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Suki O'Kane

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Biography:

Suki O'Kane is one of the founding members of the lo-fi sampling ensemble The Noodles (with Michael Zelner), plays percussion with Moe! Staiano's Moe!kestra! and Dan Plonsey's Daniel Popsicle, and has performed live and recorded with She Mob and the side projects of its co-founder Sue Hutchinson: mad folk duo Junior Showmanship and it's alter-ego speed metal Winner's Bitch. She has performed in realizations of Jon Brumit's Vendetta Retreat, and with Lucio Menegon in his Split Lip and Soundtrack Instumentals projects. Her long-running conversation about intermedia with Sarah Lockhart is now being occasionally expressed in drumkit duo performances of SL Morse.

She works in partnership with House of Zoka, a live recording project that has documented over ten years of creative new music in the Bay Area, is an inveterate phonographer and since 2003 has been curating performances of live music and film, such as The Illuminated Corridor, a nomadic public art project that creates streetscapes of live experimental music and performative projection.


Work-In-Progress:

Currently working on a three-year composing commission with Allen Whitman for the Theatre of Yugen, Suki is collaborating with Whitman and Bay Area musicians Lexa Walsh, Liz Allbee, Jason Stamberger, Dina Emerson, Jonathan Segel, and Moe! Staiano to create the music for The Cycle Plays: five plays performed during the course of a one-day-only presentation informed by the ritualistic Japanese Noh theater, written and directed in an ensemble process by Yugen's Artistic Associate and playwright Erik Ehn.



Email: suki@zoka.com

Upcoming Events:

Luggage Store New Music Series

1007 Market St.
@ 6th Street
SF

Thursday, Feb 25 2010 8:00 PM

Outsound Presents Full Moon Concerts - Quickening Moon

8 PM: Amar Chaudhary and his wonder-cat, Luna!

9 PM: Premiere of "Genesis" for twelve improvisers by Polly Moller: in which the inward and outward spiral of Western magical tradition teams up with the M-theory of the 11-dimensional universe to set up a musical experiment where the 11 dimensions create a brand new universe in their lab.

PERFORMERS:

Polly Moller – conductor, wind chimes
Suki O’Kane – percussion (Universal Time)
Karen Stackpole – gongs (Space)
Marianne MacDonald – harp (Space)
Sangita Moskow – sarod (Space)
Nancy Beckman - shakuhachi
Jayn Petingill - saxophones
Marielle Jakobsons - violin
Cheryl Leonard - viola
Agnes Szelag - cello
Lisa Mezzacappa - bass
Matt Davignon – drum machine (New Universe)