[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UOqefE4hKM4[/youtube]Tonight, Japanese percussionist Tatsuya Nakatani will perform a show of improvised music upstairs at the Blue Nile as part of the Open Ears Series with Rob Cambre and Donald Miller. Nakatani employs a series of gongs, bowls and self-made instruments that are bowed or played in uncommon ways. Here he is in a solo performance from 2009.

The John Madere Group is also on the bill tonight.