SIMM Series @ The Musicians Union Hall
116 9th St @ Mission SF
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7:30pm Dunkelman/Fluke_Mogul
Gabby Fluke-Mogul - violin/Nava Dunkelman – percussion
8:30pm Noertker's Moxie
Annelise Zamula - tenor sax, flute/Theo Padouvas - cornet/Amber Lamprecht - oboe, flute/Bill Noertker – contrabass/Jason Levis - drums
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Nava Dunkelman is a Bay Area based percussionist and improviser. Born in Tokyo, Japan and raised in a multi-cultural environment by an American father and Indonesian mother, her musical interests span the globe from Japanese taiko to Indonesian gamelan to American marching band, and from classical to contemporary to the avant-garde. Nava studied percussion under Eugene Novotney at Humboldt State University before attending Mills College, where she studied with William Winant, Fred Frith, Maggi Payne, Zeena Parkins, and David Bernstein.
Since graduating with a degree in music performance in 2013, she has performed and collaborated with William Winant, Fred Frith, John Zorn, Ikue Mori, and many others.
Nava has performed classical and contemporary pieces with the William Winant Percussion Group, inkBoat, The Luna Ensemble, San Francisco Girls Chorus, among others.
She also formed e, as well as electro-percussion experimental noise duo IMA, and improvisational duo DunkelpeK.
Nava enjoys discovering her own musical language by exploring experimental approaches to communication, progression and space.
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gabby fluke-mogul is a performing, teaching, composing, & collaborating-improviser based out of the bay area. they have existed as a body//violin-body in south florida, western massachusettes, & the wider new england area. Through improvising//composing, gfm hopes to create space for individual & collective deep listening, laughter, intimacy, negotiation of identity & narrative, love, & healing. they are interested in the sensual nature of sound—how desire & eroticism are embodied & translated within the political & poetic context(s) of improvisation. gabby believes in the power of improvised music, children, birds, mice, & kindness.
gfm performs in & with a variety of projects, installations, bodies, & instrument-bodies in addition to
facilitating community-based workshops, & teaching (toddlers-adults) in public, private, & non-profit learning spaces.
gabby works with pauline oliveros, zeena parkins, carla brunet, fred, frith, roscoe mitchell, kala ramnath, & kara davis at mills college in the MFA program for improvisation performance. they presently collaborate with Nava Dunkelman, kelley kipperman (as neem), adam hirsch & john mccowen (as room 47), christina carter, & aurora josephson. && throughout the years with chelsea dunn (as patchwrk), jordan kneckt & ryan mihaly (as knekt), baron collins-hill, & lucy hollier at hampshire college in amherst, ma where gabby received a B.A. in music, education, & childhood studies.

Cost: $10-$15 sliding scale

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