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.
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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