http://www.kevincorcoran.net/tympanum daily 1.0 2024-07-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5735618f62cd949b462c89f1/1463117404175-U4T8BT1NBM9NGL3EVAWF/IMG_2579.JPG front https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5735618f62cd949b462c89f1/1463117404175-U4T8BT1NBM9NGL3EVAWF/IMG_2579.JPG front https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5735618f62cd949b462c89f1/1721222857839-S7L50H61OYEJX9R49R34/Treptower+Park+snare+bw.jpeg front https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5735618f62cd949b462c89f1/1721222814098-JXJ5792VLW10VAPG7L1C/MIR+1.jpeg front http://www.kevincorcoran.net/about daily 0.75 2026-03-26 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5735618f62cd949b462c89f1/680aa2bd-3440-49cf-a649-9bbcf90e90c2/kc+headlands.jpg about - Make it stand out photo by Rae Diamond http://www.kevincorcoran.net/performance daily 0.75 2026-03-26 http://www.kevincorcoran.net/recordings daily 0.75 2026-03-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5735618f62cd949b462c89f1/1672888307237-NZ80UD4S8NGPEW6LTA8F/kc+severity.jpg recordings https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5735618f62cd949b462c89f1/1672889445021-27TQ1NM8D5QL8DF3T2LG/GrayLight.jpg recordings https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5735618f62cd949b462c89f1/1672888465145-TJ9A84P28NN6ME9KI0L2/hirakito.jpg recordings https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5735618f62cd949b462c89f1/1672889391660-FLX5NUZZNAX2UU0GIAGT/Sul+filo+cover+a.jpg recordings https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5735618f62cd949b462c89f1/1672889866590-YZNFEH5BOIR1BYNPBNUV/erosion+KCJFH.jpg recordings http://www.kevincorcoran.net/installation daily 0.75 2025-07-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5735618f62cd949b462c89f1/1728717055287-BK7ENF2OQNROFP2GEA22/LFfloor.JPG installation - Landslip Frequencies, 2024 3 channel sound (field recordings, feedback), found material, and digital photographs printed on x-ray film. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5735618f62cd949b462c89f1/1751336983098-99T2W75W8YPZ6VLFV9UQ/RefrainedInvocations.jpeg installation - Refrained Invocations, 2025 2 channel sound installation for handmade speakers. Field recordings, radio, text. Collaboration with Jorge Bachmann for Taoyuan International Art Award in Taiwan. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5735618f62cd949b462c89f1/1672955357152-1PF2Q4QGVV1TY04VWW7E/SynapticLapsesII.JPG installation - Synaptic Lapses, 2019 Collaboration with Jorge Bachmann. Field recordings, wire, metal, piezo elements An array of piezo discs connected by wire and magnets create a networked speaker through which a collage of field recordings is amplified. Installed at Code and Canvas gallery in San Francisco for the group show While I’m Waiting organized by Think Make Tank, the work contrasts an improvised and randomly wired form on one wall with a measured grid on the other. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5735618f62cd949b462c89f1/1672955342055-WGTGW8G8MDJBOJ4J0KP0/LostContentsWithinLimits.jpeg installation - Lost Contents Within Limits, 2022 Field recordings, stone, wire, photographs Solo work in group show Following Water organized by Landing events at Gravy Gallery in Santa Cruz, California. Field recordings, composite photographs and objects collected at Mussel Rock in Daly City focus on duration through erosion and efforts at containment. Portions of the audio are duplicated on analog tape corroded by seawater. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5735618f62cd949b462c89f1/1672955431080-GNN3BHFL53XD9MB0LY71/88ActionsII.JPG installation - Repetitive Actions in Search of Origins, 2018 sound, soil, glass Exhibited at Space 151, a gallery in a former paint factory warehouse in San Francisco, this piece functions as a miniature encapsulated landscape. Working with soil and water in relation to a group show titled Origins, the piece considers soil and water as harbors of life at a microbial level. 88 small jars were filled with soil by hand and accompany sound recordings of water in various environments both natural and industrial. The soil jars will be seeded and installed outdoors after exhibition. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5735618f62cd949b462c89f1/1672955416664-GA73IXUNU84OYIU6FNCX/BachmannCorcoranPortal.jpeg installation - Portal, 2019 Collaboration with Jorge Bachmann. Field recordings, piezo elements, foamcore, wood Collaborative installation at California College of the Arts for the group show Perspectivas organized by the American Institute of Architects’ during the Architecture and the City festival in San Francisco. The work explores sound as a dynamic aspect of place-making through a mix of urban field recordings made in public and private spaces. It speaks to the impactful yet mostly invisible nature of sound in environment by blending a piezo-amplified surface into the wall of a campus corridor. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5735618f62cd949b462c89f1/1751336960678-2BZOXA4NAJKOPWHNX65E/sun_ear_djerassi.jpeg installation - Sun Ear, 2023 5 channel sound installation with handmade speakers for single day exhibition. Collaboration with Jorge Bachmann at Djerassi Art Residency space in California. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5735618f62cd949b462c89f1/1751336976708-OKROD7KF4JVDA374RM0R/BachmannCorcoran_4CHDjerassi_install2024.1.jpeg installation - untitled solitude, 2024 2 channel sound installation with handmade speakers for single day exhibition. Collaboration with Jorge Bachmann at Djerassi in California. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5735618f62cd949b462c89f1/1728717188327-M2KBTEJK83CTH7DHH8EO/stratigraphic+studies.jpeg installation - Stratigraphic Studies, 2023 installation for 2 channel sound, found material, photographs, and text at Sesnon Gallery in Santa Cruz, California. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5735618f62cd949b462c89f1/1672955499295-B6AL9AZGUZWTRHERDUJZ/noisepollution.jpg installation - Boundary Objects, 2018 Field recordings, percussive actions, found material Plastic objects collected in various locations and through personal consumption were used as sound objects activated by percussive actions and as containers and barriers through which to mediate field recordings. The collected objects were then arranged to create visual accompaniment to the sound recording played through two sets of headphones. This piece was exhibited as part of a group show at the American Institute of Architects’ San Francisco office during the Future Cities festival. http://www.kevincorcoran.net/contact daily 0.75 2022-02-23 http://www.kevincorcoran.net/faults daily 0.75 2024-09-22 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5735618f62cd949b462c89f1/6789d73b-f806-4d5a-9f94-930f006d7ded/Faults_005.jpg faults FAULTS (L to R: Gabby Wen, Jorge Bachmann, Kevin Corcoran, Jaroba) photo by Kelvin Zhang, 2024 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5735618f62cd949b462c89f1/efac9931-3b89-49d6-bc9d-82d743441c6e/Faults+Joshua+Tree+session+screenshot.png faults - Make it stand out video still from Ombligo, Faults in the desert with dancer Pei-Ling Kao, 2022 see a three minute excerpt here https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5735618f62cd949b462c89f1/1b079058-4b33-43c8-bb5e-dbe7fd3278a1/Faults+Omun+LP+2023.jpg faults - Make it stand out FAULTS debut LP titled Omún features Bachmann, Corcoran, and Jaroba, and includes a portfolio of original linoleum block prints by each. Available now in a 2023 self-published edition of 108 copies. Inquire here for direct purchase of portfolio edition, or through Tobira Records in Japan for LP only. http://www.kevincorcoran.net/video daily 0.75 2025-08-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5735618f62cd949b462c89f1/d8fa7ee4-001a-451a-8bd3-a0aa1c31ece9/EnvFeedbackWork_stills.jpg video - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5735618f62cd949b462c89f1/1728717702922-5P0OYS8F9GK80PDIIOCG/feedback+field+recording+still+crop.jpg video - feedback field recording https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5735618f62cd949b462c89f1/1728717696108-88GQCMDB2U6S1KX9I0V1/mineral+listening+still+crop.jpg video - mineral listening https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5735618f62cd949b462c89f1/1729923523937-S2PE33VKK3ZY2WE06XF2/brac1.png video https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5735618f62cd949b462c89f1/1729923572444-H7DI5XN3URTI6G26KK1P/brac2.png video https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5735618f62cd949b462c89f1/1729923789559-62W06DAN760NC31K93UY/brac3.png video https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5735618f62cd949b462c89f1/1672911420723-HTKAV2GN6FCWLQOBPTHT/friction+still+1.png video https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5735618f62cd949b462c89f1/1672911424081-4V635GK9A6ZLC92HW3W3/friction+still+2.png video https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5735618f62cd949b462c89f1/1672911429599-ONX5PXLHJXHG1QEZP3JA/friction+still+3.png video https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5735618f62cd949b462c89f1/1672911577916-2QF2F79DPXPH98SYZP8H/touch+flow+still+1.png video https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5735618f62cd949b462c89f1/1672911580569-VB3FEB3ZY5SHH3RA8ZNG/touch+flow+still+2.png video https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5735618f62cd949b462c89f1/1672911648329-734L4EGZKUURHKJH9Y1V/touch+flow+still+4.png video https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5735618f62cd949b462c89f1/1672911746535-IWZAZJVNVTTXMYJ1WV6T/soft+tremors+still+1.png video https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5735618f62cd949b462c89f1/1672911748669-5RVMULLIE1SLBCAT81U3/soft+tremors+still+2.png video https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5735618f62cd949b462c89f1/1672911758860-E5TDMR7ZP21HW5ASQ1CE/soft+tremors+still+3.png video https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5735618f62cd949b462c89f1/1672911826608-BMY9H2EH2WI12WH2NC81/auroras+still+1.png video https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5735618f62cd949b462c89f1/1672911833183-SPKTQVK7J24TRGNRWB3T/auroras+still+2.png video https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5735618f62cd949b462c89f1/1672911836626-ACNVCXEG49N1BBKV2NMD/auroras+still+3.png video http://www.kevincorcoran.net/portfolio daily 0.75 2024-09-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5735618f62cd949b462c89f1/3e152f03-635b-4e55-affe-e11619287b7f/minerallistening+still.png portfolio - Make it stand out still from mineral listening, video and sound, 2023 mussel rock, daly city excerpt this land-use performance involves tracing contours of site by walking along canals designed to slow erosion in an active rift-zone landslide atop a decommissioned landfill while carrying natural and industrial composite rocks wound in copper wire. this transforms the rocks into radio receivers and noise making devices. broadening the concept of a field recording to include electromagnetic fields in addition to environmental sounds, the inclusion of noise relates to the accumulation of excess in a location where human traces are simultaneously acts of compounding toxicity, extraction, and remediation. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5735618f62cd949b462c89f1/a5f184c6-06d6-44d0-9453-887473936752/feedback+field+recording+still.png portfolio - Make it stand out still from feedback field recordings, video and sound, 2023 candlestick point, san francisco excerpt in this example of land-use performance, environmental sound is simultaneously recorded and played back into the site through a small amplifier. as my gestures shift the direction of the hand-held recorder, instances of feedback occur in the signal chain. introducing the sound of feedback into the environment by moving my body in relation with construction debris, soil erosion, and remediation infrastructure, a metaphor is made for the feedback loop of anthropogenic climate change likely to raise water levels at this bay shore location, an extension of the city built of infill. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5735618f62cd949b462c89f1/3330dc1c-2e87-4c8f-b24d-108efcc42b29/induring+berlin+still.png portfolio - Make it stand out still from becoming heap, performance with min yoon, video and sound, 2023 treptower park, berlin a continuation of our international duo practice concerning relationships of the human body with sound, movement, and environment, we found two large heaps of recently excavated soil and flora and performed our own composting alongside them. in addition to the sounds of percussion, voice, and our rustling footsteps in the leaves, the voices of people passing by, birds, traffic, and the HVAC system of an adjacent building define the sound here. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5735618f62cd949b462c89f1/3e04d261-fb3d-42f5-9efd-49b00ebfdffa/AFS_foundfilters.jpg portfolio - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5735618f62cd949b462c89f1/b677b64a-f18a-4440-94d6-f166f93bf9d4/MRAS.1.jpeg portfolio - Make it stand out digital photo composite scores for field recording work, 2023 photo collage and schematic graphics function as experimental field notes from recording outings and also as scores playable as instruction for microphone placement, listening positions, body movements in situ, or musical interpretations. in this way, the scores document work already made and generate new work with possibilities for solo and collaborative processes. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5735618f62cd949b462c89f1/d0f6a2bb-47b6-45ba-bfc7-e913b7ceb7e3/LFfloor.JPG portfolio - Make it stand out installation view, landslip frequencies, found objects, transducers, sound at sesnon gallery, santa cruz, 2024 assembling found objects of infrastructural metal debris in various states of decay with natural and industrial composite stone, a three channel composition of field recordings from the coastal landslide and landfill locations where the objects were collected plays through transducers and a directional speaker activating the resonant properties of the metal plates and pipes. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5735618f62cd949b462c89f1/0116b760-1719-480a-88e2-65f067fbf82d/sunear_djerassi2023.jpeg portfolio - Make it stand out installation view, sun ear sun eye: sound, handmade speakers and fixtures at djerassi, woodside, 2023, collaboration with jorge bachmann a temporary installation designed to be portable, modular, and battery powered for outdoor placement during a one day event. five channels of audio combining environmental sound recordings made north, south, east, and west of the exhibition site were played back into the field along with percussion, flute, and a spoken text meditation on being a visitor in more-than-human networks of relations and places of colonial dispossession. http://www.kevincorcoran.net/approaches daily 0.75 2026-03-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5735618f62cd949b462c89f1/1757722482228-JKX7ZBVGK6LIIADLZSK4/TraceAPath3.jpeg approaches https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5735618f62cd949b462c89f1/1757722473723-EDGQTSBVACVKF0SNTEU2/TraceAPath1.jpeg approaches https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5735618f62cd949b462c89f1/1757722446500-LI311HH9T5ZA2ZFYGHIU/TraceAPath2.2.jpeg approaches https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5735618f62cd949b462c89f1/1757722445220-IW1CIPGKEVTAHCULVPBD/TraceAPath2.3.jpeg approaches https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5735618f62cd949b462c89f1/1773706995247-PH5JRNJFK4JDFV1C3X6O/SC3_detail.jpg approaches https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5735618f62cd949b462c89f1/1773706985891-OFEAROMJTLF7AE55VLH8/SC2_detail.jpg approaches https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5735618f62cd949b462c89f1/1773707005142-CAH20VOK9YC0QQ9GPA25/SC1_detail.jpg approaches https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5735618f62cd949b462c89f1/49f35313-18da-49ea-a7e6-adec514bb14a/insectsandairplanes1.jpg approaches - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5735618f62cd949b462c89f1/fbc7e4e2-6633-4af6-be7a-a67bc2f4d497/insectsandairplanes2.jpg approaches - Make it stand out Notebook phonography informed by asemic writing, spectrograms, and oscilloscope imaging. A series of line drawings and notes led by listening to insects and airplanes, two environmental presences defining a place of temporary residence in the northern Santa Cruz Mountains, California, 2025. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5735618f62cd949b462c89f1/0e811e88-3f45-4da5-b5f5-799eb80f9252/MareIslandLine.jpg approaches - Make it stand out Draw a line around a place of interest, at full scale, with the whole body: Field recording as hour-long line drawing made with the vibrations of my body while walking the perimeter of a hazardous waste landfill in a natural remediation zone on Mare Island in Vallejo, California, 2024. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5735618f62cd949b462c89f1/8f0d7f1d-5670-46b8-a84b-801f923ed6a9/Berlin_walks.jpg approaches - Make it stand out Berlin notebook excerpt: 27 very short walks registering the vibration of my body in transit as field recordings of liminal spaces of the city. 2024. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5735618f62cd949b462c89f1/e852b13e-1e5b-4a1e-bf00-edfafde78283/unfinishedobjectsII.jpg approaches - Make it stand out for “post score” exhibition at Co-Opt Gallery, Lubbock TX, 2023 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5735618f62cd949b462c89f1/6da57a54-ad62-41dc-b4cc-0340a89c17d6/MRAS.1.jpeg approaches - Make it stand out acoustic field studies, Mussel Rock variation, 2023 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5735618f62cd949b462c89f1/6bfa511e-1ce4-464e-9445-9491eadb24df/gather_2024.jpg approaches - Make it stand out gather: walking and listening study, Mussel Rock 2024 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5735618f62cd949b462c89f1/7070aefb-e892-4110-8358-a9fe181d65c7/MRAS+2.jpeg approaches - Make it stand out acoustic field studies, Mussel Rock variation, 2023 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5735618f62cd949b462c89f1/37146f67-9889-447b-bd12-80caed04c91e/coastwork+I.png approaches - Make it stand out for “Voices in Distant Landscapes” organized by Gretchen Jude, 2021 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5735618f62cd949b462c89f1/1317c87f-4480-4d48-a8e5-f96a498b5cdf/AFS+MROS.jpg approaches - Make it stand out acoustic field studies, Mussel Rock variation, 2024 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5735618f62cd949b462c89f1/4e794ca5-3f99-41e8-823e-80eb59c9478e/duneswell.jpg approaches - Make it stand out for “post score” exhibition at Co-Opt Gallery, Lubbock TX, 2023 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5735618f62cd949b462c89f1/669b9a24-ad6f-42ae-b845-cceaf8107409/eye+piece+center+for+deep+listening.jpg approaches - Make it stand out For “A Year of Deep Listening” online in 2022, published as a book in 2024. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5735618f62cd949b462c89f1/068552f3-69e0-45d3-b607-6ec666ba2362/miji66.png approaches - Make it stand out for Miji 66 organized by Yan Jun in 2020, for anyone to perform at home during international pandemic lockdown as Miji paused in-person events in Beijing. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5735618f62cd949b462c89f1/1729925886266-ZN7CUNAGK6NSFBTD2H1F/April+Miji+66+shanzhai.jpg approaches https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5735618f62cd949b462c89f1/1729925887415-ZHX9XAWQIS2ECLUSRKLW/April+Miji+66+boundary+objects.jpg approaches