News:

Department of Real Estate: D.R.E. A new funky noise band with Kio Griffith (prepared guitar, hakone, toy accordion and effects), Peter Watkinson (bass and effects) and Alan Nakagawa (drums and loops) began April 15, 2008 and is playing throughout Los Angeles.

OTONOMIYAKI; Alan and Kio Griffith team up to begin a new collaboration called otonomiyaki. They currently have an installation work about childhood memories of the kitchen at the Center for the Arts in Eagle Rock CA and will be participating in SOUNDWALK 2008, 5 to 10PM, Saturday, September 20 in Long Beach CA's East Village.

*FOUND SOUND, February 14, 15, 16, 2008, as part of the opening festivites of the Brod Contemporary Art Museum at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Alan Nakagawa was asked to create a sound project. He decided to ask fellow artists Joseph Hammer, Steve Roden, Kio Griffith, Mike the Poet, Steven M. Irvin, The Mary Tyler Smores and Mona Kasra to collaborate with him and produce a four hour sound performance on each of the three day opening event. The project was called FOUND SOUND.

*FINGERED SEVEN @ Highways, Santa Monica CA, Friday and Saturday September 28 and 29, 2007. A series of sound and multi-media performance by EZTV (Michael Masucci, Kate Johnson and Donna Sternberg), Collage Ensemble Inc. (Mona Kasra/Alan Nakagawa), Peter Watkinson/Suji Lee, and Jeffery Mohr

* It's a battle zine: a zine documenting artists who have experienced battle and related life stories

* Amino Acid Micro Opera, 18th Street Arts Complex, ,Santa Monica CA, February 4, 2006. The collective performed to a packed crowd a special multi-media performance including outdoor video projection, live sound and chef Hiromi Sato. Performance was created by Collage Ensemble including Mona Kasra, Alex Alferov and Alan Nakagawa. Performance was pick of the week in the LA Weekly

* LA Menu Munchies, a DVD that collages food and culture in Los Angeles premiered at the Japanese American National Museum, Los Angeles CA on September 7, 2006. DVD was created by Collage Ensemble including Mona Kasra, Alex Alferov and Alan Nakagawa. Review of project at: http://www.janmstore.com/sojinkim.html

* Collage Ensemble launches, on February 19, 2007, it's blog for it's "It's a Battle" zine: http://itsabattleproject.blogspot.com/

* Alan Nakagawa lecturers about Collage Ensemble Inc. at California State University Northridge. February 20, 2007.