Suki O'Kane Email & Phone Number

San Francisco, California, United States

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Suki O’Kane is a classically trained mallet percussionist, composer and instigator working with artists from a wide array of of music, movement, expanded cinema and public art genres. She has composed for Theatre of Yugen and inkBoat, performs in the ensembles of Dan Plonsey, and is a member of Thingamajigs Performance Group.with Edward Schocker and Dylan Bolles.Suki has performed live and recorded with She Mob and its side projects: the mad folk duo Junior Showmanship and its alter-ego speed metal Winner’s Bitch; in realizations of Jon Brumit’s Vendetta Retreat; with Lucio Menegon in his Split Lip, Soundtrack Instumentals and Strangelet projects; with Pamela Z and Christina McPhee in their intermedia work Carbon Song Cycle and with Dohee Lee in her multidisciplinary performance and installation piece Mago.Her compositions for theater include three commissions for Theatre of Yugen with playwright Erik Ehn: Frankenstein (2003), The Cycle Plays (2007) and Cordelia (2011), part of Ehn’s Soulographie project. She teamed with Jason Ditzian to compose for Inkboat’s Line Between (2011), was a member of their 95 RITUALS (for Anna Halprin) project (2015) and is collaborating to score a new work for 2020.Suki is a student of monumental and durational forms, and is currently composing for What A Stranger May Know, Ehn’s 32-play cycle remembering the victims of the Virginia Tech Massacre, and for Jubilith Moore's 24-hour theater cycle Stations.Suki’s work has been supported by the Creative Work Fund, the Zellerbach Family Foundation, Oakland Stock and New Music USA.

The Illuminated Corridor is a next step in outdoor cinema: a nomadic public art project that creates site-specific illumination of public space, drawing on local traditions of film and live music.Working with unlikely natural and built spaces, The Illuminated Corridor has convened nine times since the Summer of 2005, catalyzing site-specific work, showcasing diverse collaborations between performative projectionists and musicians, and covering a vast territory of film and music genres.IllCorr emphasizes the fleeting, and seeks to catalyze highly personal transformations in unexpected places. Corridors work to transform civic spaces with the ephemeral tools of light and sound, organized as collaborative, improvisational practice. IllCorr is developing site-specific works for Oakland, San Francisco, and West Marin while collaborating with Bay Area initiatives committed to creative engagement in civic spaces.

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