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Sun October 19, 2014

Talking Frog & Room 47

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Sunday, October 19, 2014

7:30pm
Room 47
gabby fluke-mogul - violin
John McCowen - clarinet
Adam Hirsch - reeds

8:30pm
Talking Frog
Karen Stackpole - gongs
Bill Noertker - bass

Outsound presents the SIMM Series
at Musicians' Union Hall
116 Ninth Street (near Mission) San Francisco CA 94103
$10 general • $8 students & seniors

gabby fluke-mogul is a performing, teaching, composing & collaborating-improviser based out of the bay area. she has existed as a violin-body in south florida, hampshire college, western massachusetts, & the wider/cold new england area. in addition to performing solo acoustic violin-body improvisations, gfm collaborates with local & touring ensembles, thesis performances, facilitates community-based workshops, & teaches in public, private, & non-profit learning spaces. gfm has performed in & with a variety of ensembles, installations, bodies, & instrument bodies. she is presently swimming through//with sound & silences at mills college on assistantship for improvisation performance & literature.
http://www.gabbyflukemogul.com

Adam Hirsch is a 22-year-old saxophonist, composer, and electronics performer from Los Angeles, CA. He has also lived in Oberlin, Ohio and Amsterdam, NL, and is currently based in Oakland, CA. Adam graduated from Oberlin College in 2014 with a B.A. in English, and is currently pursuing an M.F.A in Music at Mills College. His music strives to find and inhabit the borderlands between entropy and structure, movement and stasis, performance and processing, noise and song. Current projects include solo improvisation work, compositions for acoustic instruments with electronics, the audiovisual improvisation quartet Wisseler, and the experimental songwriting group Native Eloquence.
http://adamjhirsch.bandcamp.com/

John McCowen's musical path is rooted in the DIY culture of american hardcore music. John was a vocalist in hardcore music until he heard the music of Albert Ayler. At that point, he began channeling his energy through the saxophone. After a few years as a touring musician and independent study, he entered academia and studied clarinet with Eric P. Mandat who opened his eyes to microtonality and extended techniques. John is a member of the Chicago musical community now living in Oakland. He plays in Wei Zhongle, Vibrating Skull Trio, and John McCowen Clarinet Quartet.
http://johnmccowen.bandcamp.com/

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.”
http://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.

In the early ‘90s she became fascinated with improvised music and multi-media collaboration. She started joining forces with SF Bay Area musicians, playing new music and stretching beyond established boundaries as well as working with dancers and experimental film. At a Percussive Arts Society International Convention in 1991 she was exposed to the wonder of Paiste gongs and immediately altered her trajectory to include these incredibly versatile instruments into her musical vocabulary. She began to delve deeper into all aspects of the gong.

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.

She is active in the San Francisco Bay Area and Los Angeles creative music scenes and has participated in music festivals and performed solo in Seattle, Los Angeles, Baltimore, Chicago, and the Bay Area as well as collaborating with other gongists from the UK, Poland, and the US. Over the years she has played with Gino Robair, John Schott, Vinny Golia, Myles Boisen, Moe Staiano, Chris Heenan, Rod Poole, Steve Roden, Dean Santomieri, Le Quan Ninh, Francis Wong, and others. In addition to solo work, she currently performs and records with various projects including Sabbaticus Rex, Ghost in the House, the Bay Area Chamber Symphony, gongs/metals duo Euphonics, the improvising quartet Vorticella, and most recently in a duo with electronics master, Die Elektrischen.

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.

In addition to musical pursuits with gongs, Karen has also collaborated with sound healers, working with people with autism as well administering “gong baths” and delving into the transcendental aspects of the gong. She teaches drumming, gonging, and audio engineering and contributes regularly to DRUM! and Electronic Musician magazines and has also written for Onstage and Traps magazines. Ever since discovering the depth of Paiste cymbals, sounds, and gongs in 1991, Karen has played Paiste metals.
http://www.bayimproviser.com/artistdetail.asp?artist_id=48
Sunday, October 19, 2014

7:30pm
Room 47
gabby fluke-mogul - violin
John McCowen - clarinet
Adam Hirsch - reeds

8:30pm
Talking Frog
Karen Stackpole - gongs
Bill Noertker - bass

Outsound presents the SIMM Series
at Musicians' Union Hall
116 Ninth Street (near Mission) San Francisco CA 94103
$10 general • $8 students & seniors

gabby fluke-mogul is a performing, teaching, composing & collaborating-improviser based out of the bay area. she has existed as a violin-body in south florida, hampshire college, western massachusetts, & the wider/cold new england area. in addition to performing solo acoustic violin-body improvisations, gfm collaborates with local & touring ensembles, thesis performances, facilitates community-based workshops, & teaches in public, private, & non-profit learning spaces. gfm has performed in & with a variety of ensembles, installations, bodies, & instrument bodies. she is presently swimming through//with sound & silences at mills college on assistantship for improvisation performance & literature.
http://www.gabbyflukemogul.com

Adam Hirsch is a 22-year-old saxophonist, composer, and electronics performer from Los Angeles, CA. He has also lived in Oberlin, Ohio and Amsterdam, NL, and is currently based in Oakland, CA. Adam graduated from Oberlin College in 2014 with a B.A. in English, and is currently pursuing an M.F.A in Music at Mills College. His music strives to find and inhabit the borderlands between entropy and structure, movement and stasis, performance and processing, noise and song. Current projects include solo improvisation work, compositions for acoustic instruments with electronics, the audiovisual improvisation quartet Wisseler, and the experimental songwriting group Native Eloquence.
http://adamjhirsch.bandcamp.com/

John McCowen's musical path is rooted in the DIY culture of american hardcore music. John was a vocalist in hardcore music until he heard the music of Albert Ayler. At that point, he began channeling his energy through the saxophone. After a few years as a touring musician and independent study, he entered academia and studied clarinet with Eric P. Mandat who opened his eyes to microtonality and extended techniques. John is a member of the Chicago musical community now living in Oakland. He plays in Wei Zhongle, Vibrating Skull Trio, and John McCowen Clarinet Quartet.
http://johnmccowen.bandcamp.com/

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.”
http://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.

In the early ‘90s she became fascinated with improvised music and multi-media collaboration. She started joining forces with SF Bay Area musicians, playing new music and stretching beyond established boundaries as well as working with dancers and experimental film. At a Percussive Arts Society International Convention in 1991 she was exposed to the wonder of Paiste gongs and immediately altered her trajectory to include these incredibly versatile instruments into her musical vocabulary. She began to delve deeper into all aspects of the gong.

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.

She is active in the San Francisco Bay Area and Los Angeles creative music scenes and has participated in music festivals and performed solo in Seattle, Los Angeles, Baltimore, Chicago, and the Bay Area as well as collaborating with other gongists from the UK, Poland, and the US. Over the years she has played with Gino Robair, John Schott, Vinny Golia, Myles Boisen, Moe Staiano, Chris Heenan, Rod Poole, Steve Roden, Dean Santomieri, Le Quan Ninh, Francis Wong, and others. In addition to solo work, she currently performs and records with various projects including Sabbaticus Rex, Ghost in the House, the Bay Area Chamber Symphony, gongs/metals duo Euphonics, the improvising quartet Vorticella, and most recently in a duo with electronics master, Die Elektrischen.

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.

In addition to musical pursuits with gongs, Karen has also collaborated with sound healers, working with people with autism as well administering “gong baths” and delving into the transcendental aspects of the gong. She teaches drumming, gonging, and audio engineering and contributes regularly to DRUM! and Electronic Musician magazines and has also written for Onstage and Traps magazines. Ever since discovering the depth of Paiste cymbals, sounds, and gongs in 1991, Karen has played Paiste metals.
http://www.bayimproviser.com/artistdetail.asp?artist_id=48
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