7:30pm Madalyn Merkey & Julie Moon
Julie Moon - piano and voice/
Madalyn Merkey - computer synthesis
8:30pm Noertker's Moxie
Annelise Zamula - tenor sax, flute/
Theo Padouvas - cornet/
Bill Noertker - contrabass/
Jason Levis - drums
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Madalyn Merkey & Julie Moon.
A performance of sound as object.
Influenced by opera and fine silk.
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Madalyn Merkey is an artist concerned with the contemporary performance of computer music. Her translation of Due scuole di musica elettronica in Italia by Enore Zaffiri will be available in late 2016 from the Milan publisher Die Schachtel.
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Julie Moon is an artist exploring music through the roles of performer, improviser, and composer. Her current projects are aligned with personal explorations that invite audiences to experience these emotional journeys themselves.
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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 nine CDs, including three CDs of his extended suite Sketches of Catalonia, and three volumes of his extended Blue Rider Suite.
He has also composed music for three films that showcase the intimately-scaled sculptures of David Beck, 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, and scored the Olympia Stone film “Curious Worlds: the Art and Imagination of David Beck” which is currently screening on the festival circuit.
Cost: $10-$15 sliding scale