Sunday, July 10, 2016
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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
Amber Lamprecht - oboe, flute
Theo Padouvas - cornet
Bill Noertker - contrabass
Jason Levis - drums
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Outsound presents the SIMM Series @ Musicians' Union Hall
116 Ninth Street (near Mission) San Francisco CA 94103
$10-$15 sliding scale
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http://www.noertker.com
http://www.annelisezamula.com
http://www.theopadouvas.com
http://www.jasonlevismusic.com
http://www.navadunkelman.com
http://www.gabbyflukemogul.com
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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.
https://www.navadunkelman.com
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Gabby Fluke-Mogul is a performing, teaching, composing, & collaborating-improviser based out of the Bay Area. Gabby has existed as a body//violin-body in South Florida, Western Massachusettes, & the wider New England area. Through improvising//composing, Gabby hopes to create space for individual & collective deep listening, laughter, intimacy, negotiation of identity & narrative, love, & healing. Gabby is 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.
Gabby 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. Gabby is currently collaborating 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.
https://www.gabbyflukemogul.com
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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.
https://www.noertker.com
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Annelise Zamula started on flute at age 11 and picked up sax at 14 after falling in love with jazz. She studied classical flute with the late Wallace Mann of the National Symphony while in her teens. After moving to Boston to attend Berklee College of Music, she studied flute with Matt Marvuglio.
Annelise has performed with numerous groups in the Bay Area, including the Riffrats, Moodswing Orchestra, Montclair Women’s Big Band, Connie Champagne and Her Tiny Bubbles, Carwash, The Strayhorns, Golden Gate Park Band, and more.
In 1996 she joined the Billy Tipton Memorial Saxophone Quartet (BTMSQ) and toured the U.S. and Europe with the group, as well as recording a CD, Sunshine Bundtcake, which was released in March 2000. She has played live radio shows with BTMSQ and the After the End of the World Coretet, both in Europe and at the Bay Area’s own KPFA, KUSF, KALX, and KPOO. With BTMSQ, Ms. Zamula performed with the Indigo Girls on their West Coast tour of 1997, including a performance at the Lilith Fair in Vancouver; at the Bumbershoot Festival in Seattle, and with the Pat Graney Dance Company.
She co-founded the After the End of the World Coretet and composed some of the songs released on the group’s two CDs, Quaternity and 13. Annelise currently performs with Big Lou's Dance Party, Noertker's Moxie, and the Berkeley Saxophone Quartet.
https://www.annelisezamula.com
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Amber Lamprecht is from San Luis Obispo, CA but now lives in San Francisco, CA. As a teenager she competed and won several solo concerto competitions in California on the oboe. She was given a full scholarship to The University of Colorado at Boulder School of Music where she completed a Bachelors Degree of Music Performance on the oboe. Amber has expanded her knowledge of music into other musical genres. She has performed and recorded with almost every type of music by performing as a session player and improvisatory instrumentalist in the San Francisco area on both oboe and flute.
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Theo Padouvas is a trumpet player based in Oakland, California. A native of Queens, New York, Theo received a BA in Music Performance from the New England Conservatory of Music in 2008. Since moving to the Bay Area, Theo has collaborated, performed, and recorded with a wide range of artists including the Oakland Active Orchestra, Naytronix, Kapowski, Ben Goldberg, Aram Shelton, and Michael Coleman. He is a member of the band Religious Phase and has been a featured performer on recordings by Jacob Zimmerman, Arts & Sciences, Naytronix, Sam Ospovat, Bells Atlas, and SNEAL.
https://www.theopadouvas.com
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The music of composer, drummer, and percussionist Jason Levis lives in the rich spaces where styles intersect and musical languages merge. His career began playing guitar in a high school reggae band, and he has since broadened his artistic scope to include jazz, contemporary improvisation, and modern classical composition. His wide-ranging creative efforts are skillfully bound by his innate sense of timbre, sonic space, rhythmic force, and his insatiable interest in discovery. Over the years his passion and curiosity have led him to search out the intersections of musical paths less traveled, and the resulting unique perspective is reflected in his music. Levis holds a Ph.D. in composition from the University of California, Berkeley and is an Associate Professor at the California Jazz Conservatory. He is active as a performer and composer in the United States and Europe.
https://www.jasonlevismusic.com