The Invisible Dog (New York City) and BUoY Arts Center (Tokyo) are thrilled to present a performance by Chatori Shimizu & devon osamu tipp, as part of NAFAS TOKYO.
This performance is part of NAFAS, an international festival exploring the relationship between art and food with an exhibition of 60 artists and a series of performances, workshops and events. Discover the full program here
Takenoko Lab is an experimental performance designed around the concepts of bamboo as food, and bamboo woodwind instruments (shō, shakuhachi).This experimental event will allow participants to physically experience the process by which a single bamboo stalk transforms from a bamboo shoot (food) underground, to a musical instrument like the sho or shakuhachi above ground, and finally to sound produced by human breath. Guests will be immersed in an unparalleled experience to ruminate on the multifaceted ways humans connect with the sounds, smell, and flavors of bamboo.
The performance will be followed by a Q/A with the artists
TKTK 会 is a duo project of shō player Chatori Shimizu and shakuhachi player devon osamu tipp. They draw on our training in traditional Japanese performing arts, music composition, and improvisation to ruminate on and expand the possibilities of their performance practice.
Chatori Shimizu creates experimental and interdisciplinary sound works through semi-autobiographical narratives, articulated as concert music, site-specific music, or kinetically enhanced music. His practice spans a wide range of methods, including instrumental composition, programming, electronic circuitry, videography, installation, improvisation, and movement-based art.
devon osamu tipp's music draws influence from their Japanese roots, experiences as a jeweler and painter, improvisations with plants, and studies of gagaku and hogaku. Their music focuses on rhythmic and timbral transmutation of cyclical materials as a way of reflecting on my past, while simultaneously interrogating their own role as a shakuhachi player participating in different performance settings.
Shimizu and Tipp have been collaborating since 2018 and performed each other's compositions as soloists at festivals such as Music on the Edge (Pittsburgh, PA 2018) and the Oh My Ears Festival (Phoenix, AZ 2021) and Unerhörte Musik (Berlin, Germany 2022).
They debuted their duo collaboration at the Hochschüle für Musik Dresden in 2019 and have since presented several times in the Tokyo area.
Location
BUoY Arts Center
49-11, Senju-Nakacho, Adachi-ku,
Tokyo
Admission:
Ticketed event, ticket at the door (price to be announced soon)
Date
Sunday September 20, 2026
at 7pm
Duration: 60mn