Miki Naoe, Liel Fishbein, Kiyomitsu Odai

In the Valley of Dry Bones

free improvisation concert

Miki Naoe, radio

Liel Fishbein, percussion

Kiyomitsu Odai, computer & synthesizer

9/4 Fri. 2026  open 19:30 | start 20:00

¥2,500

OTOOTO Higashikitazawa

3-13-10 Kitazawa Setagaya-ku Tokyo

ECOlonie Higashikitazawa B1

Miki Naoe (radio):

Born in Kanazawa City, Ishikawa Prefecture in 1967, Miki Naoe currently lives in Yokohama.

Acclaimed as one and only performer of shortwave radio, he has played his Sony CF-5950 in real time and with no beforehand preparation for a wide variety of audiences inside and outside Japan since 2000.

He has improvised solo as well as collaborated with the artists of various categories that range from music to physical performing arts: to name a few, Keiichi Suzuki and Morio Agata.

Since 2012, he has also participated in numerous units and bands such as MIKIKAWOL (duo unit with Kawol SamarQandi), Shingetsu, jelly rope, NÖM, rakkyo-nite, YOGAN trio.

In 2021, he released the long-awaited complete solo album, "solos," which contains the grand noise suite that he created only with his radio.

Liel Fishbein (percussion):

Liel Fishbein is a composer, performer, and poet, a graduate of the Musrara School of the Arts in Jerusalem.

Drumming from the age of 10, during his years at university, he began exploring different ways to make his drums produce long tones and a variety of noise textures, using friction, musical bows, and electronics, shifting the instrument from its original rhythmic role to a melodic instrument and noise generator.

After encountering Zen Buddhism and Taoism, Liel developed a compositional language that uses the nature of the sound objects he works with, to embody concepts such as emptiness, negative space, nonattachment, and acceptance, turning the act of listening itself into a meditative practice.

Kiyomitsu Odai (computer & synthesizer):

Kiyomitsu Odai is a composer/improviser born and brought up in Tokyo, Japan. After receiving a B.A. in law from Waseda University (Tokyo), he moved to the U.S. and started his artistic career.

As an improviser (piano and computer), he has performed at numerous venues including Hotti Biscotti, WNUR (Chicago), Muddy Waters (Santa Barbara), and Dům kultury Vítkovice (Ostrava, Czech Republic). Journalist Josef Woodard mentions him as a “striking musically neo-expressionist keyboardist” in Santa Barbara News-Press.

As a composer, he has adopted multidisciplinary (mathematical, psychoacoustic, linguistic, algorithmic, etc.) approaches to his own music, pursuing the “transcendental structures” that spiritually overcome the systems within themselves. He has participated in a number of music festivals and international conferences including Ostrava Days and ICMC, and worked with both professional and non-professional orchestras; Janáček Philharmonic Orchestra, for example, featured his Passacaglia di Fibonacci in 2011. The recording of another orchestral piece of his, Menetekel：「あー、いぬ。アーメン。」, as well as his own paper on it, was published in the 22nd volume of Leonardo Music Journal in 2012.

He has studied with Don Malone, Hilda Paredes, Roscoe Mitchell, Curtis Roads, and Clarence Barlow. He holds a Ph.D. in music composition from University of California, Santa Barbara.