Tatsuya Nakatani at the TANK - Solstice Festival

In the TANK’s profound resonance, Nakatani’s vibrations and shimmering sound texture will provide an extraordinary sonic experience.

By The TANK Center for Sonic Arts

Date and time

Saturday, June 22 · 8 - 10pm MDT

Location

The TANK Center For Sonic Arts

233 County Road 46 Rangely, CO 81648

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About this event

  • 2 hours

Tatsuya Nakatani and the TANK will lift the audience for the Eighth Annual Solstice Festival to new heights. The Solstice Festival itself will continue all weekend, June 21 to 23, with gatherings, demonstrations and opportunities for all to make sonic art in the TANK.

Nakatani is an avant-garde percussionist, composer, and artist of sound. His distinctive music centers around an adapted bowed gong, supported by an array of drums, cymbals, and singing bowls. 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 an d space (ma) felt in traditional Japanese music.

This short video provides an introduction to Nakatani's extraordinary bowed gong work.

Organized by

The TANK Center for Sonic Arts

The Tank's main work, its daily bread and butter, is its recording program, which serves area musicians, sonic artists and ordinary folks, coaches them in making their own music in the Tank, and gives them a professional quality recording of the results. More basic and informal is the Tank's free, Open Saturdays program, popular with locals, who often come together to sing in the Tank, as featured in a 2016 CBS Sunday Morning segment about the place.

The Tank programs its concerts and other events with the specific aim of reaching various parts of the community. In 2018, when the Tank presented in concert the master of the Native American flute, R. Carlos Nakai, The Tank hosted local elders of the Ute Tribe for this event. In 2021, with help from a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Tank produced a music and film event with guitarist Bill Frisell and filmmaker Bill Morrison that showcased interviews with local residents, aged 8 to 80, recounting their memories of the Tank. The Tank also produces free concerts by visiting artists in the local assisted living center, the town park, the local schools and elsewhere.

$10 – $25