Kevin Corcoran (from USA), Taku Unami, Takahiro Kawaguchi

Kevin Corcoran [from the U.S.] (percussion, field recording), Taku Unami, and Takahiro Kawaguchi

Kevin Corcoran is a percussionist and field recordist with an open interest in sound as medium as it moves through contexts of art, music, ecology, and communication. As a drummer/percussionist he is most interested in techniques which extend the sonic possibilities of the instrument emphasizing textural sound, atonal sympathetic vibration, sustained tones without audible attack and the use of found objects. As a field recordist he collects sounds in urban and rural locations. These sonic environments are presented displaced from their origins with an intent to create temporary imagined acoustic places and are often combined with or serve as inspiration to his percussive sounds. Kevin grew up in Sacramento where he played in a variety of rock and free-jazz groups in addition to solo and collaborative free improvisation and continues these practices in his current hometown San Francisco. He holds a degree in Technocultural Studies from the University of California at Davis where he studied sonic arts with Bob Ostertag and Sam Nichols. He has performed throughout the United States, Europe and in Japan and collaborated on several published recordings both improvised and composed since 2002.f