Department/College/UnitArts Division

TitlePhD student

AffiliationGraduate

Other UCSC Campus AffiliationArt Department

Web Sitekevincorcoran.net

Additional Location(s)San Francisco

Mail StopFilm and Digital Media

Biography, Education and Training

Kevin Corcoran works with sound in contexts of music, art, communication, and place. Through field recording, installation, and performance, he is interested in slippages between infrastructure and open space, transit and surveillance, listening and memory. He expands these practices through research into elemental media, critical sonic fieldwork, and soundscapes of environmental injustice.

Kevin is also active in improvised music as a percussionist focused on extended technique and electroacoustic performance and recording, having shared solo and collaborative work in the United States, Europe, Mexico, and East Asia. In 2015 he co-founded the quarterly performance series Re:Sound which he continues to co-organize, foregrounding experimental music and expanded cinema in disued defense architecture on Mare Island in Vallejo, California. He has a BA in Technocultural Studies from UC Davis, and an MFA in Environmental Art and Social Practice from UC Santa Cruz where he is now working on a PhD.