Here are the performances scheduled:
2025:
17 March 2025: Ceramic Concert with percussionist Ying-Hsueh Chen and music Anthropologist Eva Fock.
6 April 2025: Matiné Concert with Kenneth Larsen. Music for Longchenpa. Odense, Denmark.
16 April 2025: 2nd Shakuhachi Symposium organised by Kiku Day and others. https://wsf2025.com/symposium
17 April 2025: Performance of Roxanna Panufnik’s Wild Ways for shakuhachi and choir. With Rebecca Hay’s Voice Studio and the Texas A&M Ingeniare Choir. At the Opening Concert for World Shakuhachi Festival 2025 in Texas.
20 April 2025: Workshop: Daiotsu Gaeshi on 2.4 or A shakuhachi. World Shakuhachi Festival 2025 in Texas.
17 – 25 May 2025: Tour with koto/shamisen players and singers: Shimonoto Ayumi and Yuka Sakura.
6 August 2025: Event commemorating Hiroshima. REGAN – Cold War Museum, Skørping, Denmark. Solo performances.
25 – 29 August 2025: School concerts Klange fra Stenalderen (Sounds from Stone Age) with Anders Børup and Ying-Hsueh Chen. Levende Musik I Skolen (Live Music in Schools).
World Shakuhachi Festival 2025 in Texas.Concert at an opening of a Stone Age playground.
1 – 3 September 2025: Nordic Buddhism and Music Network – Symposium. Reykjavik, Iceland and concert at Mengi.
22 – 24 September: Concerts with Klange fra Stenalderen. LMS (Live music in schools) Festival.
PAST PERFORMANCES
2024:
24 November 2024: Improvisation Concert organised by Francis Moore. Musicians: Clive Bell, Shabaka Hutchings, Francis Moore and Kiku Day. London, UK.
4 November 2024: Recording session for an animé in Paris, France. With Quentin Sirjacq
22 – 27 October 2024: Concerts and Workshops in Winnipeg, Canada.
8 October 2024: World Shakuhachi Day. 24-hour Online gathering for shakuhachi players. Organised by Sakai Genshin and Kiku Day.
8-10 October 2024: ICTM Nordic-Baltic ICTMD Conference. Helsinki, Finland. The theme of the conference is “The Past, Present and Future of Ethnomusicology in the Nordic-Baltic Region”. The conference will take place in-person in Helsinki at the House of Science and Letters (Tieteiden talo), address: Kirkkokatu 6, Helsinki, Finland.
In the panel: New developments to the archaeology of sound in the Nordic countries:
Eva Fock (Copenhagen, D): From kitchen midden to orchestra pit
Kiku Day (London, D): Exploring sound with materials from antiquity: a performance research
Riitta Rainio (Helsinki, F): “Is there power in the mountain?” Acoustic measurements and archival
study of Finnish historical rock sites
Gjermund Kolltveit (Nesodden, N): Where did the fairies play? Some thoughts on landscape,
resonance, and folk traditions
One of the founding members of the ICTM Study Group on Music Archaeology (in 1981, Seoul) was Cajsa S. Lund of Sweden, an international pioneer in this field of research. Especially because of her influence, music archaeology has adopted a wide approach to music, sound, sound tools and soundscapes of the past. In this panel we will follow up, and discuss new research initiatives in Denmark, Norway and Finland.
Although we are not particularly concerned with terminology; our research relates to music archaeology as well as archaeoacoustics. Music archaeology is an interdisciplinary research area seeking to explore problems related to music, musical instruments and sound tools on basis of archaeological materials. Archaeoacoustics, or acoustic archaeology, focuses on the role of sound and soundscapes in human culture, with studies of, for instance, caves, rock art sites, or the acoustic environment as such. The fields are overlapping, and individual researchers and projects sets the agenda. The blurred disciplinary boundaries are notably manifest in the Nordic research tradition that we represent. Since sound is a common ground, a productive way of labelling our work could be the archaeology of sound.
In Northern Europe, our research can only to a limited extent make use of written documents and iconographical representations. We have to base our interpretations on the archaeological materials and their contexts, in combination with ethnographic analogy. We employ an exploratory methodology with practical testing, experiments, combined with pedagogical and artistic activities.
Two ongoing projects form the backdrop of this panel: The Sound of Antiquity /
Lyden af oldtiden (DK) is a work in progress: Archeologists, music researchers and musicians have cooperated to exchange knowledge and develop school workshops and new concert formats, approaching the past through contemporary ears.
Sacred Sound and Ritual Soundscapes in Historical and Contemporary Fennoscandia (FIN, N) explores ritual rocks from a previously overlooked perspective of acoustics.
The ultimate aim of this research project is to create foundations for a new transdisciplinary field termed ‘Cultural Echology’ that seeks to understand the agency of sound reflections – echoes, reverberation or resonances – in shaping human perception, cultural concepts and practices as well as engagement with the environment.
19-28 September 2024: Tour with koto players Shimonoto Ayumi and Sakura Yuka.
20.09, 20:00: The Sound of Japan: The world of Koto Music with Shakuhachi
Event: Favorite Things Festival 2024
Venue: A-Huset, Institut For (X)
Skovgaardsgade 5C, 8000 Aarhus
21.09, 20:00: Sōkyoku x Shakuhachi: The Japanese Classics and Contemporary.
Concert at Papaya Music, Huset I Hasserisgade, Hasserisgade 10, Aalborg
22.09, 10:00: Mini-concert and workshop for children in the Japanese language school.
Aarhus International School, Dalgas Ave 12, 8000 Aarhus
23.09, 13:00: Concert/workshop Aarhus University – in collaboration with Japanese Studies
25.09, 19:00: Concert in House of Possibilitas,Granåsgatan 2, 422 44 Hisings Backa near
Göteborg, Sweden.
27.09: School Concert and workshop for children, KoncertKirken, Blågårds Plads 6A, DK-2200
Copenhagen N
28.09:
11:00: School Concert, KoncertKirken, Blågårds Plads 6A, DK-2200 Copenhagen N as part
of Copenhagen World Music Festival
19:30: The Sound of Japan: The Japanese Classics and Contemporary. KoncertKirken,
Blågårds Plads 6A, CPH as part of Copenhagen World Music Festival
15 September 2024: Improv concert with John McCowen and Gudmundur Steinn Gunnarsson, Mengi, Reykjavik, Iceland.
14 September 2024: Time: 9:30. Solo concert at a Zen Centre in Reykjavik, Iceland.
10 – 11 September 2024: Sound of Antiquity, Sound Walk with Eva Fock and others.
10 Sept: Workshop with children and sound walk at Magleblik Skole, Frederiksværk
11 Sept: Workshop with children and sound walk at Flakkebjerg Friskole, Slagelse
31 August 2024: Solo Concert in Dom Utopia new Krakow, Poland (Nowohucka Odyssey).
08:00 – 09:30!
Deep listening concert with nature and sounds of the surroundings.
https://domutopii.pl/event/siuzen-koncert-glebokiego-sluchania-kiku-day-odyseja-nowohucka/
25 August 2024: Performance with the Hymnia Choir directed by Flemming Windekilde at Musikhuset i København, 17:00.
The choir will sing more pieces and I will play Betsuden Tsuru no Sugomori and Chikurai Goshō by Moroi Makoto.
23 August 2024: Sound of Antiquity. Sound walk. With music anthropologist Eva Fock.
The “band” apart from myself: Ying-Hsueh Chen (perc) and Anders Børup (voice).
This time only “us” – not children involved. We will play on instruments made with materials that were available in the Stone Age.
22 August 2024: Performance with the Hymnia Choir directed by Flemming Windekilde at Rudersdal Sommerkoncerter. Nærum Kirke, 19:30.
We will perform Roxanna Panufnik’s Wild Ways for double choir and jinashi shakuhachi.
The choir will sing more pieces and I will play Betsuden Tsuru no Sugomori and Chikurai Goshō by Moroi Makoto.
9 June 2024: Solo concert, honkyoku, Løgumkloster Refugium, Denmark.
1-2 June 2024: The sound of Antiquity: Sound walk. With music anthropologist Eva Fock.
The “band” apart from myself: Ying-Hsueh Chen (perc) and Anders Børup (voice).
26 May: Kaiden ceremony, Myoan-ji, Kyoto, Japan.
27-28 April: Bristol New Music Festival
Playing with the new Bristol East Asian Ensemble.
15-17 April: Blown off Course. Opera by Pedro Rebelo, commissioned by Miso Music, Lisboa, Portugal.
Place: Queen’s University, Belfast.
2-3 March: Workshop with the new East Asian Performance Ensemble led by Professor Michael Ellison,
Bristol University, UK.
11 February 2024: ESS European Shakuhachi Society Online Event. Teaching beginners
More info here
11 January 2024: Genshin Concert (Music and animation from the computer game Genshin Impact)
Place: Royal Festival Hall, Southbank Centre.
Royal Philharmonic Concert Orchestra
Arnie Roth, conductor
More info here
13 January: Genshin Concert (Music and animation from the computer game Genshin Impact)
Carnegie Hall, New York
Genshin Concert Orchestra
Eric Roth, conductor
More info here
21 January: European Shakuhachi New Year Concert 2024. Online.
More info click here
Registration for free is here
25 January: Opening of exhibition, Cathrine Raben Davidsen og Kapwani Kiwanga at CPH Contemporary
https://copenhagencontemporary.org/en/kapwani-kiwanga/
https://copenhagencontemporary.org/en/cathrine-raben-davidsen/
30 January: Playing at an Award Ceremony, Ikast-Brande county, Central Jutland.
18 September 2023: Soundwalks: The Sound of Antiquity
Place: Kongskilde.
17 September: Ancestral Modernism: Harvest Concert in collaboration with Golden Days Festival.
Bådehuset, Refshaleøen, Copenhagen.
4-6 September: Ancient music – project with music anthropologist Eva Fock
22-23 August 2023 Soundwalks: The Sound of Antiquity
Place: Thisted County.
7-20 August 2023: Performances in Estonia and Finland.
12-13 August: Zen Buddhist Retreat with shakuhachi classes at Sanneji, Finland. (https://sanneji.zazen.fi/en/)
17 August: Concert at Zen Buddhist Centre Sampo, Finland
More dates to be announced
30 August 2023 Team Nosaru
Koncertkirken, Copenhagen World Music Festival 2023
13-19 July 2023: International Council for Traditional Music and Dance World Conference, Ghana.
More dates
20-23 July 2023
European Shakuahchi Society Annual Summer School in Dublin
12-14 June 2023 The sound of Antiquity: Sound walk.
With music anthropologist Eva Fock
The “band” apart from myself: Ying-Hsueh Chen (perc) and Anders
Børup (voice).
2 June 2023: Solo performance and performance in collaboration with DJ Mai Hiura at Klub22’s tent at Northside Festival, Århus, Denmark.
18-21 May 2023: Teaching Fuke Myōan Shakuhachi at Zen monastery in
Germany
Place: Hokuozan Sogenji Zen Monestary, Birkenweg 1, Assendorf,
Germany
Time: 19-21 May 2023. Arrival on the 18th before 18:00
Shakuhachi teacher: Kiku Day (Fuke Myōan shakuhachi style)
Zen sessions: ShoE, the abbot of Hokuozan
Arr: Torben Sottaku Pedersen
6-7 May 2023 Workshop with Gunnar Jinmei Linder at the Royal College of
Music, Stockholm.
21-28 April 2023 Duo Concerts and workshops together with
Yamada koto player Shimonoto Ayumi
21.04.23: Workshop/Concert, Copenhagen (private event – corporation)
22.04.23: Concert/Workshop at the Copenhagen Sakura Festival,
Langelinje, Copenhagen. 12:45-13:15 Main stage
14:15-15:15 Second stage
23.04.23: Workshop and short concert for Japanese school in Aarhus
24.04.23: Concert at Verdenmusik i Nørre Snede, NSKUBIB, Nørre Snede
Add: Solbakkevej 15B, 8766 Nørre Snede. 19:30. 80 kr for
medlemmer af NSKUBIB, 100 kr for ikke-medlemmer.
25.04.23: Concert/Workshop at Højer Efterskole, Højer
26.04.23: Concert/Workshop at Aarhus University, collaboration with
Japanese Studies
27.04.23: Concert Sct Lukas Kirke, Frederiksberg, Copenhagen
Christian Richardts Vej 1A, 1951 Frederiksberg
17:00
14 April 2023: Solo performance at Det Turkise Telt, Aarhus, Denmark.
I will play at 20:45 before Poil Ueda, a band featuring Ueda Junko,
the biwa player. It will be an unusual and FUN evening!
https://www.turkislive.com/koncerter/poilueda
13-14 April 2023: British Forum for Ethnomusicology Annual Conference.
University of Edinburg. Paper on shakuhachi during WWII.
https://bfe2023.wordpress.com
26 March 2023
Ancestral Modernism concert with Ying-Hsueh Chen, Anne Eisensee and Letty Stott + workshop with Eva Fock at Bådehuset, Refshaleøen, Copenhagen, DK
The Schedule of the Day:
14:45 Ritualistic Calling
15:00 Concert
16:30- 17:30 Mini hands-on workshop (making conch-shell mouthpiece, trying conch-shells, bone/shell instruments), hanging out.
28 January at 14:00 EST/20:00 CET
Guest speaker at the Japanese Performing Arts – Special Interest Group, Society for Ethnomusicology
27 January 2023 at 19:00 CET
Talk on Pilgrimage Shikoku88 with Kenneth Larsen
Boest Forsamlingshus
Lisbon, Portugal – January
13 January 2023 : World Premiere of Blown off Course – a chamber opera by Pedro Rebelo. Performance at O’culto da Ajuda, Lisbon, Portugal, 19:30
anuary 2023 : World Premiere of Blown off Course – a chamber opera by Pedro Rebelo. Performance at O’culto da Ajuda, Lisbon, Portugal, 19:30
14 January 2023: Performance of Blown off Course – a chamber opera by Pedro Rebelo. Performance at O’culto da Ajuda, Lisbon, Portugal, 19:30