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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. The improvised compositions provide a conceptual framework for each band member to interpret, which in turn coalesce and transform into a vast contemporary expanse of musical immersion for the audience. Over the past two decades, each successive grouping of Miyumi Project musicians has contributed to the unique blending of modern application with a traditional sensibility. The final result is a continuous evolution of a "live and raw" musical happening.

Asian Improv aRts Midwest (AIRMW) is supported in part by The Illinois Arts Council Agency, the National Endowment of the Arts, Richard H. Driehaus Foundation, ​the JCCC Foundation, the Alphawood Foundation, Gaylord & Dorothy Donnelley Foundation, The City of Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events (DCASE), The Field Foundation, The Joyce Foundation. 

Asian Improv aRts Midwest is a registered 501(c)3 organization.
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4875 N. Elston Ave, Chicago IL 60630

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info@airmw.org

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