Kevin Corcoran works with sound and listening through percussion and place.
As a percussionist he is focused on techniques which emphasize texture, friction, sympathetic vibration, sustained tones and the use of found materials. Whether working sparsely with a single drum, an electro-acoustic approach, or frenetically on the drum kit, improvisation is crucial to his practice as generative method and non-hierarchical exchange of ideas.
In fieldwork projects, noticing tensions between land use and disuse, infrastructure and open space, contamination, weathering, and remediation guide his place-based practice of making recordings in sound, image, and text.
Based in San Francisco, California, Kevin collaborates across disciplines with musicians, dancers, filmmakers, writers and visual artists. He has performed in North America, Europe, and East Asia, exhibited audiovisual work in the US and Taiwan, and published internationally on small imprints dedicated to experimental music.
Since 2015 he is co-founder and co-organizer of the performance series Re:Sound which takes place in the decommissioned naval base at Mare Island and operates under 23Five, a long running nonprofit dedicated to the increased awareness of sound in the arts.
photo by Rae Diamond