Aoki also has curious recording projects with Malachi Favors, Roscoe Mitchell, Don Moye, Wu Man, and other internationally renowned artists.

Aoki also directs cultural events that promote the history of Japanese artistic traditions and contemporary Asian influences in jazz.

Tatsu Aoki is an advocate for the Asian American community as well as a filmmaker, educator, composer and a performer of traditional and experimental music forms.

Starting at the age of four, Aoki was part of his family's performance crew and received traditional Tokyo geisha cultural training and studies which combined history with creativity.

He has managed or produced more than fifty albums for the label, including the Max Roach and Jon Jang collaboration The Beijing Trio.

[4] In 2016, the Miyumi Project ensemble was the official musical presenter for Yoko Ono's Skylanding installation at Jackson Park in Chicago.

He has published sample versions of films such as FLUX Project, Gate, Puzzle - Part III, Ah Sou Desuka: Is that So!, and Solution A.