SIMM Series
Musicians Union Hall 116 9th St @ Mission SF
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Outsound Presents
7:30pm
Emergency String Xtet w/Rent Romus recording a live album
This time X = 7
Adria Ott, Angela Hsu, Jonathon Segel - violins
Bob Marsh, Doug Carroll - cellos
Kanoko Nishi - bass koto
Tony Dryer - contrabass
8:30pm
Noertker's Moxie Chamber Ensemble
performs compositions and improvisations from the Blue Rider,
Noertker's extended suite of music
inspired by the paintings of Wassily Kandinsky, Franz Marc, and Paul Klee
Annelise Zamula - flute
Amber Lamprecht - oboe
Bill Noertker - contrabass

This will be a live album recording of textures, free improv,
and the theme of the late 60's television soap opera Dark Shadows.

The Emergency String (x)tet rose up from the ashes of too many departures and is now stronger and more visionary than ever. The ESX engages in non-structured free improvisation. The "X" in the name refers to both the fluctuating number of players (4-6) as well as their venture into the unknown at each performance.

Rent Romus is an American saxophonist/multi-instrumentalist, bandleader, music and performing arts producer, and community leader living in the San Francisco Bay Area. He is heavily involved in exploring past the confines of standard music forms of composition and improvisations in a wide variety of musical settings. He is also focused in presenting and supporting the local experimental and avant-garde community. Even from his very beginnings as a student of Jazz while being exposed to the twilight tutelage of Stan Getz he found himself drawn to the outer realms of music. From 1986 to present day Rent Romus has recorded and released twenty two recordings as a leader featuring a cross section of new up and coming musicians as well as seasoned veterans of the improvised arts which have included Jason Olaine, Steve Rossi, Chico Freeman, John Tchiai, Jonas Müller, Stefan Pasborg, Toyoji Tomita, Dave Mihaly, Bill Noertker, CJ Borosque, Philip Everett, Ray Scheaffer, Paris Slim, Jesse Quattro, Scott R Looney, Bob Marsh, Jim Ryan, Ernesto Diaz-Infante, Tobias Fischer, and most recently Thollem Mcdonas to name a few. As a producer and artist business activist he runs Edgetone Records a label for all forms of improvisation and experimentation. He is the founder and Executive Director of Outsound Presents under which curates The SIMM Music Series at the Musicians Union Hall on alternate Sundays as well as the long standing Luggage Store Gallery New Music Series every Thursday both in San Francisco, and The Outsound New Music Summit (formerly the edgetone new music summit), a national experimental music festival held in the greater San Francisco Bay Area every summer in July.
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In 2001 bassist/composer Bill Noertker formed Noertker's Moxie as a vehicle for his thematic compositions. His first extended suite, Sketches of Catalonia, is inspired by the work of painters Salvador Dalí, Joan Miró and Antoni Tápies, and architect Antoni Gaudí. So far, three CDs have been released of this suite. Concurrently, Noertker is working on another extended suite, this one inspired by the Blue Rider movement, in particular the work of Paul Klee, Wassily Kandinsky, and Franz Marc. To date he has composed 28 pieces of music for this suite. This year Noertker's Moxie has been performing and recording these pieces for an upcoming CD release. Tonight in addition to several of these compositions, Moxie will also be utilizing some paintings as a springboard for improvisation.

Der Blaue Reiter (The Blue Rider) was a German movement lasting from 1911 to 1914. Wassily Kandinsky, Franz Marc, and others founded the group in response to the rejection of Kandinsky's painting Last Judgement from an exhibition. Der Blaue Reiter lacked a central artistic manifesto, but was centered around Kandinsky and Marc. Paul Klee was also involved.

Within the group, artistic approaches and aims varied from artist to artist; however, the artists shared a common desire to express spiritual truths through their art. They believed in the promotion of modern art; the connection between visual art and music; the spiritual and symbolic associations of color; and a spontaneous, intuitive approach to painting. Members were interested in European medieval art and primitivism, as well as the contemporary, non-figurative art scene in France. As a result of their encounters with cubist, fauvist and Rayonist ideas, they moved towards abstraction.

Cost: $10/8

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