|
Mallet percussionist, media ecologist, composer, sound designer and public artist, 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 its 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 occasionally expressed in drumkit duo and percussion trio performances of SL Morse.
Suki is currently composing with a collaboration of artists led by Shinichi Ioga-Kova and Dohee Lee to develop the new performance work The Line Between (2011). Her work in theater includes the 2007 composing commission for Theatre of Yugen's The Cycle Plays: a collaboration with Allen Whitman and a community of Bay Area musicians and composers to create the music for five plays performed during the course of a one-day-only presentation informed by the ritualistic Japanese Noh theater and written and directed in an ensemble process by Yugen's Artistic Associate and playwright Erik Ehn.
She works in partnership with House of Zoka, a live recording project that has documented over twelve 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 and Music by the Eyeful, the indoor performance series exploring the work of intermedia artists. She has collaborated with Neighborhood Public Radio to present NOVA, a culminating event of NPR's exhibition American Life at the 2008 Whitney Biennial. and with the the Overdub Club, an ensemble made of performative filmmakers Alfonso Alvarez, Thad Povey, and musician Lucio Menegon.
|
