[NewMusicEvents] Roddy Schrock at Meridian Gallery - Wed. April 11

[Adria Otte]

Meridian Music: Composers in Performance presents:
Roddy Schrock
Wednesday, April 11
8:00 PM
$10 general; $5 students/seniors (no one turned away for lack of funds)

Meridian Gallery
535 Powell Street
San Francisco, CA 94108
415.398.7229
www.meridiangallery.org

Meridian Music: Composers in Performance is pleased to announce the very first concert in Meridian Gallery’s new location at 535 Powell St. The new three-storey 1911 historic mansion that now houses Meridian and all of its programs increases the performance area to a nearly 50 foot-long resonant space. Roddy Schrock will present a new piece, Here. There. (Distance Study 1). Here. There. (Distance Study 1) is a sound and image navigation of the emotional terrain of physical distance. The sound component is built from aural artifacts of long-distance communication: voicemail snippets sprayed around keyboard clicks, telephone dials, luminous drones of data transfer, whispers to oneself. The image component is built from still video portraits of intimate spaces without the other. These elements combine to create a live performance in which two people reduce distance into an aural and visual spectacle of a serene and meditative nature, a kind of comfort zone for longing.  Roddy
 Schrock (b. 1976) is a composer and sound artist who digitally mines everyday sound for the profound and canvasses the glitzy, rough edges of pop for its articulate immediacy. The thread which runs through all of his work is focus on creation of sonic space in which seemingly oppositional ideas, both musical and cultural, are forced to confront one another, creating gentle friction, unifying spiky ideas in the form of sound sculpture.
      His work has been presented in Asia, Europe, and North America, in festivals and venues such as the Hammer Museum (LA), Stanford's CCRMA, Kuunstvlai Festival (Amsterdam), STEIM (Amsterdam), Music at the Anthology (NYC), RedCat Theater (LA), Hitotsubashi University (Tokyo), Off Site (Tokyo), Mills College (Oakland), Tokyo Improvisation Festival, ShoboShobo Festival (Tokyo), and Club Metro (Kyoto).
            He is also an educator, having taught at STEIM, De Anza College (CA), and is currently the Digital Arts Coordinator for the Community School for Music and Arts in Silicon Valley. 
This concert series celebrates new, traditional, and world music through monthly performances in the intimate setting of Meridian Gallery. Tom Bickley is the curator for this concert series. 
    
 
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