Ritsu Katsumata

Ritsu Katsumata is a performer-composer of music for synthesized electric violin and digital loops and a technology junkie. Often collaborating with artists of multiple media, she orchestrates live audio collages in the form of an interdisciplinary, improvisational jam session. Dancers, visual artists, thespians and musicians in spaces near and far “converse” in the language of performance, layering loops of memories just passed with the moments as they pass. Manifested in sound, video, gestures, color and textures, the resulting performance simultaneously transforms and transcends expectations as well as the role of the audience as a network of collaborators.