https://www.fusica.nl/makigami-koichi-comes-to-town-tpe/ Exploring Sound and Overtone Singing Mon, 08 Jun 2026 08:42:58 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.3 https://www.fusica.nl/makigami-koichi-comes-to-town-tpe/#comment-780 Mon, 08 Jun 2026 08:42:58 +0000 http://www.fusica.nl/?p=2283#comment-780 […] There is a strong connection with Central Asia, in particular Tuva and Mongolia, but also the Altay, Khakassiya. One of the very early movers in this area was Makigami Koichi, who set up a Tuva – Japan friendship association and kept on (and keeps on) coming back to Tuva and inviting musicians to Japan – also from Altay, like Bolot Bairyshev.  Makigami and his company also organised tours and published albums of musicians from South Siberia, nearly always related to throat singing. I met Makigami-san again and again: first in Tuva, then in Germany where we performed with Alexander Lauterwasser’s device to transform sound into visuals (cymatics), later in New York City with Jong Zorn after we both performed there. Of course in the Netherlands, where he was a guest with our band Oorbeek at the International Jew’s Harp Festival in 2006 and in recent years several times in Taiwan. […]

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