American musician and composer who performs on the 17-string Japanese koto zither, born 1958 in Washington, D. C., USA.
Artist's copyright page may be found here.
ALBUMS
Robert Dick, Joëlle Léandre, Miya Masaoka
Solar Wind
2019, CD, Album, Not Two Records, 
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, Free Improvisation
Myra Melford, Zeena Parkins, Miya Masaoka
M Z M
2017, 
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, Free Improvisation
Anthony Braxton - Miya Masaoka
Duo (DCWM) 2013
2016, 2xCD, Album, Rogueart, 
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, Avant-garde Jazz
Miya Masaoka
Triangle Of Resistance
2016, CD, Innova Recordings, ,
, Contemporary
Masaoka* · Chen* · Grüsel* · Nagai*
Masaoka · Chen · Grüsel · Nagai
2010, CD, Album, Resipiscent
Pauline Oliveros / Miya Masaoka
Accordion Koto
2007, CD, Album, Deep Listening, ,
, Free Improvisation/Experimental/Drone
Miya Masaoka
While I Was Walking, I Heard A Sound...
2005, CD, Album, Solitary B
Miya Masaoka / Joan Jeanrenaud
For Birds, Planes & Cello
2005, CD, Album, Solitary B
Alex Cline, Kaoru (4), Miya Masaoka, G.E. Stinson
Cloud Plate
2005
Vinkeloe* / Cremaschi* / Masaoka* / Robair*
Klang. Farbe. Melodie.
2004, CD, 482 Music, ,
, Free Improvisation
Larry Ochs / Joan Jeanrenaud / Miya Masaoka
Fly Fly Fly
2004, CD, Album, Intakt Records, Intakt Records
Peter Kowald / Miya Masaoka / Gino Robair
Illuminations (Several Views)
2003
Butcher* / Masaoka* / Robair*
Guerrilla Mosaics
2002
Miya Masaoka / LENGOW & HEyeRMEarS
Sound Off 1999/2000 - Beams & Waves
2000, CDr, Album, SNEH
Maybe Monday - Fred Frith, Miya Masaoka, Larry Ochs
Saturn's Finger
1999, CD, Album, BUZZ-Records
George Lewis / Miya Masaoka
Duets
1998, CD, Album, Music & Arts, ,
, Contemporary Jazz/Free Improvisation
Jon Rose / Miya Masaoka
Sliding
1998, CD, Album, Noise Asia
DeGruttola* • Kaiser* • Masaoka*
The Seance
1996, CD, Album, Vexed
Philip Gelb, Gino Robair, Miya Masaoka, Dana Reason (2), Shaking Ray Levis
Purple Wind
1996, CD, Album, Ryokan, ,
, Free Jazz/Contemporary Jazz/Free Improvisation
Miya Masaoka, Tom Nunn, Gino Robair
Crepuscular Music
1995, CD, Album, Rastascan Records, ,
, Free Improvisation
Miya Masaoka
Compositions • Improvisations
1993, CD, Album, Asian Improv Records
Eugene Chadbourne, Miya Masaoka
Chad & Miya
VHS, Not On Label (Eugene Chadbourne Self-Released), ,
, Avantgarde/Experimental/Free Improvisation
Brew
Heat & Between Reflections
2023, 2xCD, Album, Clean Feed
East-West Collective
Humeurs
2013, CD, Album, Rogueart
Maybe Monday
Unsquare
2008, CD, Album, Intakt Records, 
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, Free Improvisation
Ochs - Masaoka - Lee
Spiller Alley
2008, CD, Album, RogueArt
Masaoka Orchestra
What Is The Difference Between Stripping & Playing The Violin?
1998, CD, Album, Les Disques Victo
Miya Masaoka Trio
Monk's Japanese Folk Song
1997, CD, Album, Dizim Records, Dizim Records
APPEARANCES +
Raed Yassin
Phantom Orchestra
2025, 2xLP, Album, Morphine Records, 
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, Experimental/Electroacoustic/Free Improvisation/Avantgarde/Sound Collage
Olivia De Prato
Panorama
2023, File, FLAC, MP3, New Focus Recordings
William Parker
Universal Tonality
2022, 2xCD, Centering Records, ,
, Free Jazz/Avant-garde Jazz
Jane Ira Bloom
Picturing The Invisible: Focus 1
2022
Fred Frith
All Is Always Now (Fred Frith Live At The Stone)
2019, 3xCD, Album, Intakt Records
Myra Melford
12 From 25
2018
James Ilgenfritz
Origami Cosmos
2017, CDr, Infrequent Seams, Infrequent Seams, ,
, Contemporary
Agustí Fernández*, Jane Rigler
Mandorla 2
2016, 10xFile, FLAC, BruitCollage
Ingrid Laubrock
Serpentines
2016, ,
, Avant-garde Jazz/Free Improvisation
SLM Ensemble
Source
2015, CD, Album, Liminal Music, ,
, Free Improvisation/Avant-garde Jazz
Earl Howard
Granular Modality
2012, CD, Album, New World Records, ,
, Contemporary/Free Improvisation
Jon Rose
A Festival Of Strings
2010, 2xFile, MP3, VBR, ISSUE Project Room
Various
Nachtjournal 2009
2010, CD, Comp, Ltd, Satelita Musikverlag, ,
, Abstract/Free Improvisation/Experimental
David Toop
Sound Body
2007, CD, Album, Samadhisound, 
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, Acoustic/Avantgarde/Experimental/Ambient
Various
On Isolation
2006, CD, Comp, Room40, 
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, Experimental/Minimal/Ambient
George Lewis
Sequel (For Lester Bowie)
2006, CD, Album, Intakt Records, Intakt Records, ,
, Experimental/Free Improvisation
Francis Wong With Lawson Fusao Inada
Legends & Legacies
2004, CD, Asian Improv Records,
Fred Frith / Maybe Monday
Digital Wildlife
2002, CD, Album, Winter & Winter
Various
soundCd no. I
2002, 2xCD, Album, Comp, Ltd, soundNet recordings, ,
, Experimental/Free Improvisation
Christian Wolff
Burdocks
2001, CD, Album, Tzadik
John Ingle & Dan Joseph
Trancepatterns
2000, CD, Dendroica Music
Various
Hallelujah, Anyway- Remembering Tom Cora
1999, 2x CD, ,
, Free Jazz/Folk Rock/Alternative Rock/Avantgarde/Contemporary Jazz
L. Subramaniam
Global Fusion
1999
Ben Goldberg
Twelve Minor
1998, CD, Album, Avant, 
,
, Contemporary Jazz
Toshiko Akiyoshi Jazz Orchestra Featuring Lew Tabackin
Monopoly Game
1998, CD, Album, Novus J, BMG, BMG,
Various
The Texaco New York Jazz Festival Radio Series: Live At The Knitting Factory
1998, 6xCD, Promo, Knitting Factory Records,
What We Live / Lisle Ellis
What We Live Fo(u)r
1996, CD, Album, Black Saint
Radim Zenkl
Strings & Wings
1996, CD, Album, Shanachie, Shanachie, ,
, Folk
Various
Wavelength Infinity: A Sun Ra Tribute
1995, 2xCD, Rastascan Records, Rastascan Records, ,
, Free Jazz/Space-Age/Big Band
Steve Coleman And The Mystic Rhythm Society
Myths, Modes And Means
1995, 
,
, Contemporary Jazz
Steve Coleman
Steve Coleman's Music : Live In Paris
1995, 3x CD, Box Set, ,
, Contemporary Jazz/Modal
Various
Music Overheard
2006, 2xCD, Album, Comp, The Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, ,
, Experimental/Avant-garde Jazz/Free Improvisation/Field Recording/Musique Concrète
Various
Musical Corr≡la(c)tivity
2005, CD, UKF Nitra, 
Various
Azadi!
2003, 2xCD, Comp, Ltd, Fire Museum Records, Electro Motive Records, ,
, Noise/Indie Rock/Political/Avantgarde/Experimental
Various
Sounds Like 1996: Music By Asian American Artists
2xCD, Comp, Innocent Eyes & Lenses
Various
Live At Cultural Labyrinth Volume One
CDr, Comp, Cultural Labyrinth