Raw Dates Sessions
Raw Dates Sessions is a monthly series of multi-disciplinary improvisation events. It is open to anyone willing to join and share the practice of [collective] improvisation. The aim is to build up a community of enthusiasts who will meet regularly to share this practice.

iii is an artist run, community platform supporting new interdisciplinary practices linking performance, technology and the human senses. Arising from the ArtScience tradition of The Hague, iii strives to balance technological innovation, theoretical reflection and human experience. iii contributes to international developments in the field of Art, Science & Technology, functioning both as a cultural incubator supporting research and creation, and as an agency connecting creators to a broad audience via a wide (inter)national partner network.

More information can be found here:
https://instrumentinventors.org/project/raw-dates/

A Synesthete’s Atlas: Cartographic Improvisations Between Eric Theise and Edward Schocker

Real-time cartographic improvisations using projected, manipulated digital maps by Eric Theise, in collaboration with Edward Schocker's alternately tuned instruments and made/found objects. A visual wash of street grids, land masses, water bodies, and curiosities from built and natural environments. Orphaned labels. Free-floating symbology. Redlined reverberations with redefined sonic roadmaps. Saturated colors and the subtlest of tints. Jittery zooms, pans, and traversals. Glitches from crowdsourced data.

The performance will last 45 minutes and will occasionally introduce strobing effects that may affect photosensitive viewers.

Eric Theise is a San Francisco-based artist and geospatial software developer. Through video and realtime performance tools he reinvigorates the perceptual inquiries of structural filmmakers, experimental animators, the Light and Space movement, and 60's light shows, occasionally injecting letterform experiments inspired by visual poetry, as new possibilities in the realm of digital cartography.

https://erictheise.com/

Edward Schocker is a composer and performer who creates music with made and found materials and alternate tuning systems. He studied at Mills College, where he worked with Pauline Oliveros, Alvin Curran, and independently with Lou Harrison. During his time at Mills he co-founded Thingamajigs, a Bay Area arts and education organization devoted to alternate methods of creating sound and art. His works have been performed at the Berkeley Art Museum, Stanford Lively Arts, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, Sacred and Profane Chamber Choir, Firebird Youth Chinese Orchestra, and International House in Tokyo. As a performer, he has presented work at festivals around the world, including Internationales Klangkunstfest in Berlin, Soundwave ((6)), San Francisco International Arts Festival and Culture Station Seoul 284 in South Korea.

https://www.edwardschocker.com/

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

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)

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.

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, 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, 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