Procession by Wilson Shook, Kevin Corcoran, 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:

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.

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Aine Nakamura creates an art of voice and body, focusing on the nuanced possibilities of voice, and body of listening and sensing. Based off of words, concepts, personal ethnography and research, and through time- and site-specific listening, she folds shapes and tells stories. While nurturing her artistic space through art, her aim has developed into a space for beings, feelings, and audience members. Her performances include "Under an Unnamed Flower," the winning work for site-specific performance at the 2022 Venice Biennale, her multiple performance project "Circle hasu We plant seeds in the spring of mountains" at Berliner Festspiele's 2022 Theatertreffen, and "Shades of Edge" a collaborative audiovisual performance with Olivia Ting in 2024 presented at The Lab. Awardee of the Fulbright Fellowship (Berlin 2021-2022).

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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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Other Ghosts is a collective alias for the creative work of saxophonist, improviser, and multidisciplinary artist Wilson Shook.

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