Upcoming Events
LSG New Music Series
Mit Darm
RAE DIAMOND - found object, voice
SUKI O'KANE - percussion, electronics
EDWARD SCHOCKER - glass, hichiriki, shō,
May 15 @ 8:00 pm - 10:00 pm PDT
Luggage Store Gallery
1007 Market Street, San Francisco
Gagaku Performance
The Satsuki Bazaar & Art Festival
Northern California Gagaku Group plays traditional gagaku music and demonstrates the unique instruments in the gagaku ensemble.
May 19 2024, Sunday, 6-8PM
Berkeley Buddhist Temple
2121 Channing Way, Berkeley
https://www.berkeleybuddhisttemple.org/
West Oakland Sound Series
West Oakland Sound Series
BALSAMIC is a collective of sound and movement improvisers who have developed their practice in (mostly) outdoor public spaces since 2020.
KEVIN CORCORAN - percussion
RAE DIAMOND - found object, voice
SHOSHANA GREEN - movement
MEGAN NICELY - movement
SUKI O'KANE - percussion
EDWARD SCHOCKER - hichiriki, shō, ocarina
PAIGE STARLING SORVILLO - movement
Self_less (Premiere performance)
Coming from Seoul, ensemble PHASE performs a new work from Edward Schocker. Self_Less, a multipart series of musical works, examines our “sense of self” while questioning the uniformity of these perceived feelings.
Incorporating live music, projected and pre-recorded audio of stories from people who have unique neuropsychological experiences, such as Alzheimer’s disease, out-of-body experiences, epiphanies and body integrity identity disorders, Self_Less’ mission is to bring awareness of the connections among brain, body, mind, and self.
Self_Less will be created in a cross-cultural collaborative group including:
Edward Schocker (composer, director)
Keith Evans (projected images)
Erik Ehn (text arrangement)
ensemble PHASE (performing group)
Songs from Self_less
Korean traditional instrument group, ensemble PHASE, performs music of Edward Schocker in a special appearance at the Berkeley Art Museum’ Forum. Works include pieces from Schocker’s “The Crossing”, “Self_less” and others.
Performance is free with museum admission.
Clouds from a Crumbling Giant -Seattle performance
Clouds from a Crumbling Giant revolves in the cycles governing a day, year, a lifetime. The human being returns to source. Begin again. The project combines the Daoist sage Lieh-Tzu’s observations on a “Guide to Practical Living” with theatrical performance devising traditions rooted in the Japanese avant-garde.
The project’s creative team includes lighting designer Allen Willner, costume designer Rebecca A. Valentino, composer and music director Dan Cantrell (working with musicians Suki O’Kane, Edward Schocker and Jon Raskin), assistant choreographer Ann Dragich and dramaturge Miriam Wolodarski.
Clouds from a Crumbling Giant -San Francisco Performance
Clouds from a Crumbling Giant, a collaborative performance project, will be presented by the UC Davis Department of Theatre and Dance March 3-5 in the Main Theater, Wright Hall.
Devised by Granada Artist-in-Residence Shinichi Iova-Koga, the project follows the birth and death of a species, an empire, a universe, a flower. Time unfolds on stage like a wheel revolving, seeming to follow a path that becomes the snake eating its own tail. Behind the curtain, vibrations emerge to shape the earth, the rocks, the people. Clouds from a Crumbling Giant teems with stillness and wild movement, spoken text, song and sound.
The project’s creative team includes lighting designer Allen Willner, costume designer Rebecca A. Valentino, composer and music director Dan Cantrell (working with musicians Suki O’Kane, Edward Schocker and Jon Raskin), assistant choreographer Ann Dragich and dramaturge Miriam Wolodarski.
The 26th Annual Dionysian Festival
The Mary Sano Studio of Duncan Dancing Presents:
The 26th Annual Dionysian Festival:
Celebrating the 146th Anniversary of Isadora Duncan’s Birth
Artists:
Mary Sano …… Duncan dance
Adrienne Ramm …… Duncan dance
Megan Nicely ….. Butoh dance
Courtney Ramm …. Modern dance
Anna Gichan …. Contemporary dance
Tony Sano Chapman … Original contemporary piano
Merrill Collins ….. Piano/keyboard/bells
Hideo, Suki O’Kane & Edward Schocker …. Bamboo flute & Hichiriki
Date/Time:
Saturday, May 27, 2023 at 8 pm
Location:
Mary Sano Studio of Duncan Dancing
245 5th St., Studio 314
(at Tehama between Howard and Folsom)
Tickets:
$25 with advance reservation, $30 at the door
(includes beverages and hors d’oeuvres)
Reservations:
(415) 357-1817
E-mail: info@duncandance.org
Dodecachordon 7-12
Dodecachordon, a 12-part work by composer Edward Schocker, combines multiple electric guitars and the natural acoustics of a room to explore the energetic relationships between pure harmonic vibrations. Supported with live projected images by Keith Evans, Shapshifters Cinema will be transfixed with abstract projections and the deep sound of drones produced by six electric guitars. Listeners are encouraged to traverse throughout the space and explore the unique acoustic and psychoacoustic phenomena that occur.
Sharing the title with a 16th century book written by a Swiss Monk, Heinrich Glarean (1488-1563), Dodecachordon reflects the Medieval church modes into a modern light using alternate tuning systems. Neither a performance nor an installation, this 6-hour work invites audience members to come and go as they please and to stroll, lay down, or meditate within a sonically and visually altered space.
Dodecachordon 7-12
Presented by Thingamajigs and Shapeshifters Cinema
Sunday, May 21, 2023
11am - 7pm
FREE Admission
Shapeshifters Cinema
567 5th Street
Oakland, CA 94607
(510) 545-6689
connect@shapeshifterscinema.com
Dodecachordon 1-6
Dodecachordon, a 12-part work by composer Edward Schocker, combines multiple electric guitars and the natural acoustics of a room to explore the energetic relationships between pure harmonic vibrations. Supported with live projected images by Keith Evans, Shapshifters Cinema will be transfixed with abstract projections and the deep sound of drones produced by six electric guitars. Listeners are encouraged to traverse throughout the space and explore the unique acoustic and psychoacoustic phenomena that occur.
Sharing the title with a 16th century book written by a Swiss Monk, Heinrich Glarean (1488-1563), Dodecachordon reflects the Medieval church modes into a modern light using alternate tuning systems. Neither a performance nor an installation, this 6-hour work invites audience members to come and go as they please and to stroll, lay down, or meditate within a sonically and visually altered space.
Hour 1:
Dodecachordon 5
Lydian
D-E-F#-G#-A-B-C#-D (11-limit)
Hour 2:
Dodecachordon 6
Dorian
D-E-F-G-A-B-C-D (11-limit)
Hour 3:
Dodecachordon 1
Ionian
D-E-F#-G-A-B-C#-D (5-limit)
Hour 4:
Dodecachordon 2
Aeolian
D-E-F-G-A-Bb-C-D (5-limit)
Hour 5:
Dodecachordon 3
Mixolydian
D-E-F#-G-A-B-C-D (7-limit)
Hour 6:
Dodecachordon 4
Phrygian
D-Eb-F-G-A-Bb-C-D (7-limit)
Dodecachordon 1-6
Presented by Thingamajigs and Shapeshifters Cinema
Sunday, November 6, 2022
Solar Noon (11:52am) - 7pm
FREE Admission
Shapeshifters Cinema
567 5th Street
Oakland, CA 94607
(510) 545-6689
connect@shapeshifterscinema.com
Clouds from a Crumbling Giant
Clouds from a Crumbling Giant, a collaborative performance project, will be presented by the UC Davis Department of Theatre and Dance March 3-5 in the Main Theater, Wright Hall.
Devised by Granada Artist-in-Residence Shinichi Iova-Koga, the project follows the birth and death of a species, an empire, a universe, a flower. Time unfolds on stage like a wheel revolving, seeming to follow a path that becomes the snake eating its own tail. Behind the curtain, vibrations emerge to shape the earth, the rocks, the people. Clouds from a Crumbling Giant teems with stillness and wild movement, spoken text, song and sound.
The project’s creative team includes lighting designer Allen Willner, costume designer Rebecca A. Valentino, composer and music director Dan Cantrell (working with musicians Suki O’Kane, Edward Schocker and Jon Raskin), assistant choreographer Ann Dragich and dramaturge Miriam Wolodarski.
The Arc Project Festival!
Online December 11 - 19 2021
Featuring Hymn for Lou & Bill
Performed by Thomas Piercy (Hichiriki) and Lish Lindsey (Alto Flute)
Sphere – a Mainstage Dance Concert
Streaming Online
November 19 & 20, 2021 at 7:30 pm HST
November 21, 2021 at 2 pm HST
Featuring Hymn for Lou & Bill choreographed by Peiling Kao
University of San Francisco
Brenton Cheng with Vitali Kononov and musician Edward Schocker (Japanese Sho and Korean Ching) will perform Troika, a work in contact improvisation.
Western Sky Studio
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.
explOratorium
Thingamajigs.org presents a concert and talk about the relationship between Math, Physics and musical composition, featuring compositions by Edward Schocker and Wayne Grim.
The Space Between
The Space Between, an evening of new music featuring Bay Area artists Nicole Reisnour, Edward Schocker, and Zachary James Watkins, who will present new works in unusual tunings. Breaking away from traditional Western practice, these composers use alternate tunings systems to explore the space between notes.
Wayne Grim and I will premiere a piece of mine called Netori IV -part of a cycle of four electric guitar pieces in Just Intonation. meridian-pr.pdf
Human/Nature
university club, university of california, davis
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. The reading of the poems will accompany sound, light, movement and sculpture in an open dialogue with the architecture of the surrounding space. Cast: Dylan Bolles, Keith Evans, Michael Meyers, Stephen Ratcliffe, Edward Schocker, Zachary Watkins … and others.
Red Rover
Red Rover is an evening of five commissioned, site-specific dance/performance works created for and performed in a series of outdoor sites. Brenton Chen, Abhay Ghiara, and myself present Bamboo Alley, a site-specific performance piece with movement, made/found instruments, and natural occurrences.
Work in Progress | Authentic Discussion with Yugen Ensemble
works in progress | authentic discussion with Yugen ensemble with Suki O’kane, Wayne Grim and Edward Schocker with a new score for Erik Ehn’s Wholly Joan plus gusty winds may exist (Nancy Beckman and Tom Bickley) tackle a chu no mai with jubilith moore
Sacramento Poetry Center
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.