[NewMusicEvents] Music by the Eyeful: Edward Schocker, Bill Wolter

[Suki O'Kane]

Thursday, April 26, 2007
8:00 PM

Luggage Store Gallery
1007 Market Steet
San Francisco
http://www.outsound.org

$6-$10 sliding scale

Edward Schocker's
Large Glass Bowl
with Zachary Watkins

Bill Wolter's
Ode to Jean Baudrillard
with Sean Clute and Patricia Wakida

The first of three concerts featuring inventions in visual audio , 
exploring the moving boundaries between music, film, optics, 
graphics, loops and reels.

This is Edward Schocker's first Bay Area performance since his return 
from Japan, featuring the debut of a new duo with Zachary Watkins.
Learn more at http://www.edwardschocker.com/
Audio at http://edwardschocker.com/?page_id=26

Bill Wolter will install and perform the live polyrhymic spinning 
disks "Ode to Jean Baudrillard", which combine aural and visual 
polyrhythms, in a trio with Sean Clute (audio) and Patricia Wakida 
(video).
Learn more at http://www.tribalgenes.com/
Media at http://www.tribalgenes.com/new2/index.php?content=av


About Edward Schocker

Edward Schocker holds an M.A. in composition from Mills College, 
where he studied with Pauline Oliveros, Alvin Curran, and 
independently with Lou Harrison. At Mills, Edward founded The Music 
For People & Thingamajigs Concert, the only annual event in The Bay 
Area devoted to music for made/found instruments and alternate tuning 
systems -now in its ninth year.Edward was selected for two special 
programs through The European Dance Development Center -1998 in The 
Netherlands, and 2000 in Germany. Here he took part in and conducted 
workshops in instrument building, as well as aspects in 
composer/choreographer collaborations. Many of his dance-theater 
collaborations at this time toured throughout Europe and were 
performed by members of The Barton Workshop. In 2004 Edward was sent 
to Cyprus on a United States Federal Assistance Award to work 
together with North and South Cypriot artists in order to help build 
a bond between the two sides.

Currently, Edward lives in Tokyo, Japan and Oakland, California. His 
works are performed throughout The Bay Area and Tokyo, as well as 
featured on KZSU's (Stanford) "Day Of Noise Festival". Many of his 
scores are available through Wolf Music Publications Ltd, and can be 
found in libraries in New York, Montreal, Amsterdam, and Tokyo. This 
year, Edward was awarded The NEA/Japan-U.S. Friendship Commission 
Fellowship to research Japanese musical instruments and tuning 
systems. Through his new concert series "The Pacific Exchange", he is 
dedicated to promoting creative interactions with artists working 
throughout the Pacific Rim. Edward is currently working on the second 
volume of his book "Just Intonation For Non-Fixed Pitch Instruments".

Edward Schocker's music is a unique mixture of alternate tuning 
systems and unique instruments, combined with theater/opera. He has 
collaborated with many dancers, artists and writers to create a 
unique combination of sound, movement, and text. Enjoying 
international recognition, Edward's music has been performed in 
numerous countries throughout the world.

About Bill Wolter
Bill is a composer, multimedia artist, sound engineer and musician, 
focused on electric guitar. His music hovers around experimental 
rock, jazz, noise, new music, and all areas in between.

A restless collaborator who constantly seeks the most diverse and 
challenging musical experiences, Bill performs or collaborates 
frequently throughout the San Francisco Bay Area with a wide range of 
musicians and artists. He plays guitar in Bay Area bands Slydini, 
Innerear Brigade, Tribalgenes, and as a hired gun in other ensembles 
and bands (SF Sound, Moe!kestra, jobbing bands, etc.)

In addition, Bill creates audio/visual live performance instruments, 
working in a mixture of intermedia, performance art, theatre, and 
installation. He frequently works with Oakland multimedia group 
Double Vision and has been commissioned to do original scores for 
local dancer Amy Lewis and Alyssa Lee's group A dance company. Some 
of his musical sources and inspirations include Frank Zappa, Conlon 
Nancarrow, John Cage, John Coltrane, and Thelonious Monk, as well as 
gamelan and Southeast Asian Indian music, but like any probing artist 
he also draws creatively from other subjects, such as technological 
oppression, situationist theory, and the physiological constructions 
of sound.

Born in Chicago, Illinois in 1973, Bill caught the metal bug in 
junior high school and spent his early years as a headbanger with 
Creed guitarist Mark Tremonti. He received his first guitar in 7th 
grade, which led to the creation of his first band, Jaundice. He 
later started playing jazz in high school, becoming a dedicated 
musician after watching a vintage b&w video of John Coltrane 
Quartet's "Impressions". After starting his second band with veteran 
Chicago rhythm and blues drummer Wayne Welch, Bill went to the 
University of New Mexico in pursuit of a B.A. in music and 
philosophy, under the musical tutelage of Richard Hermann, Steve 
Block, and Chris Shultis.

In 2000, Bill moved to Oakland, California to study composition with 
Fred Frith, Pauline Oliveros, and Alvin Curran at Mills College, 
where he received his M.A. in composition.

Bill currently finds himself at the crossroads of music and 
technology. He has worked for almost five years as the music lab 
coordinator at Diablo Valley College, and also serves as part-time 
faculty in the music department teaching digital audio. Bill also has 
a solid background in professional audio production and education. 
Most recently, Bill has been teaching and supporting sound arts at 
Expression College for Digital Arts in Emeryville.
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