Performance | Reduction 11
December 19, 20256:30 pm - 8:30 pm
About the Event
In tandem with the exhibition Yoko Ono: Music of the Mind, Asian Improv aRts Midwest & Tsukasa Taiko are delighted to present Reduction 11 as part of our annual end-of-year concert series.
This year’s program features the music of Yoko Ono’s SKYLANDING, a project recorded by Tatsu Aoki’s The MIYUMI Project in 2016 in collaboration with Yoko Ono for her sculpture in Jackson Park. The MIYUMI Project plays with Tsukasa Taiko to present this project on the theatrical stage with traditional Japanese music & dance. Reduction 11 also marks the last of the 30th anniversary of the Chicago Asian American Jazz Festival programming this year, celebrating three decades of jazz and experimental music by Asian and Asian Americans in Chicago.
Featuring: Tatsu Aoki, Nicole Mitchell, Michael Zerang, Hamid Drake, Dee Alexander, Mwata Bowden, Edward Wilkerson Jr., Rami Atassi, Jamie Kempkers, Eigen Aoki, Kioto Aoki, and Gintenkai from Tsukasa Taiko.
This year’s pre-show performance highlights Kioto Aoki & Helen Nagata playing an original Gintenkai piece, Hatakun, for the final public presentation of the Folk Arts Mentorship Program grant supported by the Illinois Arts Council.
Pre-show performance is 6:30–7 pm; Reduction 11 is 7–8:30 pm.
Additionally, Asian Improv aRts Midwest & Tsukasa Taiko present Taiko Legacy 22 on December 20 at 2 pm. Tsukasa’s performance unit, Gintenkai, is joined by the next generation of community performers and longtime collaborators Melody Takata and members of GenRyu Arts from San Francisco to present the simplified grandeur of contemporary taiko with traditional aesthetics. Buy tickets for this performance.
Related Exhibition
October 18, 2025 - February 22, 2026
Yoko Ono: Music of the Mind
Funding
Lead support for the 2025–26 season of MCA Talks is made possible by The Richard and Mary L. Gray Lecture Series through a generous gift to the Chicago Contemporary Campaign.
Generous support is provided by The Antje B. and John J. Jelinek Endowed Lecture and Symposium on Contemporary Art; the Kristina Barr Lectures, which were established through a generous gift by The Barr Fund to the Chicago Contemporary Campaign; The Gloria Brackstone Solow and Eugene A. Solow, MD, Memorial Lecture Series; and the Allen M. Turner Tribute Fund, honoring his past leadership as Chair of the Board of Trustees.