7:30pm
Brett Carson - solo piano
8:30pm Noertker's Moxie
Annelise Zamula - tenor sax, flute,
Theo Padouvas - trumpet,
Bill Noertker - contrabass,
Jon Arkin - drums
As a composer,
Brett Carson seeks to imbue with power an alternate psychic reality, revolving around the (recent) discovery of the ancient order of the Quattuor Elephantis (Four Elephants). The excavation of myth and pursuit of a synaesthetic ideal drive the fractured groove of his soundworlds. The unending search for surprise and the need for self-amusement serve as the cornerstones of the transformational (perhaps cinematic) nature of his metaphysical musical excursions.
As a pianist, he is active in the Bay Area improvisation and new music scenes. He is originally from Georgia and spent some time working in the Atlanta experimental music scene before moving to Oakland, California. He holds an MA in Composition from Mills College, where he studied with Roscoe Mitchell, Zeena Parkins, Fred Frith, Les Stuck, Joan Jeanrenaud, and Robert Schwartz.
Bassist/composer
Bill Noertker has been active in the Bay Area jazz and avant-garde scene since the late 1980s. Since 2001, he has lead his own ensemble, Noertker's Moxie, as a forum for his compositions inspired by visual artists such as Paul Klee, Wassily Kandinsky, Franz Marc, Salvador Dalí, and Joan Miró, architect Antoni Gaudí, poet Rainer Maria Rilke, sculptor David Beck, and others. Noertker has composed over 150 pieces of music for this group and has released eight CDs, including three CDs of his extended suite Sketches of Catalonia, and two volumes of his extended Blue Rider Suite.
He has also composed music for three films that showcase the intimately-scaled sculptures of David Beck, and composed the score for a Nikos Koumoundouros film, The Commandments or the Nostril of Ektor Kaknavatos, that was selected for the Short Film Corner at the prestigious Festival de Cannes 2010.
He is now at work scoring the upcoming Olympia Stone film “Curious Worlds: the Art and Imagination of David Beck.”
http://www.noertker.com/
Cost: $10/$8