I’ll be performing with Adam Fong and Ken Ueno for this year’s Garden of Memory event. Come join us and many other artists in this massive performance. Click below for an audio sample of Fong-Schocker-Ueno:

New Music Bay Area and Lifemark Group/Chapel of the Chimes present their popular summer solstice celebration “Garden of Memory: a Columbarium Walk-Through Concert to Celebrate the Solstice” at the Chapel of the Chimes, a labyrinthine Julia Morgan-designed columbarium and mausoleum replete with gardens, fountains, and stained-glass skylights at 4499 Piedmont Ave. in Oakland on Monday, June 21 from 5 to 9 pm.

Described by the San Francisco Chronicle’s Joshua Kosman as
“a walk-through fun house of musical and visual splendor,”the concert features simultaneous performances in different parts of the building by Bay Area composers, musicians, and other performers presenting a variety of acoustic and electronic music, installations, and interactive events; the audience is free to move throughout the building during the performances. Admission is $15 general, $10 students and seniors, $5 kids under twelve.

Tickets are available at http://www.brownpapertickets.com/

For information, visit http://www.gardenofmemory.com/

May 16 | from Sunrise to Sunset
Remarks on Color / Sound
Headlands Center for the Arts | Gym Studio
944 Fort Barry, Sausalito, CA 94965
Directions to Headlands

Remarks on Color / Sound is a 14-hour piece, which explores collaborative work in a variety of mediums and is based in a reading of Stephen Ratcliffe’s poem by the same title (written between 7.15.05 and 4.8.08 – 1,000 pages in 1,000 consecutive days). Utilizing sound, light, movement and sculpture in an open dialogue with the architecture of the surrounding space, this performance extends investigations into the integration/interaction of human beings and natural landscape begun in our 2008 performance, human/nature, at UCDavis: “the relation between things seen/observed in the natural world and how such things might be made (transcribed/transformed) as works of written (or visual) art.”

Remarks on Color / Sound will take place in the Gym Studio at Headlands Center for the Arts, where Thingamajigs’ cofounder Edward Schocker is currently an Artist in Residence. The performance will be held on the same day as the 2009/ 2010 Graduate Fellows Exhibition opening, which takes place in Building 944 (3rd Floor) on the Headlands campus. Headlands Center for the Arts hosts an internationally recognized Artist in Residence program, as well as interdisciplinary public programs, aiming to create dialogue and exchange that build an appreciation for the role of art in society. Find out more at headlands.org.

The historic gymnasium of the Headlands Center for the Arts offers an ideal location for this event. As the sunlight moves through the giant windows the shadows and hues create an ever-changing landscape. The piece starts at 5:59 AM (sunrise) and ends when the entire work has bee spoken (approx. 14 hours).  Audience members are encouraged to come in and out of the space as they wish, or to bring a pillow or mat and stay as long as you would like. You might even go for a hike or a picnic and come back.

“That which I am writing about so tediously, may be obvious to someone whose mind is less decrepit.” – Wittgenstein, Remarks on Color

Directions: Headlands Center for the Arts is accessible from San Francisco by MUNI Bus #76, which runs every hour on Sundays between 9:30AM and 5:30PM. For directions, visit www.headlands.org or call 415-331-2787 x2

Lindsey White, If We Let Ourselves Go, C-Print, 2008

Date: 4/18/2010 (Sunday)
Time: 12:00 PM – 5:00 PM
Location: Headlands Campus

Ticket Info: Admission is Free!

Mess Hall Café with food for sale open Noon – 4:30PM

Join us for the first Open House of 2010! This is your only chance this spring to meet with Headlands’ Artists in Residence (AIRs), Affiliate Artists, and Graduate Fellows in their studios, and discover what the artistic process can look like among writers, musicians, dancers, choreographers and visual artists of all kinds. You’ll also have a chance to explore historic 1907-era buildings, listen to literature readings, discuss works-in-progress with any artists you meet, watch music and dance performances, and enjoy a delicious homemade lunch in the Mess Hall Café.

Some of the Bay Area’s best artists and performers have honed their chops at the Headlands Center for the Arts and its open house events are a great opportunity to see what’s new in the arts and who’s going to be the next big thing.
– San Francisco Chronicle

SCHEDULE OF EVENTS
**Stay posted! Other presentations TBA.**

1PM, 2:30PM, 3:30PM | GYM BUILDING
Edward Schocker, Dylan Bolles, Suki O’Kane, and Zachary Watkins make up the nucleus of a new ensemble that combines traditional Eastern sensibilities with modern American technologies and performance practices. Creating pieces in a group collaborative process that sometimes incorporate voice and additional instruments, this ensemble of musicians expands and contracts within each performance situation.

1PM, 3PM | RODEO ROOM, 2nd FLOOR, BUILDING 944
Ariel Goldberg presents: The Photographer who feels every picture taken will join the Photographer who wonders where all the pictures are going will join the Photographer surrounded by natural & man-made beauty, will join the Photographer bringing current images of the military to obsolete military structures will join a chorus of journalists and other guest photographers to perform a theatrical poetic-criticism on the current state of photography in the form of a Press Conference followed by a Question & Answer. The Photographers’ archive of performances and installations at the Headlands and Golden Gate Bridge will also be on display.

2 – 2:45PM | EAST WING, 2nd FLOOR, BUILDING 944
LJ Moore (AIR ‘10), Megan Pruiet (Affiliate ‘08-’10) and Sarah Rosenthal (Affiliate ‘09-’10) will read from selected writing

3PM | EAST WING, 2nd FLOOR, BUILDING 944
Videos by AIR Stina Wirfelt from Sweden/Scotland

Edward Schocker's glass instrument

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!

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:

The Inter Art Project

Audio sample of Zachary James Watkins and Edward Schocker’s performance in September:

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.

Video sample on YouTube

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

www.proartsgallery.org

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

Sunday August 24, 2008 at 2:00pm

explOratorium

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.

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:

http://bambooalley.ning.com/

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