suki o'kane

Z Program 70
2026-07-13 19:00 - 21:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Dresher Ensemble Studio, 2201 Poplar Street, Oakland, CA, 94607, United States
Helping Pamela Z celebrate her birthday (and my own, since we are twins) performing some fractional minutes in her curation for large ensemble “70 Minutes.”
Expect the bass drum with Jurassic electronics, handheld projection, and performances by fellow celebrants Sarah Cahill, Paul Dresher, Thea Farhadian, Jeanne Finley + John Muse, John Leidecker, Amy X Neuburg, Suki O’Kane, Julie Queen, Sean Santomieri, Ian Winters, and Theresa Wong
There will be cake. And wine.
Seventy dimes or seventy dollars (no one turned away for lack of dimes)

theise | talebi: cast
2026-06-28 19:00 - 21:30
Percussing with Graham Viegut in Eric Theise and Shahrzad Talebi’s piece Cast, on the program for Eric’s concert at West Oakland Sound Series.
Also that evening: Kole Galbraith (Seattle) and Roble + Beckman + Bickley

tpg w i n d o w at dresher ensemble studio open house
2025-09-07 12:00 - 14:00
Paul Dresher needed to move the studio 300 feet down the loading dock quite unexpectedly this year, and now, along with many of the artists affiliated with the creative enterprises of Dresher Ensemble Studio, we celebrate with a day and evening of performance.
From Noon to 2pm, and likely earlier, Thingamajigs Performance Group will be inhabiting the Second Floor Lobby of 2201 Poplar with sound and movement artists from w i n d o w, the TPG collaboration with Stephen Ratcliffe, now released as an excerpt on Bimodal Press.
Come dwell before the doors open with

Keith Evans, sonic apparatus
Evelyn Ficarra, electronics
Megan Nicely, movement
self, percussion and hand-held projection
Edward Schocker, glass and reeds
paige starling sorvillo, movement

Reserve your free seat for the open house here.

redline redefined: willow and grist
2024-12-08 13:00 - 15:00
From 2020 – 2022, I created five graphic scores for Redline Redefined, Thingamajigs’ commissioning project that catalyzes artist investigations of East Bay historic (and current) redlining.
The scores were briefly available to perform at the five sites that inspired them, if you knew to look for an unusual real estate sign, and now they are emerging as small films for various ensembles.
At this matinee launch party for Zachary James Watkins (commissioned in the second cohort of Redline Redefined artists) I’ll be showing two films: WILLOW and GRIST accompanied by affiliates of of the duo B. Experimental Band, instigated by Lisa Mezzacappa and Jason Levis and

Steve Adams
Darren Johnston
Kevin CK Lo
Kjell Nordeson
Erika Oba
David Slusser
Polly Springhorn
Self, on that bass drum as tabula rasa

balsamic
2024-04-14 19:00 - 21:00
Bringing a public practice into the performative at West Oakland Sound Series, balsamic is the collective of sound and movement improvisors who developed their vocabulary in (mostly) outdoor public spaces since 2020. Were you in a park in that era? Did you think you maybe heard or saw something? That might have been us.
The performance edition features Kevin Corcoran (percussion), Rae Diamond (found object, voice), Shoshana Green (movement), Megan Nicely (movement), me (percussion), Edward Schocker (hichiriki, shō, ocarina), and paige starling sorvillo (movement).
Sharing the bill with Ben Goldberg and his Insect Life project.
Advance tickets here.
