Feb 24, 2014
Steven Schick: -originally from small town Iowa -UCSD Music faculty -pioneering percussionist -author -as several NY Times features -and a commission from Stanford -unstoppable, really. Curious? Get inside his head and hear his story.
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Steven Schick: -originally from small town Iowa -UCSD Music faculty -pioneering percussionist -author -as several NY Times features -and a commission from Stanford -unstoppable, really. Curious? Get inside his head and hear his story.
In much of Western classical music for the last several centuries, it would seem the body has become disconnected from the music. Musicians were taught to use their bodies as quietly as possible, to play almost motionless. In [Schick's] performances that bodily aspect is inseparable from the music. You could say, he does bare all.
Schick gets physical in New York | U-T San Diego
Happy belated birthday, Steven Schick! We're looking forward to seeing you at the Schick Machine late February!
Dresher's Schick Machine: Revised and Reviewed
The Paul Dresher Ensemble just closed a two-week run of a newly revised version of their inventive, solo stage work Schick Machine, featuring percussionist Steven Schick. The production earned critical acclaim for its unique, boundary-pushing musical creations. The New York Times featured Dresher and his invented instruments, as did the San Francisco Chronicle in a thoughtful interview. The San Francisco Bay Guardian's Robert Avila writes:
A gorgeous clutter of instruments fills the stage at Z Space/Theater Artaud this week, and audiences, after an eye- and earful of Schick Machine, are invited to go up and play them, too. [...] Master percussionist and contemporary music veteran Steven Schick [...] wanders around a garden playground laboratory of ingeniously crafted percussive and stringed instruments (composer Dresher's fanciful yet practicable inventions), against a video backdrop evocative of everything from superstrings to abstract expressionist painting to architectural blueprints and scientific scribblings. The instruments of wood and steel form elegant ridges, playful spirals, majestic fans, Ferris wheel–like magic circles, and sonic tulip patches — a kind of Eden for a lone but rarely lonesome madman. [San Francisco Bay Guardian]
For more information, check out Schick Machine on bernsarts.com.