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Leyya Mona Tawil
Ava Koohbor
Wilson Shook / Aine Nakamura / Kevin Corcoran

Live performances for sound and movement / CD release for Shook/Corcoran/Nakamura

This event is a Gaza Mutual Aid Solidarity fundraiser / $10-20 suggested donation
Door proceeds will go towards: https://linktr.ee/gazamutualaidsolidarity

We will also be celebrating the release of Procession, a new recording by Wilson Shook, Kevin Corcoran, and Aine Nakamura.

An improvising trio since 2023, Wilson Shook, Kevin Corcoran, and Aine Nakamura create a atmosphere of heightened concentration, restraint, and purposeful recontextualization of sounds, affects, and relationships with each other and with a particular moment in the world. There is an oblique lyricism, and a non-programmatic ritual intensity to the work, which evokes Butoh, Deep Listening, Artaud's Theater of Cruelty, and a sort of animist ecomusicology. Procession, while an ultimately incomplete document of a practice that is multi-sensory, experiential, and site-specific, nevertheless presents a compelling point of entry into the trio's artistic world.


Artist Bios:

Leyya Mona Tawil is an artist, curator and cultural activist. She is a performer working with sound, dance, and hybrid transmissions. Tawil is a Syrian, Palestinian, American engaged in the world as such. Her work has been presented throughout the US, Europe, Russia and the Arab region.

Her work has been presented throughout the US, Europe, Russia and the Arab world. Her work as 'Lime Rickey International' has been commissioned by Abrons Arts Center (NYC), KONE Foundation (Helsinki), New Performance Turku (Turku-FI), Serendipity Arts Festival 2023 (Goa), ZVRK Festival (Bosnia), Fire Museum Presents (Philadelphia), and Walk with Amal (Washington DC). Her work FUTURE FAITH was nominated for a 2019 “Bessies” Award in Music.

Recent engagements include new digital work (Malayeen.Space) - developed at the Wysing Art Centre/British Council (UK), Sharjah Art Foundation’s Tarek Atoui Sound Residency (UAE), performances at The Lab (San Francisco), JAM3A Festival (Dearborn), LACMA (Los Angeles) and ISSUE Project Room (NYC).

Tawil is on the curatorial team of the Live In America Festival and Southern Exposure Gallery (SF), and was the 2020 ISSUE Project Room Suzanne Fiol Curatorial Fellow for her NOMADIC SIGNALS series. She is a 2024 guest curator at the Arab American National Museum (Dearborn) and also works with Al Bustan Seeds of Culture (Philadelphia) She is the founding director of TAC Temescal Arts Center (Oakland) and Arab.AMP – a platform for experimental live art, music, and ideas from the SWANA diaspora and our allied communities.

https://www.danceelixirlive.org/


Ava Koohbor is a poet, visual and sound artist. Through sound, words, and objects she seeks to find balance in everyday’s chaos. Her latest works have been exhibited and performed at Audium, APICC Festival 2023: Reimagine Horizons, and as a part of group exhibition at RootDivision: ME in a(ME)rica. Her latest publication, a collection of her poetry, Death Under Construction, has been published by Ugly Duckling Presse. She believes that each artist is a medium to transfer the world of possibilities to what is. She holds an MFA in Electronic Music from Mills College.

https://avakoohborarts.com/


Kevin Corcoran works with percussion, field recordings and electronics with an interest in sound as it moves through contexts of music, art, communication and place.

As a percussionist he is mostly focused on extended techniques which emphasize textural sound, friction, sympathetic vibration, sustained tones and the use of found objects. This approach favors freely arranging events in duration over marking time by rhythm. Whether working in sparse sound with a single drum and cymbal or frenetic contexts on the drum kit, improvisation is crucial to his practice as generative method and non-hierarchical exchange of ideas.

In field recording practice he listens and interacts with sites and objects. Specific interests in abandoned architecture, urban excess, toxicity, decay, and intersections of infrastructure and open space lead to noticing intentional and incidental details of places. Electronic sound features in his work through the use of cassette tapes, computer software, feedback systems and various means of amplification.

Based in San Francisco, California, Kevin collaborates across disciplines and borders performing in the United States, Mexico, Europe, Japan, South Korea, China and Taiwan with musicians, dancers, filmmakers, writers and visual artists. In addition to making live and recorded sound and music, he works with sound installations, text, and video works.

Beyond his own work he is a co-organizer of the concert series Re:Sound which takes place in a disused munitions magazine on Mare Island and operates under 23Five, a long running nonprofit dedicated to the increased awareness of sound in the arts.

kevincorcoran.net


Singer, performer and composer Aine Nakamura creates an art of voice and body, focusing on nuanced possibilities of voice and weaving of stories. Her solo performances include "Under an Unnamed Flower," the winning work for site-specific performance at the 2022 Venice Biennale, and her performance project "Circle hasu We plant seeds in the spring of mountains" at Berliner Festspiele's 2022 Theatertreffen. Awardee of the Fulbright Fellowship (Berlin 2021-2022). Current Ph.D. student at U.C. Berkeley.

evaaine.com


Wilson Shook is an improvising saxophonist and manual therapist living in Oakland, CA since 2022. His approach to music has been shaped by collaborative relationships with Gust Burns, Paul Hoskin, Ben Bennett, Greg Kelley, Carol Genetti, Ted Byrnes, and others, as well as an ongoing sonic exploration of the resonant void spaces of American hydrologic and transportation infrastructure. For 10 years Wilson helped to organize the performance space Gallery 1412 in Seattle, and worked closely with the Seattle Improvised Music Festival.

A self-taught musician, Wilson approaches improvisation, study, collaboration, and performance as sites of radical experimentation with modes of being, relating, and perceiving. Wilson’s practice cultivates an awareness of human vulnerability and technological fallibility; embraces excess, fragmentation, and incompleteness; and pursues the chaotic, queer, and interdependent imperatives of an aleatory existence amidst a crumbling, toxic culture.

Attentiveness, transformation, commitment to the materiality of the musical act and its consequences; radical presence as the only avenue of escape. Always mindful of the axiom, via Éluard—There is another world, but it is in this one.

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Doors That Only Open in Silence (open participation, non-hierarchical workshop in free improvisation)

The monthly series of improvisation research at Temescal Arts Center continues. Bring your instrument or come to listen. No advance notice needed — just show up. Small groups will be randomly assembled from submitted names immediately before each group plays. We try to keep transition time between groups at a minimum. Over by 10pm. Donations for the venue rental are encouraged.

videos from past editions: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL_HPASqyjYfIjlxrLSSkeQ6VZHDZNx9DG

7:30 PM (over by 10 PM, see schedule below)
TAC: Temescal Art Center
511 48th Street, Oakland

7:30 - Load-in — everyone sets up simultaneously.
8:00 - Random trios (or other small groups), about 7 minutes each depending on number of participants.
9:00 - Second round of random trios.
10:00 - Sound must stop.

Anyone requiring amplification should bring a small amp. It’s recommended to bring an extension cable and power strip if you need power. Outlets and supplies are limited.

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