7:30pm
Huge Statue of Jesus
Adam Adhiyatma - guitars, clarinets, electronics, voice
Alex Cohen - guitars, tubes, percussion, voice
Kim Nucci - saxophones, clarinet, flute, electronics, voice
8:30pm
Noertker's Moxie
Annelise Zamula - saxes, flute
Amber Lamprecht - oboe, flute
John Vaughn - baritone sax, flute
Bill Noertker - contrabass
Dax Compise - drums
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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.
He has also composed music for three films that showcase the intimately-scaled sculptures of David Beck, and 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.
He is now at work scoring the upcoming Olympia Stone film “Curious Worlds: the Art and Imagination of David Beck.”
https://www.noertker.com
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HUGE STATUE OF JESUS is an Oakland-based improvisation collective. The sub-units are connected by interests in ecstatic performance, body/out-of-body experiences, sonic hilarity, and the transformative powers of an emotionalism grounded in sound structure.