Mobius Live! Presents Tatsuya Nakatani with Marie Carroll and Forbes Graham

April 11, 2026

The Lilypad

1353 Cambridge St

Cambridge, MA 02138

Doors 4:30pm, Music 5pm

$20 (no one turned away for lack of funds)

Duo:

Forbes Graham (trumpet) + Marie Carroll (koto)

Solo:

Tatsuya Nakatani (percussion)

Trio:

Tatsuya Nakatani, Marie Carroll, and Forbes Graham

Bios:

Tatsuya Nakatani

Tatsuya Nakatani is an avant-garde percussionist, composer, and artist of sound. Active internationally since the 1990s, Nakatani has released over 80 recordings and tours extensively, performing over 150 concerts a year. His primary focus is his solo work and his large ensemble project, the Nakatani Gong Orchestra. He teaches master classes and lectures at universities and music conservatories around the world. Originally from Japan, he makes his home in the desert town of Truth or Consequences, New Mexico. With his activity in new music, improvisation, and experimental music, Nakatani has a long history of collaboration.

Nakatani's distinctive music centered around his adapted bowed gong, supported by an array of drums, cymbals, and singing bowls. In consort with his personally hand-carved Kobo Bows, he has spent decades refining and developing his sound as an arrangement of formations of vibrations, incorporated in shimmering layers of silence and texture. Within this contemporary work, one can still recognize the dramatic pacing, formal elegance and space (ma) felt in traditional Japanese music.

Marie Carroll

marie carroll is an american composer-improviser, electroacoustic musician, and koto player.

her work is influenced by natural phenomena and explores themes of liminality and transience. she enjoys using analog synthesizers and effects units.

Forbes Graham

Forbes Graham is a trumpet player, electronic musician, and composer living and working in Boston, Massachusetts. He is the founder of the Rock Flint Artists Retreat, and has appeared at numerous festivals including High Zero, Full Force, and Vision.