In the Icebox Project Space, a huge concrete project space on American Street in North Philadelphia, 14 local musicians and artists are stationed around gongs of different sizes. At a Monday evening ...

Iowa City architect Brian Gotwals is probably more comfortable playing drums, a banjo or washtub bass than he is playing a Chinese gong. Yet, he will be among 14 or so local musicians recruited to ...

A gong hangs suspended from its stand, light dancing across its bronzed surface, each hammered dent hinting at some mysterious overtone waiting to be released. If you grab the right mallet and strike ...

The Widow Jane Mine at the Snyder Estate, 668 state Route 213, Rosendale, will be the site of a performance by the Secret Gong Orchestra of the Red Kachina on Sunday, Aug. 6, at 3 p.m. The event is a ...

The Nakatani Gong Orchestra (NGO) is Tatsuya Nakatani’s large ensemble nomadic sound art project. Consisting of 17 of Nakatani’s adapted Gongs played with his handmade bows, it is the only bowed Gong ...

Of the three tracks on the Nakatani Gong Orchestra’s 2012 CD, only one of them offers actual music from the ensemble. True, the middle, performance-centered inclusion is the longest by far, a ...

When the average person thinks of gongs, the swell of a loud bang probably comes to mind. The Nakatani Gong Orchestra doesn't sound like that. Since Tatsuya Nakatani makes most of the instruments by ...