Witching Hour

Witching Hour: DEBIT gives a lesson in cosmogony - KRUI Radio DEBIT kicked off the 2022 Witching Hour festival in Iowa City. Image via Never Apart.

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Funny enough... we're 'Still Dreaming' about next Thursday's Witching Hour event with musician and Song Exploder host Hrishikesh Hirway 💭 Love the way life imitates art 😊

Hrishikesh Hirway - Still Dreaming Out now – http://hrishikesh.co/stilldreamingDirector - Demi AdejuyigbeProducer - Liz MaupinDirector of Photography - Bettina Campomanes1st AC/Gaffer - Bailey...

Tiny pianos, big ideas: Witching Hour and FEaST bring playful creatives to Iowa City this fall - Little Village When Lucy Yao and Dorothy Chan began collaborating with each other and creating as Chromic Duo, both were already experienced educators and performers, looking for a way to foster community and lift up the Asian American diaspora in New York, [...]Read More...

No better place to be than at The James Theater for our upcoming WH show with Hrishikesh Hirway and Jenny Owen Youngs on October 27! 🎹

We're excited to move this event to our new favorite intimate performance space for an evening song and creativity! Get your tix now: https://buff.ly/3yGCvTT

Co-Presented by The Englert Theatre and Little Village Mag

"At its heart, all collaboration is play. It often feels instinctive when we are children, but the skill is seldom encouraged and atrophies easily. Fostering community allows us to surround ourselves with other seekers. And the more we practice, the better we all get."

Let's play together Friday, Oct. 21 at The James Theater 🎹🎨✨

Tiny pianos, big ideas: Witching Hour and FEaST bring playful creatives to Iowa City this fall - Little Village When Lucy Yao and Dorothy Chan began collaborating with each other and creating as Chromic Duo, both were already experienced educators and performers, looking for a way to foster community and lift up the Asian American diaspora in New York, [...]Read More...

This Sunday we team up with Feed Me Weird Things and Public Space One to present the NAKATANI GONG ORCHESTRA 🪐

After a solo set by Tatsuya Nakatani, a 14 piece orchestra made up entirely of Iowa City musicians will take the Englert stage to perform his gong based compositions.

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Tatsuya Nakatani is an avant-garde percussionist, composer, and artist of sound. Active internationally since the 1990s, Nakatani has released over 80 recordings and tours extensively, performing over 150 concerts a year. His primary focus is his solo work and his large ensemble project, the Nakatani Gong Orchestra. He teaches master classes and lectures at universities and music conservatories around the world. Originally from Japan, he makes his home in the desert town of Truth or Consequences, New Mexico. With his activity in new music, improvisation, and experimental music, Nakatani has a long history of collaboration.

Nakatani's distinctive music centered around his adapted bowed gong, supported by an array of drums, cymbals, and singing bowls. In consort with his personally hand-carved Kobo Bows, he has spent decades refining and developing his sound as an arrangement of formations of vibrations, incorporated in shimmering layers of silence and texture. Within this contemporary work, one can still recognize the dramatic pacing, formal elegance and space (ma) felt in traditional Japanese music.

A little Witching Hour 2015 throwback to cleanse the timeline 🤲

📸: Zak Neuman