Posuposu Otani & Kenichi Iwasa

Posuposu Otani and Kenichi Iwasa play St. Mary Magdalene Church in Willen on Saturday 14 November, a collaboration between Pooleyville and RnD. It's a pairing of two Japanese musicians working in very different ways: Otani is a throat singer and songwriter; Iwasa is an improviser and multidisciplinary artist. Both have spent years building their practices in Japan and the UK, and this is them sharing a stage in Milton Keynes.

Otani was born in 1972 and raised in Kamakura. His music works with rich harmonics and fluid rhythms, and he draws on an instrumental palette of open-tuned guitar and the Kohkin, the Jew's Harp. He started experimenting with home recordings on a four-track tape deck when he was twenty, and that early interest in recording continues to run through his work. His throat singing provides a distinct, resonant foundation that he builds around with the guitar and the Kohkin.

Iwasa is a London-based improviser and multidisciplinary artist, also from Japan. Over more than two decades he's remained a somewhat enigmatic presence in the music scene, building his reputation almost entirely through live performance rather than records. That's the side of his work that will be on display here: the immediate, improvised response of a performer who's spent twenty years playing out in the open.

The venue is St. Mary Magdalene Church in Willen, a Grade I listed church built in 1680. It was designed by Robert Hooke, the scientist, inventor and architect who was a key figure of the Restoration era. The performance runs from 4:30 pm to 7:30 pm, and tickets are £10 per person plus booking fee.