Toshi
Makihara
Toshi Makihara is one of the major voices in Philadelphia's New Music / Free Improvisation scene today. He studied percussion with Sabu Toyozumi, a prominent percussionist / improviser in Tokyo, and has worked with various new music ensembles including Orchestra of Our Time and World Sound. Makihara has also performed with many dance and theater companies in the United States, Japan and Europe. In the realm of experimental free improvised music, he has worked with variety of musicians including LaDonna Smith, Davey Williams, Tom Cora, Peter Brotzmann, Peter Koward, John Zorn, Eugene Chadbourne, Jon Rose, William Parker and Thurston Moore. Makihara's original improvisational style combines his masterful percussion technic with vaudeville humor, a zen-influenced use of silence and gesture, and a dazzling range of discovered [invented] sound media [objects] ranging from bicycle wheels to feather dusters to coiled slinkies, all used in unexpectedly unique ways. |