News
Lecture

I am invited to talk at The Search for Wonder and the Discovery of Theatre Creative Research in Contemporary Performing Arts at Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu upon the occasion of Sibiu International Theatre Festival, June 23-24 2023, in Sibiu, Romania.

Collaborative Show
Cicada

I will collaborate with visual artist Olivia Ting to premiere our audiovisual performance work outdoors at CNMAT on May 7 at 8pm. We have each shared our stories about our respective physical experiences through hearing aids, surgeries and recovery, through memories, bodies, and how these experiences and shapes may become myths and dreams. The stories will unfold spatially and audiovisually through projections on membranes, movement performance, and spatialized voice embodied and reimagined in an outdoor performance.

We will collaborate on this poetic exploration of renewal and acceptance of change in the courtyard garden in CNMAT. 

sound development: Luke Dzwonczyk 
special thanks to Jeremy Wagner

*Water field recordings and model training conducted by Maar and Gabriel Vigliensoni. Sounds of water and rocks were captured in Cala Llucalcari, Mallorca, in 2022.

Composition
mystery in itself

Richard Worn premieres 6 works for bass and electronics at CNMAT (1750 Arch St Berkeley, CA 94709) on April 24 at 8pm. This is the streaming link.

mystery in itself for Richard Worn composed by Aine Nakamura

The work is dedicated to Richard Worn and his mother Ethel Schmidt Worn. Ethel Schmidt Worn has impacted Richard in his private and professional life. She is the reason Richard started to play the bass as a child, which is now his profession. Through two interviews with Richard, he shared his relationship with the bass, the body of the bass and his body, postures, everyday practice and stretches, and about his mother and her words. Through his work ethics and stories involving his mother, I got to briefly see the diligence and personality of Ethel Schmidt Worn and her deep care to his son and his to her, which seem to always be together with Richard.

Composition
Bent Duo

Bent Duo (Bill Solomon, David Friend) will premiere but will always find, its freespace, which I composed for the duo, on April 17 at A Concert of Virtuosi presented by Association for the Promotion of New Music featuring The Bent Duo, Christopher Oldfather, Mariel Roberts, and Ha Young Jung at DiMenna Center for Classical Music in NYC along with works by David Glaser, Marjorie Merryman, Hiroya Miura,and Edgar Williams.

"It turns out that both the digital space of Grindr and the urban spaces of historically queer neighborhoods are both becoming highly commercialized, perhaps at the expense of a community who can no longer afford, but will always find, its freespace" 

Jonathan Hruska, Dark Room Detours 

eat the rich 

(RAMBLE, 2) 

The work is inspired by the duo's social and musical engagements of listening to spaces and environments and interacting with them, and the zines RAMBLE and BDLA for queer percussion research group; both of which are created by Bent Duo. The duo creates its free-spirited sonic space with everyday used or inexpensive objects, moving with them, the texts, and bodies, walking and playing. The sound and interactions they embody and pose creates and embraces the freespace.

Performance
Echo

I will present a 2-hour durational performance at Echo at Glasshouse in New Paltz, NY on April 15. This will be a deepening of my work Yami and Iro.

Performance
Seamus Conference

My work Kusottare! was selected in the 2023 SEAMUS Conference. I will perform an excerpt of the work in NYC during the conference (April 7-8 2023).

Collaborative and solo performances
Center for New Music

I will welcome and collaborate with composer and performer Srayamurtikanti for our first appearance at the Center for New Music on March 24 2023. We will present each of our solo works, and a collaborative work upon this occasion.

I will perform with discarded objects, and a mask. 

  Hundreds of masks that don't know how to cry
  Face of Ogre 
  Tears of Ogre 
  Tears become the mud 
  Ogre and flowers