photos by Lonnie Lee

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.

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.

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:

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 poly-cultural, poly-theistic, poly-rhythmic, poly-vocal, non-linear exploration of being in the universe. Set in the here and now it investigates the disappearance of the human animal from the natural landscape.

Music created and performed by Dylan Bolles, Suki O’Kane and Edward Schocker

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 sequence about a weaver challenged to address her past. Based loosely on the struggles of art and companionship in Frida Kahlo’s life, the weaver considers the confines and opportunities of her work. Judy Halebsky’s book of poems, Sky=Empty, won the 2009 New Issues Poetry Prize and was recently named a finalist in the 80th Annual California Book Awards. Using unusual musical instruments, Thingamajigs Performance Group (featuring Suki O’Kane, Edward Schocker and Dylan Bolles) combines traditional Eastern sensibilities with modern American technologies and performance practices.

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Thingamajigs Performance Group

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)

Remarks on Color/Sound (Sound Sample 2)

Remarks on Color/Sound (Sound Sample 3)

The Meridian Gallery presents the Thingamajigs Performance Group (TPG), which will offer new works that combine Eastern sensibilities with modern American technologies and performance practices. Creating pieces in a group collaborative process that sometimes incorporate voice and other unusual musical instruments, this ensemble of musicians expands and contracts within each performance situation. This concert will feature works written for instruments created with made/found and recycled objects, Asian wind instruments and homemade electronics.

Dylan Bolles, Suki O’Kane, Edward Schocker and Zachary Watkins make up the nucleus of this new ensemble. Guest artists collaborating with TPG for this concert feature Keith Evens and others.

http://www.thingamajigs.org/programs/TPG_Meridian.html

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 ideas and create music on a single concert stage. Thingamajigs.org created this event to emphasize the commonalities of artists living on the Pacific Rim, as well as to showcase their diversity.

In connection with our San Francisco Bay Area performance, this Pacific Exchange concert will be held in Tokyo, Japan. Participants include Hideo Sekino, Ji-yoon Chun, Maria Adriana Verdaasdonk, Scott Jordan and Edward Schocker. For more information and reservations, please visit Rakudoan.

Sunday, November 21 2010 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

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.

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 world since the beginning of the millennium. For 1,000 minutes this October 16th it will be performed live by 18 musicians on a custom-built instrument in YBCA’s Forum.

Longplayer will be presented with the Long Conversation, an epic relay of one-to-one conversations among some of the Bay Area’s most interesting minds. Interpreting the Long Conversation in real time will be a data visualization performance by Sosolimited; an art and technology studio out of M.I.T.

Tickets are good for all parts of the event; the 6 hour Long Conversation, performance by Sosolimited and the 1,000 minute Longplayer performance. Members of partner organizations receive one free ticket.

Saturday October 16, 02010     • 7:00 am to 11:40 pm     • Tickets $28 • Yerba Buena Center for the Arts • 701 Mission Street San Francisco, CA 94103

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/