Music Videos.
From B.Y.O Chopsticks to GAMAN, music written by Nobuko accompanied with visual storytelling.
GAMAN
Watch the official music video for “Gaman,” a song featured on Nobuko Miyamoto's Smithsonian Folkways album '120,000 Stories’
Boyle Heights: A Place of Bridges
"BOYLE HEIGHTS: A PLACE OF BRIDGES" is one of 10 songs commissioned for Sounds of California: Boyle Heights. Sounds of California: Boyle Heights is a project of the Alliance for California Traditional Arts in collaboration with the Community Power Collective, the Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage, Radio Bilingüe and local residents to record, compose, present, and archive the local soundscape, focusing on themes of anti-displacement and belonging. Rola del Día and the The Sounds of California: Boyle Heights project are supported by the California Arts Council and California Humanities. "BOYLE HEIGHTS: A PLACE OF BRIDGES" [Un lugar de puentes] es una de las 10 canciones encargadas para Sonidos de California: Boyle Heights. Sonidos de California Boyle Heights es un proyecto de la Alianza para las Artes Tradicionales en California en colaboración con el Colectivo Poder Comunitario, el Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage, Radio Bilingüe y residentes locales para componer, presentar, y archivar el paisaje sonoro local, enfocando en temas de anti-desplazamiento y pertenencia. Rola del Día y el proyecto Sonidos de California: Boyle Heights tienen el apoyo del California Arts Council y California Humanities.
Bambutsu no Tsunagari
A video by the Performing Arts Committee of Tsuru For Solidarity calling to close the immigrant detention centers. Made by the Rice Rockettes' own Kristi Yummykochi (Nick LARGE) #NoMoreConcentrationCamps Song written by Nobuko Miyamoto, Rev. Kodani, Quetzal Flores, Cesar Castro, Martha Gonzalez
Black Lives Matter.
June 2020. Written in 2015.
What Time It On the Clock of the World?
April 2020
Eco-Vids
A series of environmental music videos with music by Nobuko Miyamoto, directed by Dan Kwong.
B.Y.O. Chopsticks
MOTTAINAI YO!
Eco-Vids is a series of environmentally-themed music videos that combine humor, factual information and song to make environmental consciousness hip, fashionable and fun. Created to reflect and engage communities of color, these videos are wiely distributed through YouTube and other social media, film festivals and community screenings.