Noertker's Moxie & Frozen Reflections

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Sunday, August 18, 2013
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7:30pm
Frozen Reflections
Motoko Honda - Acoustic Prepared Piano
Debby Kajiyama - Dance, Movements
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8:30pm
Noertker's Moxie
Annelise Zamula - tenor sax, flute
Amber Lamprecht - oboe, flute
Brett Carson - piano
Bill Noertker - contrabass
Dax Compise - drums
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Outsound presents
the SIMM Series at Musicians' Union Hall
116 Ninth Street (near Mission) San Francisco CA 94103
$10 general • $8 students & seniors
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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.

Noertker is joined in Moxie by his long-time musical associate Annelise Zamula on tenor sax and flute, and a rotating cast of Bay Area luminaries. This performance will feature Moxie in a quintet setting. Noertker and Zamula will be joined by Oboist Amber Lamprecht, pianist Jenny Maybee, and drummer Dax Compise. They will be performing selections from two forthcoming albums, "Blue Rider Suite, Vol. 3" and "Druidh Penumbra".

http://www.noertker.com
http://www.annelisezamula.com
soundcloud.com/brett-carson
http://www.edgetonerecords.com/compise.html
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"Frozen Reflections"
by Motoko Honda (Acoustic Prepared Piano) with Debby Kajiyama (Dance/Movements)
Featuring acoustic prepared piano and dance, Honda draws inspiration from the memories and experiences of a recent trip to Sendai, her hometown in Northern Japan, where winters are harsh and culture is very traditional and resistant to foreign influences. Torn between two cultures, identities, families and friends, Honda found inspiration through self reflection. Bay Area native Japanese American Debby Kajiyama also took a trip on her own to Northern Japan in 2012 and formed some striking memories of her own. Immersed in the gloomy and melancholic weather of Northern Japan, with its beauty and the warmth of human touch heightened in the cold winter, an environment hardly ever experienced by foreigners, Honda and Kajiyama, both currently based in the Bay area, explore the contrast of two polarized images of ourselves, our lives, and our cultures.

Motoko Honda, a native of Japan, is a concert pianist, composer, and sound artist who has created a distinctive sound through her holistic approach to music, and her exceptional sensitivity in relating to other art forms and technologies. Employing a "virtuoso technique paired with her intensely imaginative mind" (Susan Dirende, L.A. Splash Magazine), and with stylistic influences ranging from jazz to Indonesian music to contemporary prepared piano, Motoko's structured improvisations are intended to affect the skin, organs and minds of the listener rather than simple recitations of rhythmic and harmonic themes. Called both a "keyboard alchemist" (Chris Barton, L.A. Times), and the "embodiment of a muse" (Greg Burk, Metaljazz), Motoko's performances transport audiences on sonic adventures that transcend the boundaries and conventions of contemporary music. Equally at home in classical, jazz, or electronic music, Motoko is a musical force of nature, bringing a unique creative sound to her wide-ranging collaborations.
http://www.motokohonda.com

Debby Kajiyama is a San Francisco Bay Area native and has been performing dance and physical theater here since 1994. Her interests lie in the intersection of performance, ritual, and cultural studies. She has worked with a number of local companies including Dandelion Dancetheater, June Watanabe in Company, ZACCHO Dance Theater and the Dance Brigade. She is a member of TsukimiKai, an intergenerational group of artists, activists, and scholars that travel to Cuba to collect oral histories of the Japanese diaspora. She is a long-time student of Taiko drumming, and performed with Somei Yoshino Taiko Ensemble from 2009-2012. In 2009, she was the recipient of a residency at the Djerassi Artist in Residence Program (Woodside, CA) and a Silicon Valley Community Foundation Fellowship. In 2011, she was an Irvine Fellow at Montalvo Arts Center Lucas Residency Program (Saratoga, CA). Debby has co-directed Navarrete x Kajiyama Dance Theater since 2001.
http://www.nkdancetheater.com/

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