7:30pm
Dan Plonsey - solo
saxophones, clarinets, and cheap keyboards
•
8:30pm
Talking Frog
Karen Stackpole - gongs
Bill Noertker - bass
•
Dan Plonsey is from Cleveland, Ohio. He began to play the clarinet at 5, then saxophone at age 9. Plonsey has written hundreds of compositions of the years, ranging from operas to pieces for solo saxophone and clarinet. On this occasion, he will present several of these latter works: composed, improvised, and on the spectrum in between.
Several new recordings of Plonsey's music will be available at this concert: Kabaddi Season (dance music for microtonal tenor saxophones & drum machines, inspired by Pygmy music, music from Bali, and Ornette); Dog Walk Season (music for tuba, saxophone, guitar, and drums); and Horton Holds Up the World (solo improvisations on G and Bb clarinet).
http://www.plonsey.com/index-music.html
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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, 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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Gong master/drummer/percussionist Karen Stackpole began her career as a rock drummer in the late ‘80s, playing with numerous bands between the Monterey and San Francisco Bay areas and touring up and down the west coast. Over the years she branched out, exploring blues, alterna-country, funk, jazz, and progressive rock as well as foraying into experimental music and alternative metal. Recent endeavors include drumming with Malcolm Mooney and the Tenth Planet, the Francis Wong Unit, and singer/songwriter Audrey Howard.
After years of communing with well-rendered Paiste alloys, she specializes in gongs and soundscapes in particular. In her explorations of metals, she has cultivated some distinctive techniques for drawing harmonics out of tam tams with various implements: rubber mallets, felt and yarn mallets, ball chains, bass and cello bows, kitchen utensils, and other small objects. Karen has also contributed gong sounds to more conventional musical styles in the genres of rock, jazz, classical, prog, psychedelic, cabaret, and blues.
Metalwork – Music for Gongs was her first solo effort released in 2000 on Limited Sedition. Her latest album on Dielectric Records with Die Elektrischen, Machine Shop, features gong improvisations, sometimes played against loops and soundscapes created from self-generated sonic material, tastefully affected with masterful processing by a wizard of the craft. Other solo and collaborative releases are out on Dielectric Records, Limited Sedition, Hypnos, and Pax Recording. Her music has been described as “gorgeous and thick, noisy and hypnotic, drony and transcendental” by Aquarius Records, SF. In 2009 her gong sounds were featured on a motion picture soundtrack for an independent full-length horror film entitled Seventh Moon.
http://www.bayimproviser.com/artistdetail.asp?artist_id=48
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Dan Plonsey - solo
saxophones, clarinets, and cheap keyboards
•
8:30pm
Talking Frog
Karen Stackpole - gongs
Bill Noertker - bass
•
Dan Plonsey is from Cleveland, Ohio. He began to play the clarinet at 5, then saxophone at age 9. Plonsey has written hundreds of compositions of the years, ranging from operas to pieces for solo saxophone and clarinet. On this occasion, he will present several of these latter works: composed, improvised, and on the spectrum in between.
Several new recordings of Plonsey's music will be available at this concert: Kabaddi Season (dance music for microtonal tenor saxophones & drum machines, inspired by Pygmy music, music from Bali, and Ornette); Dog Walk Season (music for tuba, saxophone, guitar, and drums); and Horton Holds Up the World (solo improvisations on G and Bb clarinet).
http://www.plonsey.com/index-music.html
•
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, 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
•
Gong master/drummer/percussionist Karen Stackpole began her career as a rock drummer in the late ‘80s, playing with numerous bands between the Monterey and San Francisco Bay areas and touring up and down the west coast. Over the years she branched out, exploring blues, alterna-country, funk, jazz, and progressive rock as well as foraying into experimental music and alternative metal. Recent endeavors include drumming with Malcolm Mooney and the Tenth Planet, the Francis Wong Unit, and singer/songwriter Audrey Howard.
After years of communing with well-rendered Paiste alloys, she specializes in gongs and soundscapes in particular. In her explorations of metals, she has cultivated some distinctive techniques for drawing harmonics out of tam tams with various implements: rubber mallets, felt and yarn mallets, ball chains, bass and cello bows, kitchen utensils, and other small objects. Karen has also contributed gong sounds to more conventional musical styles in the genres of rock, jazz, classical, prog, psychedelic, cabaret, and blues.
Metalwork – Music for Gongs was her first solo effort released in 2000 on Limited Sedition. Her latest album on Dielectric Records with Die Elektrischen, Machine Shop, features gong improvisations, sometimes played against loops and soundscapes created from self-generated sonic material, tastefully affected with masterful processing by a wizard of the craft. Other solo and collaborative releases are out on Dielectric Records, Limited Sedition, Hypnos, and Pax Recording. Her music has been described as “gorgeous and thick, noisy and hypnotic, drony and transcendental” by Aquarius Records, SF. In 2009 her gong sounds were featured on a motion picture soundtrack for an independent full-length horror film entitled Seventh Moon.
http://www.bayimproviser.com/artistdetail.asp?artist_id=48
7:30pm
Dan Plonsey - solo
saxophones, clarinets, and cheap keyboards
•
8:30pm
Talking Frog
Karen Stackpole - gongs
Bill Noertker - bass
•
Dan Plonsey is from Cleveland, Ohio. He began to play the clarinet at 5, then saxophone at age 9. Plonsey has written hundreds of compositions of the years, ranging from operas to pieces for solo saxophone and clarinet. On this occasion, he will present several of these latter works: composed, improvised, and on the spectrum in between.
Several new recordings of Plonsey's music will be available at this concert: Kabaddi Season (dance music for microtonal tenor saxophones & drum machines, inspired by Pygmy music, music from Bali, and Ornette); Dog Walk Season (music for tuba, saxophone, guitar, and drums); and Horton Holds Up the World (solo improvisations on G and Bb clarinet).
http://www.plonsey.com/index-music.html
•
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, 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
•
Gong master/drummer/percussionist Karen Stackpole began her career as a rock drummer in the late ‘80s, playing with numerous bands between the Monterey and San Francisco Bay areas and touring up and down the west coast. Over the years she branched out, exploring blues, alterna-country, funk, jazz, and progressive rock as well as foraying into experimental music and alternative metal. Recent endeavors include drumming with Malcolm Mooney and the Tenth Planet, the Francis Wong Unit, and singer/songwriter Audrey Howard.
After years of communing with well-rendered Paiste alloys, she specializes in gongs and soundscapes in particular. In her explorations of metals, she has cultivated some distinctive techniques for drawing harmonics out of tam tams with various implements: rubber mallets, felt and yarn mallets, ball chains, bass and cello bows, kitchen utensils, and other small objects. Karen has also contributed gong sounds to more conventional musical styles in the genres of rock, jazz, classical, prog, psychedelic, cabaret, and blues.
Metalwork – Music for Gongs was her first solo effort released in 2000 on Limited Sedition. Her latest album on Dielectric Records with Die Elektrischen, Machine Shop, features gong improvisations, sometimes played against loops and soundscapes created from self-generated sonic material, tastefully affected with masterful processing by a wizard of the craft. Other solo and collaborative releases are out on Dielectric Records, Limited Sedition, Hypnos, and Pax Recording. Her music has been described as “gorgeous and thick, noisy and hypnotic, drony and transcendental” by Aquarius Records, SF. In 2009 her gong sounds were featured on a motion picture soundtrack for an independent full-length horror film entitled Seventh Moon.
http://www.bayimproviser.com/artistdetail.asp?artist_id=48
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Dan Plonsey - solo
saxophones, clarinets, and cheap keyboards
•
8:30pm
Talking Frog
Karen Stackpole - gongs
Bill Noertker - bass
•
Dan Plonsey is from Cleveland, Ohio. He began to play the clarinet at 5, then saxophone at age 9. Plonsey has written hundreds of compositions of the years, ranging from operas to pieces for solo saxophone and clarinet. On this occasion, he will present several of these latter works: composed, improvised, and on the spectrum in between.
Several new recordings of Plonsey's music will be available at this concert: Kabaddi Season (dance music for microtonal tenor saxophones & drum machines, inspired by Pygmy music, music from Bali, and Ornette); Dog Walk Season (music for tuba, saxophone, guitar, and drums); and Horton Holds Up the World (solo improvisations on G and Bb clarinet).
http://www.plonsey.com/index-music.html
•
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, 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
•
Gong master/drummer/percussionist Karen Stackpole began her career as a rock drummer in the late ‘80s, playing with numerous bands between the Monterey and San Francisco Bay areas and touring up and down the west coast. Over the years she branched out, exploring blues, alterna-country, funk, jazz, and progressive rock as well as foraying into experimental music and alternative metal. Recent endeavors include drumming with Malcolm Mooney and the Tenth Planet, the Francis Wong Unit, and singer/songwriter Audrey Howard.
After years of communing with well-rendered Paiste alloys, she specializes in gongs and soundscapes in particular. In her explorations of metals, she has cultivated some distinctive techniques for drawing harmonics out of tam tams with various implements: rubber mallets, felt and yarn mallets, ball chains, bass and cello bows, kitchen utensils, and other small objects. Karen has also contributed gong sounds to more conventional musical styles in the genres of rock, jazz, classical, prog, psychedelic, cabaret, and blues.
Metalwork – Music for Gongs was her first solo effort released in 2000 on Limited Sedition. Her latest album on Dielectric Records with Die Elektrischen, Machine Shop, features gong improvisations, sometimes played against loops and soundscapes created from self-generated sonic material, tastefully affected with masterful processing by a wizard of the craft. Other solo and collaborative releases are out on Dielectric Records, Limited Sedition, Hypnos, and Pax Recording. Her music has been described as “gorgeous and thick, noisy and hypnotic, drony and transcendental” by Aquarius Records, SF. In 2009 her gong sounds were featured on a motion picture soundtrack for an independent full-length horror film entitled Seventh Moon.
http://www.bayimproviser.com/artistdetail.asp?artist_id=48
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