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MOTOKO HONDA

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Motoko Honda is a pianist, keyboardist, improviser, composer, and sound architect living in Los Angeles. Graduated from California Institute of the Arts, Motoko has been active as a Electro-Acoustic-Prepared Piano soloist, Band leader, Sound artist collaborating with visual artists and dancers, and Recording artist for films covering wide range of music from classical, avant-garde, jazz, punk, contemporary, world and new music.
Being a frequent "pick of the week" by Los Angeles Times and Los Angeles Weekly, also documented as a featured musician in documentary film "Good Ear", she has performed at major venues such as Ford Theater, Barnsdall Gallery Theater, REDCAT/Disney Hall/MOCA, and many festivals. Continuing to pursue the boundaries of different kind of music, Motoko is known to weave through genres of music and create something unique and personal every time.
奇才を多々輩出される事で知られるカリフォ ルニア芸術大学院出身、ピアノ、エレクトロ ニックス即興作曲演奏家である。ロサンゼル ス在住。アコースティックとエレクトロニッ クスの統合を計ったソロ演奏や、アーティス トやダンサーとのコラボレーション、プリペ アードピアノやコンテンポラリー演奏、バン ドリーダーとして知られている。同大学院で はマルチパフォーマンス過程、ピアノ、キー ボード科に奨学金で入学、TAとして教鞭も握㠁£ãŸã€‚レジェンド的存在であるトランペッタ㠃¼ã€Wadada Leo Smith に抜擢され、演奏作曲過程、アフリカン/ア メリカン即興演奏科でもマスターを取得して いる。ジャズのあらゆるスタイルや、アフリ カンダンス、アフリカンドラミング、インデ ィアンタブラやインドネシア音楽も学習し、 それらの経験がクラシックのテクニックと混 合されて独特な音楽世界を創り出す事で知ら れているサウンドアーティストでもある。
西海岸のブルーノートと言われるJazz Bakeryでのバンドリーダーとしての演奏や、レ ジェンド的音楽スポット、クラブロッコでの 数々の演奏、Angel City Jazz Festival, Los Angeles Creative Music Festival, Asian American Jazz Festival 等の大規模なフェスティバルでの演奏を行っ て来た。エレクトロニックスとアコースティ ック混合の専門家としてInternational Spark Festival, Boise Creative Music Festival 等でも演奏を派達し、Disney Hall/REDCAT/MOCA やBarnsdall Gallery Theater、Ford Theater 等の大きなステージでのダンサーとのコラボ レーションも有名である。
ロサンゼルスタイムスやロサンゼルスウェイ ークリーのトップピックとして数々取り上げ られてきたのと同時に、同誌の専属でもあっ た音楽評論家グレッグバーク氏にも、”ユニ ークで最も情熱的である”。“空気を彩る” 、”ミューズの化身のようである”と称され てきた。辛口で有名なクリプトグラモフォン のマシュー ドーソン氏にも“魔女のようだ ”という彼女の演奏は聞いてみなくては解ら ないものだろう。..
ジャズ、即興演奏界の大物であるWadada Leo Smith, Vinny Golia, Jeff Gauthier, Alex Clineと肩を並べると同時に、ロックバンドWilc oのギタリストであるNels Clineにも認められ、パンク音楽界のレジェン㠃‰ã€Mike Watt や、ロック界のレッドホットチリペッパーの フリーとの共演も行った。クラシカルピアニ ストとしては、コンチェルトのソリストとし て、室内音楽家としてのヨーロッパ演奏ツア ーも果たし、アメリカではLos Angeles Piano Unitの演奏等幅広い活動を行っている。2009年㠁«èŠ¸è¡“家専用ビザ取得と共にアメリカ国外で㠁®æ¼”奏が可能になった。
CD coming up sometime next year: "Shiratori" A journey of a white bird with singer/poet/artist, Kamal Kozah. CD was recorded in March 2008 at Westlake Studios in Hollywood, CA. "Edge Study" Synthesizer by Motoko and Trumpet by Bruce Friedman. "SOLO CD(title unknown)" Electro-Acoustic-Prepared Piano Solo, recorded January 2008. "TRIO with Brad Dutz and Emily Hay(title unknown)" "DUO with Nels Cline(title unknown)"
Collaboration Work with an artist Fumiko Amano at Lawrence Asher Gallery, Nov. 3rd 2007
Improvisation has been always closest to me-Since I remember, I was always singing, making up the songs I felt each moment and everything I saw and I thought...which annoyed my family a lot. Now I just let it ring in my head and occasionally play on the piano. I believe the improvisation is nothing weird but something we all understand and are most familiar-it is the humming we do in the bathroom, it is the sound of rain, winds, the eyes of your favorite person, and everything we see and feel in this world and maybe, even beyond.
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Interests
-Create the architecture of sound
-plays piano inside and out
-improvise and composition(influences include african, ballinese, and japanese music)
-premere new compositions-both traditional and crazy new ones
-connect electronics to piano or play with keyboard(virtual analog synth or hooked up to computer)
-collaborate with various kind of artists-visual, video, dancers, light design
-record for films
-hard core classical solo and chamber repertoire
-learning jazz piano
Venues
Ford Theatre
REDCAT/MOCA at disney hall
Barnsdall Gallery Theatre
Jazz Bakery
Angel City Jazz Festival
Asian American Jazz Festival
Ear Jam Music Festival
Park City Music Festival
Spark Electronic Music Festival
Boise Creative Music Festival
Line Space Line festival
Sienna Music Festival, Italy
Sandzen Gallery Museum
Rocco
Lillian Theater
Cafe Metropol
Eagle Rock Cultual Center
Club Tropical
Prospector
Pharaoh's Den
Thread
The Smell
Poobah Record
Dangerous Curve
Raid Projects
Lawrence Asher Gallery
Cattedorale/Duomo di Siena-Italy
Accademia Dei Rozzi, Sala Degli Specchi-Italy
19th San Quirico Estate Festival-Italy
Cortile Del Podesta -Italy
53rd Anniversary Concert of the Liberazione di Ponsacco-Italy
Cattedorale di Pienza-Italy
Montecatini Terme-Italy
Horti Leonini-San Quirico D'Orcia-Italy
George & Sakaye Aratani Japan America Theatre(kecyak)
Interests 2
-collaborate and collaborate- with musicians, and with artists-
-create new music and bring life back into old music as well
-support other pianists and piano students
-support communities of musicians and artists

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Music:

Member Since: 06/03/2007
Band Website: contact:send an e-mail to [email protected]
Band Members: Motoko Honda
Influences: Wadada Leo Smith, Vinny Golia, Mark Trayle, Miloslav Tadic, John Bergamo, Brian Pezzone,Vicki Ray, Robert Moeling,Gary Fukushima,Leroy Jenkins, Paul Novros, Larry Koonse, Miroslav Tadic,David Roitstein,I. Nyoman Wenten, Beautrice Lawluvi, Alfred Ladzekpo,John Bergamo, Swapan Chudhuri, Rajeev Taranath.Myra Melford, Lenni Stern, Jeff Gauthier, Alex Cline, Nels Cline, Mike Watt, Kris Tiner, Jason Meyers, Daren Burns, Satoko Fujii, Tokiwa Ishibashi,Ruiko Koga, J.S.Bach, Franz Liszt, George Crumb
Sounds Like: crazy person
Record Label: Unsigned

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Posted by on Wed, 23 Dec 2009 00:38:00 GMT

Gig Guide: July 21st, 2009

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Posted by on Mon, 07 Sep 2009 01:10:00 GMT

Check out this event: The Sound of Silence Moving

Hosted By: roccoinLA.comWhen: Saturday Oct 20, 2007 at 8:00 PMWhere: Barnsdall Gallery Theater4800 Hollywood BlvdHollywood, CA 90027United StatesDescription:roccoinLA.com Click Here To View Event$12-$...
Posted by on Mon, 01 Oct 2007 09:45:00 GMT

July 27th show- thank you for coming !!

whew! The show on July 27th was another successful night with full of people showed up ! I really want to thank everybody who came, and who couldn't make it but gave me a big support. I also want to ...
Posted by on Mon, 30 Jul 2007 11:32:00 GMT

Beautiful Poem by Nduku M. Roger

This is the poem dedicated by Nduku M. Roger, a wonderful poet who I came to know recently and whose works stuns me. He wrote this after June 30th show with Matt Piper. At that time, I didn't know N...
Posted by on Mon, 30 Jul 2007 01:00:00 GMT