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)

버클리 아트 뮤지엄, 샌프란시스코 국제 예술제 공식 초청작 <SELF_LESS>,
드디어 한국 초연!

기억이 흐려지는 순간, 육체와 정신의 연결이 흔들리는 순간을 겪은 이후
나는 오롯이 '나 자신'으로 존재할 수 있는가?

미국의 작곡가 에드워드 쇼커와 한국의 앙상블 페이즈가 공동 제작한 <SELF_LESS>는 2021년 버클리 아트 뮤지엄의 온라인 레지던시 프로그램에서 일부가 처음 공개된 이후 2023년 버클리 아트 뮤지엄과 샌프란시스코 국제 예술제 특별 공연에서 세계 초연되며 관객과 평단의 주목을 받은 작품으로, 이번 공연을 통해 한국 초연을 맞이할 예정입니다.

작품의 제목인 SELF_LESS는 '스스로에 대한 감각을 넘어선 상태', 혹은 '자기 자신에 대한 균일하고 일반적인 인식이 붕괴된 상태'를 의미합니다. 인간은 통상적으로 자신의 의지와 정신을 통해 육체를 제어하며 이로부터 시간의 흐름을 인식하고 미래를 계획하는 능력을 가지고 있지만, 알츠하이머와 같이 기억과 인지의 질서가 무너지는 순간, 혹은 유체 이탈과 같은 극단적 경험을 통해 더 이상 자신의 육체와 정신을 온전히 통제할 수 없음을 자각하는 순간 우리가 일상이라 믿어왔던 세계는 전혀 다른 감각과 정서로 재편됩니다.

본 작품은 이런 'SELF_LESS'를 실제로 경험한 몇몇 이의 인터뷰 음성과 국악기의 음향, 그리고 실시간 연주와 결합된 비주얼 아트를 유기적으로 엮어내며, 이를 통해 관객은 스스로에 대한 인식이 뒤섞이고 분열되는 상태를 음악·언어·영상의 파편 속에서 체험하게 될 것입니다. 또 기억과 시간, 육체와 정신에 대한 질문을 던지며 관객 스스로가 '나 자신을 인식한다는 것'의 의미를 다시 되짚어보게끔 하는 동시대의 새로운 예술 경험을 제안하고자 합니다.

<앙상블 페이즈>

앙상블 페이즈는 도전적이고 실험적인 작업을 지속해 온 연주가의 모임으로, 한국의 전통 악기를 소재로 다양한 음악 어법을 수용하여 다채로운 작품을 창작 및 향유하고자 하는 단체입니다. 2017년 창단 이후 약 20회의 공연과 5회의 워크샵 개최, 3종의 음반 및 음원 출시와 10회의 해외 초청 공연 등을 통해 국내외 유수의 예술가와 작업한 약 50곡의 신작을 위촉 발표하였고, 본 단체의 기획 공연

HCTAN Ensemble performs music of Christine Lee and Edward Schocker

Korean-based ensemble HCTAN will perform The Offering, with text by Erik Ehn, and Grown From Seeds from Self_less. They will also perform works by the amazing composer, Christine Lee.

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TPG shares the bill with Gelsey Bell and Erin Rodgers presenting the West Coast premiere of their work Skylighght.

The TPG ensemble includes founders Dylan Bolles and Edward Schocker with interdisciplinary artist Rae Diamond, performative projection and sound artist Keith Evans, musician composer Suki O’Kane and special guest Wayne Grim.

TPG shares the bill with Gelsey Bell and Erin Rodgers presenting the West Coast premiere of their work Skylighght.

The TPG ensemble includes founders Dylan Bolles and Edward Schocker with interdisciplinary artist Rae Diamond, performative projection and sound artist Keith Evans, musician composer Suki O’Kane and special guest Wayne Grim.

TPG shares the bill with Gelsey Bell and Erin Rodgers presenting the West Coast premiere of their work Skylighght.

The TPG ensemble includes founders Dylan Bolles and Edward Schocker with interdisciplinary artist Rae Diamond, performative projection and sound artist Keith Evans, musician composer Suki O’Kane and special guest Wayne Grim.

“Rising Tides” is a full-length concert and reception featuring Japanese traditional music and performing arts in the San Francisco Bay Area

Join us for a concert featuring new solo, duet, and ensemble performances by a group of Bay Area performers of Japanese traditional music and performing arts. The work will be presented at Chevron Auditorium on March 21, 2026 and will include performances by the Northern California Gagaku Group, along with instruments such as Taiko (Japanese drumming), shakuhachi flute and western flute, and will be followed by a community reception with members of the AAPI and Japanese traditional music community.

Check out our website here for more details on the performances.

Reception details will be sent to ticket holders.

Ticket Details:

Buy the SUPPORTER ticket to receive admission to the concert and the reception.

Buy the STANDARD ticket to receive admission to the concert only.

The LOW INCOME ticket is available for students and those in-need of financial assistance.

We are delighted to invite you to our Fall 2025 Fundraiser - an afternoon of live performance, exquisite Japanese cuisine and sake, and vibrant cultural celebration, all in support of Theatre of Yugen’s mission to bring centuries-old art forms to life and share the beauty of traditional Japanese performing arts with our community.

Here’s what awaits you:

A buffet-style lunch featuring a flavorful assortment of Japanese dishes from Akari, one of San Francisco’s most authentic Kaiseki restaurants.

Selection of Sake graciously offered by our sponsor, Takara Sake USA Inc.

Live performances of traditional Japanese music by Edward Schocker, and Kyogen dances and songs by Yugen Ensemble members.

Silent auction with one-of-a-kind cultural treasures and experiences.

Learn more here:
https://www.theatreofyugen.org/fall-2025-fundraiser

Dandelion | Edward Schocker & DOSSIER 3-D Poetry/ Marion Dieterle (Germany)

Dandelion explores our sense of self while simultaneously challenging the perception of these feelings as a unified whole. In everyday life, a unified sense of self can be taken for granted. We wake up in the morning feeling comfortable and in full control of the body we are in. Yet many people have experienced events that have jolted them out of their normal state of mind. Dandelion explores these moments, using dance, music, and storytelling to reflect the emotions and experiences for the audience.

Credits :

This production is a collaboration between Edward Schocker and DOSSIER 3-D-Poetry / Marion Dieterle

Composition & Live Music & Japanese Instruments: Edward Schocker // Choreography & Dance: Marion Dieterle // Felt Objects: Julia Stefanovici // Production: Edward Schaocker, DOSSIER 3-D-Poetry / Marion Dieterle // Supported by: Utopiaggia

TACmusic presents 
Matthew Daher's The Wisdom to Know the Difference
mit Darn [Suki O'Kane, Edward Schocker]

The Wisdom to Know the Difference is Matthew Daher’s electroacoustic solo project exploring the limits and possibilities of control and agency on both sonic and spiritual levels. 

mit Darm isn the minus two project of Thingamajigs Performance Group with Edward Schocker on triggering glass, p’iri and shō, Suki O'Kane on contact mics and Jurassic pedals, creating that burst of wurst as you float in a sea of narcotic noise.

Saturday, May 10
TAC Temescal Art Center
7:30 doors
Entry by donation

The Cornelius Cardew Choir, Thingamajigs Performance Group and Pet the Tiger Instrument Inventors Collective celebrate the life and work of composer Pauline Oliveros and the release of the new book of text scores inspired by her “deep listening”. Several of the artists have scores published in this volume which will be performed alongside works by Oliveros. Audience participation in the “sonic meditations” is encouraged.

$25 suggested donation

Offering an evening of improvisational acoustic landscapes and paracinematic interventions, TPG performs from visual scores that follow the uncertainties and unexpected revelations of a life that only vaguely understands where it is going next.

Thingamajigs Performance Group (TPG) is a sound-based ensemble working co-creatively in a variety of mediums and with a wide array of local and international artists. Formed in 2008 from longtime Thingamajigs contributors, TPG continues to break new ground in performance fields such as durational performance, alternate tuning, group and open compositional formats, interdisciplinary and intercultural collaboration, and site work.

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The Cornelius Cardew Choir, Thingamajigs Performance Group and Pet the Tiger Instrument Inventors Collective celebrate the life and work of composer Pauline Oliveros and the release of the new book of text scores inspired by her “deep listening”. Several of the artists have scores published in this volume which will be performed alongside works by Oliveros. Audience participation in the “sonic meditations” is encouraged.

$25 suggested donation; byob.

No reservations, except for those with mobility issues. 415-586-3733.

Offering an evening of improvisational acoustic landscapes and paracinematic interventions, TPG performs from visual scores that follow the uncertainties and unexpected revelations of a life that only vaguely understands where it is going next.

Thingamajigs Performance Group: Edward Schoker Suki Okane Rae Diamond Keith Evans traditional/non traditional instruments + projections
&
Zachary James Watkins guitar + electro acoustics
&
Roco Cordova voice + electro acoustics

This performance is part of the exhibit, “loss & gain: text isle” a Art Ark Gallery in San Jose.

Joining Wayne Grim in the studios of KZSU for their annual Day of Noise, we will be presenting a set of sonic textures produced by ancient wind instruments, made and found objects and electronics.

Day of Noise is twenty-four hours straight of live experimentation and improvisation, featuring experimental/noise/drone bands and artists from the Bay Area and beyond. Listen in on 90.1 FM in the Bay Area or and kzsulive.stanford.edu around the world.

https://kzsu.stanford.edu/dayofnoise/2025/

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.