Masashi Harada

Masashi Harada is a multi-disciplinary artist. He became active in free improvisation as a percussionist, pianist, and vocalist beginning in the early '90s, and started to record as a leader at the end of the decade. He also dances, and had group and solo exhibitions of his visual works, particularly his ice paintings, making him an accomplished, multi-faceted artist. All his activities can be traced back to a notion of immediacy in instant composition, what he termed "generative improvisation," where the artist constantly generates context that in turn influences the performa...