qu’il sculpte à la main, il a consacré des décennies à affiner et développer son univers sonore : un agencement de vibrations qui s’enlisent dans des strates scintillantes de silence et de texture. Au cœur de cette œuvre contemporaine, on perçoit encore le rythme dramatique, l’élégance formelle et l’espace (ma) caractéristiques de la musique traditionnelle japonaise.

Cosmic Diver est un duo de performance sonore et vidéo composé de Lina Choi et Robin-Dimitrije Gosselin-Monasevic qui explore un monde sous-marin imaginaire où les frontières entre les profondeurs de la mer et l'espace s'estompent. À travers des paysages sonores immersifs, le duo invite le public à dériver entre les dimensions dans un état onirique.

IARA108 présente son tout premier concert avec Shota Nakamura à la guitare et au chant, Markus Floats à la basse et Kyle Hutchins à la batterie.

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Venue: Toscadura (4388 St Laurent Blvd, Montreal, Quebec H2W 1Z5) Date: April 16, 2026 Doors: 7:30 PM Music: 8:00 PM

Tickets: $15.00 plus taxes and fees in advance / $20.00 at the door

Co-presented with Mardi Spaghetti

Tatsuya Nakatani is an avant-garde percussionist, composer, and artist of sound. Active internationally since the 1990s, Nakatani has released over 80 recordings and tours extensively, performing over 150 concerts a year. Originally from Japan, he makes his home in the desert town of Truth or Consequences, New Mexico. With his activity in new music, improvisation, and experimental music, Nakatani has a long history of collaboration.

Nakatani’s distinctive music centered around his adapted bowed gong, supported by an array of drums, cymbals, and singing bowls. In consort with his personally hand-carved Kobo Bows, he has spent decades refining and developing his sound as an arrangement of formations of vibrations, incorporated in shimmering layers of silence and texture. Within this contemporary work, one can still recognize the dramatic pacing, formal elegance and space (ma) felt in traditional Japanese music.

Cosmic Diver is a duo sound-video performance comprised of Lina Choi and Robin-Dimitrije Gosselin-Monasevic fthat explores an imaginary underwater world blurring the lines between the deep sea and outer space. Through immersive soundscapes, they invite the audience to drift between these realms in a dreamlike state.

IARA108 presents their first live set ever with Shota Nakamura on guitar and vocals, Markus Floats on bass and Kyle Hutchins on drums.

https://montreal.askapunk.net/event/off-flux-festival-tatsuya-nakatani-cosmic-diver-iara108-shota-nakamura-markus-floats-kyle-hutchins

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Last post about my life with Long Covid:
Heading home from the (dis)robe: Hospital Gown performance at the Museum of Vancouver (See the dismantled hospital gown in the back of the car...)
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