Sunday, October 6, 2013
7:30pm
Joel Davel - Marimba Lumina, (Buchla) Lightning
8:30pm
Talking Frog
Karen Stackpole - gongs
Bill Noertker - contrabass
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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
•
Joel Davel has toured and recorded with a variety of groups that feature original music. Davel has been a duo collaborator with composer Paul Dresher and a member of Dresher's Electro-Acoustic Band since 1998. Davel's percussion career also includes performance and recording credits with groups led by electronic-diva Amy X Neuburg, percussionist William Winant, violinist Kaila Flexer, guitarist Jack West and guitarist David Tanenbaum. As a composer, soloist and improvisor, Davel has arranged and performed on-stage solo accompaniment for The California Shakespeare Theater, several productions for choreographer Claudine Naganuma and is currently collaborating on a new opera with tenor John Duykers. As an instrument builder, Davel began work with synthesizer pioneer Don Buchla in 1993 and continues as a circuit board designer for Buchla's innovative electronic music instruments such as the Marimba Lumina and Lightning. When dropped as a Buchla product, Davel created his own venture for continued creation and support for Marimba Luminas.
Expanding upon his training in acoustic percussion, Davel is most often noted for his musical approach to the use of electronics. His appearance at a Lincoln Center event prompted the Wall Street Journal to comment: “percussionist Joel Davel blew everyone away with his virtuosic improvisation on the Marimba Lumina, an electronic invention that emulates and extends the vocabulary of conventional mallet instruments, and the [Buchla] Lightning, played by waving wireless wands in space.”
http://www.isproductions.com/joel/
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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.
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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Since 2001, bassist/composer Bill Noertker has been composing and performing suites of music 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.
His group, Noertker's Moxie, 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 prestigious Festival de Cannes 2010 - Short Film Corner.
https://www.noertker.com
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7:30pm
Joel Davel - Marimba Lumina, (Buchla) Lightning
8:30pm
Talking Frog
Karen Stackpole - gongs
Bill Noertker - contrabass
•
Outsound presents
the SIMM Series at Musicians' Union Hall
116 Ninth Street (near Mission) San Francisco CA 94103
$10 general • $8 students & seniors
•
Joel Davel has toured and recorded with a variety of groups that feature original music. Davel has been a duo collaborator with composer Paul Dresher and a member of Dresher's Electro-Acoustic Band since 1998. Davel's percussion career also includes performance and recording credits with groups led by electronic-diva Amy X Neuburg, percussionist William Winant, violinist Kaila Flexer, guitarist Jack West and guitarist David Tanenbaum. As a composer, soloist and improvisor, Davel has arranged and performed on-stage solo accompaniment for The California Shakespeare Theater, several productions for choreographer Claudine Naganuma and is currently collaborating on a new opera with tenor John Duykers. As an instrument builder, Davel began work with synthesizer pioneer Don Buchla in 1993 and continues as a circuit board designer for Buchla's innovative electronic music instruments such as the Marimba Lumina and Lightning. When dropped as a Buchla product, Davel created his own venture for continued creation and support for Marimba Luminas.
Expanding upon his training in acoustic percussion, Davel is most often noted for his musical approach to the use of electronics. His appearance at a Lincoln Center event prompted the Wall Street Journal to comment: “percussionist Joel Davel blew everyone away with his virtuosic improvisation on the Marimba Lumina, an electronic invention that emulates and extends the vocabulary of conventional mallet instruments, and the [Buchla] Lightning, played by waving wireless wands in space.”
http://www.isproductions.com/joel/
•
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
•
Since 2001, bassist/composer Bill Noertker has been composing and performing suites of music 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.
His group, Noertker's Moxie, 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 prestigious Festival de Cannes 2010 - Short Film Corner.
https://www.noertker.com
Sunday, October 6, 2013
7:30pm
Joel Davel - Marimba Lumina, (Buchla) Lightning
8:30pm
Talking Frog
Karen Stackpole - gongs
Bill Noertker - contrabass
•
Outsound presents
the SIMM Series at Musicians' Union Hall
116 Ninth Street (near Mission) San Francisco CA 94103
$10 general • $8 students & seniors
•
Joel Davel has toured and recorded with a variety of groups that feature original music. Davel has been a duo collaborator with composer Paul Dresher and a member of Dresher's Electro-Acoustic Band since 1998. Davel's percussion career also includes performance and recording credits with groups led by electronic-diva Amy X Neuburg, percussionist William Winant, violinist Kaila Flexer, guitarist Jack West and guitarist David Tanenbaum. As a composer, soloist and improvisor, Davel has arranged and performed on-stage solo accompaniment for The California Shakespeare Theater, several productions for choreographer Claudine Naganuma and is currently collaborating on a new opera with tenor John Duykers. As an instrument builder, Davel began work with synthesizer pioneer Don Buchla in 1993 and continues as a circuit board designer for Buchla's innovative electronic music instruments such as the Marimba Lumina and Lightning. When dropped as a Buchla product, Davel created his own venture for continued creation and support for Marimba Luminas.
Expanding upon his training in acoustic percussion, Davel is most often noted for his musical approach to the use of electronics. His appearance at a Lincoln Center event prompted the Wall Street Journal to comment: “percussionist Joel Davel blew everyone away with his virtuosic improvisation on the Marimba Lumina, an electronic invention that emulates and extends the vocabulary of conventional mallet instruments, and the [Buchla] Lightning, played by waving wireless wands in space.”
http://www.isproductions.com/joel/
•
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
•
Since 2001, bassist/composer Bill Noertker has been composing and performing suites of music 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.
His group, Noertker's Moxie, 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 prestigious Festival de Cannes 2010 - Short Film Corner.
https://www.noertker.com
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7:30pm
Joel Davel - Marimba Lumina, (Buchla) Lightning
8:30pm
Talking Frog
Karen Stackpole - gongs
Bill Noertker - contrabass
•
Outsound presents
the SIMM Series at Musicians' Union Hall
116 Ninth Street (near Mission) San Francisco CA 94103
$10 general • $8 students & seniors
•
Joel Davel has toured and recorded with a variety of groups that feature original music. Davel has been a duo collaborator with composer Paul Dresher and a member of Dresher's Electro-Acoustic Band since 1998. Davel's percussion career also includes performance and recording credits with groups led by electronic-diva Amy X Neuburg, percussionist William Winant, violinist Kaila Flexer, guitarist Jack West and guitarist David Tanenbaum. As a composer, soloist and improvisor, Davel has arranged and performed on-stage solo accompaniment for The California Shakespeare Theater, several productions for choreographer Claudine Naganuma and is currently collaborating on a new opera with tenor John Duykers. As an instrument builder, Davel began work with synthesizer pioneer Don Buchla in 1993 and continues as a circuit board designer for Buchla's innovative electronic music instruments such as the Marimba Lumina and Lightning. When dropped as a Buchla product, Davel created his own venture for continued creation and support for Marimba Luminas.
Expanding upon his training in acoustic percussion, Davel is most often noted for his musical approach to the use of electronics. His appearance at a Lincoln Center event prompted the Wall Street Journal to comment: “percussionist Joel Davel blew everyone away with his virtuosic improvisation on the Marimba Lumina, an electronic invention that emulates and extends the vocabulary of conventional mallet instruments, and the [Buchla] Lightning, played by waving wireless wands in space.”
http://www.isproductions.com/joel/
•
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
•
Since 2001, bassist/composer Bill Noertker has been composing and performing suites of music 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.
His group, Noertker's Moxie, 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 prestigious Festival de Cannes 2010 - Short Film Corner.
https://www.noertker.com
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