DESCRIPTION: Whether she's using a koto as an expressive vehicle for anything from jazz standards to electronic experimentation, writing idiosyncratic music for chorus and now orchestra, or creating music with plants and even insects crawling over her body, Miya Masaoka has been making us look and listen to the world around us in totally new ways for decades. Masaoka talks with Frank J. Oteri about how collaboration and the social contexts that inform identities inform and inspire her. To read their entire conversation, visit NewMusicBox: http://www.newmusicbox.org/articles/miya-masaoka/. (Video recorded by Molly Sheridan; video presentation by Alexandra Gardner.)
