Edward Schocker

photos by Lonnie Lee

Part of MEDIATE’s Playback Concerts Battery Townsley Fort Cronkhite off Rodeo Beach Marin Headlands Sunday, August 7, 2011 Arrive by 5:30pm. 20 minute hike to performance site. Showtime: 6pm. A new piece created in collaboration with Adam Fong, Tako Oda and Suki O’Kane, Time Spent Looking explores the extreme resonances inside and around of this [...]

Saturday Jun 25, 2011 1:30 PM Sunday Jun 26, 2011 1:30 PM Mountain Home Studio Kentfield, CA This is not a public event, but please contact me if interested in attending. “It is by going down into the abyss that we recover the treasure of life. Where you stumble, there lies your treasure.” Joseph Campbell [...]

May 25 – 28, 2011 | 12-7pm Bridge to the Outside Youkobo Art Space, Tokyo Japan Free San Francisco composer/sound artist, Edward Schocker creates a sound installation in the garden of Youkobo Art Space. Using made and found objects collected over the last 10 years (glass, aluminum tubes and rods, bamboo, rocks, ice and rebar) [...]

Thurs –Sat, May 5-7, 8pm Thurs –Sat, May 12-14, 8pm Mondavi Center for the Performance Arts, Davis, CA General: $17/19 Students/Children/Seniors: $12-14 Devised and Directed by John Zibell Performed in collaboration with the Thingamajigs Performance Group A new work inspired by Herman Melville’s Moby Dick.  Like the novel, it is about perspectives and is a [...]

Monday April 11 at 8pm and Tuesday April 12 at 8pm. NOHspace in Project Artaud, 2840 Mariposa Street San Francisco, CA 94110 $12 at the door /$10 in advance Written by Judy Halebsky, Artist-in-Residence at Theatre of Yugen Devised in collaboration with Thingamajigs Performance Group Kahlo/Aoi: A Thread for a Nest is a noh-influenced poem [...]

Jan 22 | 8 p.m. The Meridian Gallery 535 Powell Street San Francisco, CA 94108 $10 General Admission Purchace Tickets Here Remarks on Color/Sound (Sound Sample 1) [Audio clip: view full post to listen] Remarks on Color/Sound (Sound Sample 2) [Audio clip: view full post to listen] Remarks on Color/Sound (Sound Sample 3) [Audio clip: [...]

I’ll be making an Asian Premiere of my piece called DIY Choshi. This Thingamajigs event features artists working around the Pacific Rim and include Hideo Sekino, Ji-yoon Chun, Maria Adriana Verdaasdonk, and Scott Jordan. The Pacific Exchange concert series brings composers and performers from diverse areas of the Pacific Rim together in order to exchange [...]

Suki O’Kane, Wayne Grim and Edward Schocker take part in Longplayer. Longplayer Live : 1000 seconds from Longplayer on Vimeo. The Long Now Foundation is bringing UK artist Jem Finer’s Longplayer to San Francisco for a rare 1,000 minute performance of his 1,000 year-long composition. Longplayer has been playing continually at listening posts around the [...]

Date: Monday, June 21, 2010 Time: 5:00pm – 9:00pm Location: Chapel of the Chimes Street: 4499 Piedmont Ave. City/Town: Oakland, CA 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 [...]