02/26/2026
Tatsuya Nakatani (Japan) returns to Bellingham next week, joined by Lost Sock (Cascadia), and spinning out of the weekly contact improvisation jam at the Akido dojo in Bellingham.
Monday, March 2nd
Aikido Peace Education Center
1101 N State Street
• 5:30pm - Contact Improvisation Class
• 7pm - Contact Improvisation Open Movement Jam
• 8:30pm - Lost Sock ( + ) live improvised music for movement
• 9:15pm - Tatsuya Nakatani ( ) solo percussion performance
$10 suggested donation supports the artists and the venue
Tatsuya Nakatani is an avant-garde percussionist, composer, and sound artist. His primary focus is his solo work and his large ensemble project, the Nakatani Gong Orchestra, which we hosted in 2019. 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.
Lost Sock is the duo of percussionist Melanie Sehman and multi-instrumentalist Future. The two met while playing in the chamber pop group Hooves & Beak, and began meeting before band practices to experiment with electronics and extended technique playing. The two continue to play together, but public shows are rare. This will be their first since 2021.
We will also popup with our mutual aid zine distro, featuring a selection of zines available by donation.
The venue is located up a flight of stairs, and the doors will be closed and locked, except for brief moments transition times. Please ring the doorbell to be let in if you arrive outside one of these transitions. If you have mobility accessibility needs, please contact us with 24-hours advance notice and we will make arrangements for you.
