7:30pm Room 47
gabby fluke-mogul - violin /
Adam Hirsch - reeds
8:30pm Talking Frog
Karen Stackpole - gongs, percussion /
Bill Noertker - contrabass
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gabby fluke-mogul is a performing, teaching, composing & collaborating-improviser based out of the bay area. she has existed as a violin-body in south florida, hampshire college, western massachusetts, & the wider/cold new england area. in addition to performing solo acoustic violin-body improvisations, gfm collaborates with local & touring ensembles, thesis performances, facilitates community-based workshops, & teaches in public, private, & non-profit learning spaces. gfm has performed in & with a variety of ensembles, installations, bodies, & instrument bodies. she is presently swimming through//with sound & silences at mills college on assistantship for improvisation performance & literature.
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Adam Hirsch is a 22-year-old saxophonist, composer, and electronics performer from Los Angeles, CA. He has also lived in Oberlin, Ohio and Amsterdam, NL, and is currently based in Oakland, CA. Adam graduated from Oberlin College in 2014 with a B.A. in English, and is currently pursuing an M.F.A in Music at Mills College. His music strives to find and inhabit the borderlands between entropy and structure, movement and stasis, performance and processing, noise and song. Current projects include solo improvisation work, compositions for acoustic instruments with electronics, the audiovisual improvisation quartet Wisseler, and the experimental songwriting group Native Eloquence.
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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.”
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Gong master/drummer/percussionist
Karen Stackpole began her career as a rock drummer in the late ‘80s, playing with numerous bands between the Monterey and San Francisco Bay areas and touring up and down the west coast. Over the years she branched out, exploring blues, alterna-country, funk, jazz, and progressive rock as well as foraying into experimental music and alternative metal. Recent endeavors include drumming with Malcolm Mooney and the Tenth Planet, the Francis Wong Unit, and singer/songwriter Audrey Howard.
Cost: $10/$8