From February till June, 2010 I’ll be working in the old Gymnasium as part of my Headlands Center for the Arts residency. Primarily composing, instrument building, and going on lots of hikes.
Not sure if I’ll come back to civilization, but maybe!
September 2009 through January 2010
Xchange: Berlin-SF Barter is an international artist interchange program between Berlin’s ‘Inter Art Project’ and Bay Area’s ‘Thingamajigs’. Artists who represent both organizations will work together in both cities to create new work and present it in the form of concerts and symposiums. This unique opportunity allows artists and audiences from each host city to view work and listen to concerns from out of town artists and compare them to their own.
The goal of this program is to exchange (or barter) creative ideas between working artists residing in these two metropolitan centers, and to build awareness of the current thoughts and trends that encompass our art. Also, to allow audiences of both areas to witness an international movement of artists and performers they might not otherwise come in contact with.
The host organizations are currently putting the finishing details on the Bay Area portion of the exchange program. Please stay posted.
For more information on the events that happened in Berlin in September, please visit:
Audio sample of Zachary James Watkins and Edward Schocker’s performance in September:
Click here for Youtube video excerpt
Sunday, June 28 2009 at 6pm
(doors open a half hour prior to the show)
RakudoAn
2-16 Tsukasa-cho Kanda, Tokyo, Japan
Info: TEL&FAX Phone 03?3261-8015
http://www2.plala.or.jp/rakudoan/
Admission: 2,000 Yen
Thingamajigs introduces The Pacific Exchange series. The Pacific Exchange brings composers/performers from all areas of the Pacific Rim together in order to exchange/share ideas and create music on one concert stage. Thingamajigs created this event to show that the massive Pacific Ocean gives us more of a commonality than does separate us. This particular Pacific Exchange features the musical performances by Christopher Yohmei Blasdel (Japan/USA), Wayne Grim (USA), Hideo Sekino (Japan), Ji-yoon Chun (Korea), and Edward Schocker (USA). Selections of cross-cultural poetry will also be read by Judy Halebsky and friends.
Directions:
RAKUDOAN
2-16 Tsukasa-cho Kanda Phone 03?3261-8015
?Take North or West exit of JR KANDA station. Turn left and walk west along KANDA-KEISATSU DOOR (big street) till the corner of NTT building
at the third light. Turn right into CHIYODA-SHOU DORI street. Go one block the street with SAKURA-KAN (CHIYODA elementary school)
on your left hand. Turn left (into ICHI-HACHI DORI) at the end of the block (EBISU-YA Taiwanese restaurant at the right corner).
The third house on the left hand side from the corner is RAKUDOAN with a sign on the black door. The nearest subway stations
: KANDA (GINAZA line), AWAJICHO (MARUNOUCHI line) or OGAWACHO?(SHINJYUKU line). At subway KANDA station, take exit 1, 2 or 4.
From OGAWACHO/AWAJICHO station, take CHIYODA-SHOU-DORI between exits 1A and 1B. After 3 blocks south, turn right at the aforementioned
ICHI-HACHI DORI corner to find RAKUDOAN.
UPTOWN Group
401 26th Street (@Broadway)
Oakland, CA 94612
map
Preview Reception : :
Friday, June 5, 2009 6 – 9 pm
Refreshments
Music by
Edward Schocker -Hichiriki
Dylan Bolles -Bamboo Flute
Zachary Watkins -made electronics
Dylan Bolles (bamboo flute), Zachary Watkins (laptop), and Edward Schocker (hichiriki) continue their explorations of slowness at the 12th Annual Dionysian Festival, celebrating the 132nd anniversary of Isadora Duncan’s birth. Also performing will be Shoko Kikage (koto) with Mary Sano (dance), and Rebecca Whittington (classicl Indian Dance.
May 30-31, 2009 @ Mary Sano Studio of Duncan Dancing
www.duncandance.org, info@duncandance.org
August performances:
Sunday August 24, 2008 at 2:00pm
3601 Lyon St.
San Francisco, California 94123
Category: Education
Website: http://www.thingamajigs.org
Thingamajigs.org presents a concert and talk about the relationship between Math, Physics and musical composition, featuring compositions by Edward Schocker and Wayne Grim.
Thingamajigs.org and The Exploratorium present an event that describes how modern composers use physics and mathematics in musical composition. Part concert, part artist talk –this event will appeal to people of all ages and backgrounds. Works performed on the music event include Bay Area composer, Edward Schocker’s Netori for two electric guitars. By creating drones, the guitars generate counterpoints using the natural overtone series (a physical occurrence that happens in all musical sounds). Netori is a term used in Japanese Gagaku music. The word literally means “sound catcher†and is a prelude in free rhythm to set the tonality for the music to follow. This piece works much in the same way as a traditional netori, but instead uses the relationships between two different overtone series to set the tonality. Also on the bill is a world premiere work by composer Wayne Grim.
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Moment’s Notice has been on a summer hiatus — but we’ll be back on Saturday, August 30. Same time, same place, same price as usual:
8/30/08
8pm
Western Sky Studio, in the Sawtooth Building, 2525 8th St., Berkeley
$8-$15 (sliding scale; tickets available at the door)
August performers:
Liz Boubion –dance
Edward Schocker & Suki O’Kane – music
Imaginary Friends (Abhay Ghiara, Krista Gullickson & Kim Criswell, in collaboration with Edward Schocker) — physical theater
Nicole Richter & Pamela Marsh – dance with poetry & music
The Olimpias (Petra Kuppers and friends)- dance, etc.
May/June, 2008 my prestigious collegues and I will be attacking two academic institutions with border-bending, site-specific, multi-disciplinary, multi-ism events…
As part of Stanford University’s Red Rover -an outdoor traveling performance, Brenton Chen, Abhay Ghiara, and myself present Bamboo Alley, a site-specific performance piece with movement, made/found instruments, and natural occurrences. For videos, photos, and blogs on the development of the piece, please visit:
may 28 | 7-9pm free
stanford university
351 Santa Teresa Street
Red Rover is an evening of five commissioned, site-specific dance/performance
works created for and performed in a series of outdoor sites.
http://livelyarts.stanford.edu/
…and at University of California, Davis with Dylan Bolles, Stephen Ratcliffe, Zachary Watkins, Keith Evans, Michael Meyers, and me-self…
human/nature explores collaborative work in a variety of mediums and is based in the 1,000 poem document of a daily writing practice undertaken by Stephen Ratcliffe. This performance extends his investigations into the integration/ interaction of human beings and natural landscape: “the relation between things seen/observed in the world and how such things might be made (transcribed/transformed) as works of written (or visual) art.” The reading of the poems will accompany sound, light, movement and sculpture in an open dialogue with the architecture of the surrounding space. The duration of this work is not yet known, but it is likely to to go between 8 and 10 hours.
friday
june 6 | 4pm-2am free
university club, university of california, davis
響　Resonation
Sound Performance
Hibiki (resonation/vibration) of matter constitutes Space.
We unbind the implicit structure of the universe with a sonic
representation.
Artists
Glass vessel/Hichiriki flute: Edward Schocker
Shakuhachi bamboo flute: Hideo Sekino
Hochikku/Experimental instruments: Dylan Bolles
When : Saturday 5th April 7:30 pm.
Where : Mary Sano Studio of Duncan Dancing
245 Fifth St. Studio 314, San Francisco (Between Howard and Folsom)
415-357-1817
Suggested Donation : $5-10 (food and drink included)
Edward Schocker holds a Masters Degree of Art from Mills College, and has studied composition with Lou Harrison, Pauline Oliveros, and Alvin Curran. Along with receiving many awards and residencies, Edward has assembled a collection of made and found instruments for which he co-created the ‘Music For People And Thingamajigs’ festival, an annual concert devoted entirely to works of alternate tunings and/or made and found instruments.
Hideo Sekino , Shakuhachi bamboo flutist and a member of Komuso Kenkyukai (a research organization on Komuso – Zen monk, practitioner of blowing Shakuhachi as religious training). He is a director of Rakudoan, a alternative performing art space in Tokyo.
http://www2.plala.or.jp/rakudoan/
Thursday, April 26, 2007
8:00 PM
Where
1007 Market Steet
San Francisco, California 94103
$6-$10 sliding scale
Edward Schocker’s
Large Glass Bowl
with Zachary Watkins
Bill Wolter’s
Ode to Jean Baudrillard
with Sean Clute and Patricia Wakida
The first of three concerts featuring inventions in visual audio , exploring the moving boundaries between music, film, optics, graphics, loops and reels, guest curated by Suki O’Kane, musician and curator of The Illuminated Corridor.
This is Edward Schocker’s first Bay Area performance since his return from Japan, featuring the debut of a new duo with Zachary Watkins.
Bill Wolter will install and perform the live polyrhymic spinning disks “Ode to Jean Baudrillard”, which combine aural and visual polyrhythms, in a trio with Sean Clute (audio) and Patricia Wakida (video).
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Sacramento Poetry Center
Poetry reading, Monday, February 5, 7:30PM. Featuring Judy Halebsky and Theresa McCourt. Free, but donations are welcome.
Also, join us for the reunion of Judy Halebsky, Dylan Bolles, and Edward Schocker as they present an improvisation of made/found words and sound.
For more information, please visit http://www.sacramentopoetrycenter.org/ or call (916) 979-9706.
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