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CONTEMPORARY PRACTICES

In addition to traditional performing arts programs, AIRMW and its artists are active within the contemporary performing, music and visual arts landscape. Learn more about our in-house and collaborative projects below.

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the MIYUMI project
Tatsu Aoki's ensemble, The MIYUMI Project, is one of the longest-standing amalgams of Chicago's avant-garde jazz and Japanese traditional music. Drawing from aesthetics rooted in the Japanese tradition and Japanese taiko drumming permeate the laboratory of sound where he explores the nexus of cultures: Asian and American; Japanese and African; past and present.
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