Tue, Apr 09
|Smart Museum of Art
Bridging the Gap: The MIYUMI Project at Smart Museum of Art
Tatsu Aoki's The MIYUMI Project plays at the Smart Museum of Art in conjunction with their exhibition "Meiji Modern." This program is presented in collaboration with EXPO CHICAGO as the official start of EXPO ART WEEK. FREE, open to the public Registration requested by museum
Time & Location
Apr 09, 2024, 7:30 PM – 8:30 PM
Smart Museum of Art, 5550 S Greenwood Ave, Chicago, IL 60637, USA
About this event
From Smart Museum of Art:
A live performance from Tatsu Aoki's The MIYUMI Project illuminates the drum traditions of Japanese taiko and jazz.
Since the band’s formation two decades ago, Aoki has forged an exceptional and inimitable Afro-Asian musical hybrid. Presented in conjunction with Meiji Modern at the Smart Museum of Art, this performance incorporates the drummer languages of taiko and jazz. The MIYUMI Project fuses the Japanese taiko drumming tradition with first-class improvisers—who mostly herald from Chicago where Aoki has been based since 1979—such as woodwind specialists Ed Wilkerson and Mwata Bowden, experimentalist Jamie Kempkers, Tsukasa Taiko and others.
This program is presented in collaboration with EXPO CHICAGO as the official start of EXPO ART WEEK.
FREE, open to the public
To register for event, visit: https://smartmuseum.uchicago.edu/events/2195/bridging-the-gap-the-miyumi-project/