In tandem with the exhibition Yoko Ono: Music of the Mind, Asian Improv aRts Midwest & Tsukasa Taiko are delighted to present Reduction 11 as part of our annual end-of-year concert series.

This year’s program features the music of Yoko Ono’s SKYLANDING, a project recorded by Tatsu Aoki’s The MIYUMI Project in 2016 in collaboration with Yoko Ono for her sculpture in Jackson Park. The MIYUMI Project plays with Tsukasa Taiko to present this project on the theatrical stage with traditional Japanese music & dance. Reduction 11 also marks the last of the 30th anniversary of the Chicago Asian American Jazz Festival programming this year, celebrating three decades of jazz and experimental music by Asian and Asian Americans in Chicago.

Featuring: Tatsu Aoki, Nicole Mitchell, Michael Zerang, Hamid Drake, Dee Alexander, Mwata Bowden, Edward Wilkerson Jr., Rami Atassi, Jamie Kempkers, Eigen Aoki, Kioto Aoki, and Gintenkai from Tsukasa Taiko.

This year’s pre-show performance highlights Kioto Aoki & Helen Nagata playing an original Gintenkai piece, Hatakun, for the final public presentation of the Folk Arts Mentorship Program grant supported by the Illinois Arts Council.

Pre-show performance is 6:30–7 pm; Reduction 11 is 7–8:30 pm.

https://visit.mcachicago.org/events/performance-reduction-11/