Meridian Music Composers in Performance presents:

Edward Schocker: Music in Series
Wednesday, May 8, 7:30PM
Meridian Gallery, San Francisco

Performers for this concert include Yun-kyong Jin, Suki O’Kane, Brian Baumbusch, Giacomo Fiori, Jean Ann and others.

Meridian Music Composers in Performance presents Edward Schocker: Music in Series, the season’s final installment in our Concert Series.  This will be a unique concert featuring the Oakland-based Edward Schocker, a composer and performer and who has been mesmerizing audiences around the world with his unique glass instruments and tunings. Edward Schocker will present an evening of works written in alternate tuning systems and a variety of non-Western performance practices. Included in the concert is an offering from two series of musical works including, Dodecachordon -exploring the treatment of musical modes through drones produced from multiple electric guitars, and Sijo -”time being” pieces, which challenge our perception of pulse.

Click here to see photos from the concert taken by Michael Zelner.

December 9, 2012 | 8pm
Berkeley Arts Space
2133 University Ave
Berkeley, CA
$10-$20 sliding scale

A program of concert versions of two works composed for Theatre of Yugen. Suki O’Kane presents music from the production Cordelia and Edward Schocker premieres The Darling Song Cycle -songs composed in conjunction with Yugen’s new production called A Minor Cycle.

The Darling Song Cycle is a new work of original songs by Edward Schocker and Greg Giovanni. Inspired by the humorous relationships of The Darling Family in the story Peter Pan, this work experiments with new storytelling approaches that expand theatrical and musical vocabularies.

The Darlings:
Mrs. Darling: Tako Oda (voice)
Mr. Darling: Tomoko Schocker (voice)
Child: Sarah Willner (violin)
Child: Sean Carson (bass)
Child: Edward Schocker (guitar)

The Darling Song Cycle was created with the support of the East Bay Community Foundation’s East Bay Fund for Artists and the Zellerbach Family Foundation.

Date: Jul 20,2012
08:00 PM – 10:00 PM
Meridian Gallery
535 Powell Street
San Francisco, CA 94108

Berlin composer/performer Markus Wettstein joins Bay Area natives Betsey Biggs, Dylan Bolles & Edward Schocker for a concert of new works and improvisations for solos, duos, trios and quartets. From human voices and scrap metal to Asian instruments and live electronics these artists create unique sound textures in each performance setting.

Markus Wettstein -scrap metal, melodica
Betsey Biggs -electronics
Dylan Bolles -bamboo instruments
Edward Schocker -Sho, hichiriki & glass

I have received a grant from the East Bay Community Foundation for a commission of a new work called The Darling Song Cycle. In order to receive the funds, I must match the grant on a 1 to 1 ratio with individual contributions from the community by June 22nd, 2012. Please consider a donation today to help me reach my goal of $2,000. No amount is too small (or too big), so please show your support for the local arts!

Donations are fully tax-deductible through a partnership with non-profit groups Thingamajigs and Theatre of Yugen. You can make a donation in any of these two ways:

Donate by credit card or paypal by clicking the link below:

 

or send a check payable to Theatre of Yugen (please add Darling Song Cycle to the memo of the check) at:

Many thanks to the growing list of contributors of The Darling Song Cycle:

Elizabeth Olson
Sara Matsui-Colby
Magdalene Crowley
Katy Luo
Yukie and Peter Fujimoto
John Oglevee
Sinclair Crockett
June Watanabe
Karen Marek
Jubilith Moore
Christopher Lewis
Elaine Chu
Elizabeth Barry
Suki O’Kane
Shari and Douglas Higashi
Judy Halebsky
Melanie Schauwecker
Lluis Valls
Laurence Kominz
Annete Clear
Joe Lasqo
Jeffrey Elman
Takeshi Oda
Masa Yasuhara
William Cox
Shirley Skeel
Xiaozhen Yee
Marco Falcioni & Miwako Sato
Esther & Pat Sablan
Brenda Hutchinson
Joe and Christina Zeoli
Andrew Williams & Shizue Seo
Phil Everitt & Sarah Shin
Hugh Dunnigan
Edward & Catherine Schocker
Luciano Chessa
Dana & Shinichi Iova-Koga
Ben (Precious Moments) Bedard
Brian Zawacki & Doris Ung

The Darling Song Cycle is partially funded by New Music USA and The Zellerbach Family Foundation.

The Darling Song Cycle is a new series of original songs being composed by Edward Schocker, with lyrics by Greg Giovanni. Inspired by the Darling Family in J.M. Barrie’s classic Peter Pan, the subject matter from this domestic drama ranges from funny to sad to absurd. The work will be premiered in Oakland and San Francisco in December 2012.

 

Song Highlight:
The Sewing -sung by Mrs. Darling in the story of Peter Pan. The children’s mother is patiently waiting by the window for her children to return from Neverland. As she’s waiting she sings this song while sewing and mending her children’s clothe.

Listen to an acoustic excerpt of The Sewing sung by Melanie Schauwecker and Karen Marek:

Upcoming work in progress showings:

Sundays and Mondays
May 6 – 21, 2012 at 7pm
NOHspace (View Venue)
2840 Mariposa Street
San Francisco, CA 94110
Purchase Tickets Online

In addition, On May 13th, from 5:30 – 6:30, composer Edward Schocker will host West Coast: Looking East, illuminating the reasons why experimental composers from the West look towards the traditional music of the East for inspiration.

These showings are partly funded by New Music USA, The Zellerbach Family Foundation and individual donations.

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photos by Lonnie Lee

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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 historic WWII harbor fortification overlooking the ocean in the hills of the Marin Headlands. August 7 features performances by electroacoustic duo Date Palms w/ Trevor Montgomery & Michael Elrod, vocal dance ensemble M. Mara Ann’s Sugar Pine Tesla, and composer/sound artist Edward Schocker w/ Suki O’Kane, Adam Fong, & Tako Oda.  Site can be windy and foggy even on a sunny day. We highly recommend warm clothes, blankets and proper foot attire. Limited Attendance.
Tickets are $20 advance to $200 sponsorship levels
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Audio excerpts from Battery Townsley:
(to hear the resonance of the room, it’s best to listen with headphones or good speakers)

Introduction and experimenting with voice

Experimenting with Sho

Experimenting with Hichiriki

*talking in the background is from tours that the National Park Service was giving at the time. Many thanks to the NPS for letting me in the bunker!

Here’s some video footage of the event, taken by MarK McBeth:

110807 Edward Schocker Time Spent Looking from Mark McBeth | Projects on Vimeo.

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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

“Between Shadow and Light” is an interdisciplinary performance work conceptualized and directed by Iu-Hui Chua and Joy Cosculluela with a multi-talented cast of stunning musicians, dancers, poets, and visual artists. Using movement, visual art, and live, original music and poetry, the piece travels from a studio setting to the natural environment of a redwood grove.*

*This event is held in a private residential property. All attendees must sign a liability waiver form before show begins. Thank you for your participation.

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Bridge to the Outside

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) the garden will be transfixed with sound instigated from the outside environment. Acting as a bridge between the garden and the outside elements, these unique sound objects create a heightened sense of space and situation.

The garden and installation will be open for viewing, and there will be an informal performance/demonstrations by Edward Schocker and guest artists (including Scott Jordan, Asuka Itagaki and Hideo Sekino) on Saturday May 28th.

Below is a video of the set up for The Bridge to the Outside:

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