Sunday, March 2, 2014
•
7:30pm
Ze Bib!
Shanna Sordahl - cello/electronics
Robert Lopez - percussion
•
8:30pm
Noertker's Moxie - season opener
Annelise Zamula - tenor sax, flute
Mark Oi - guitar
Bill Noertker - contrabass
Jordan Glenn - drums
•
Outsound presents the SIMM Series
at Musicians' Union Hall
116 Ninth Street (near Mission) San Francisco CA 94103
$10 general • $8 students & seniors
•
http://www.noertker.com
http://www.annelisezamula.com/
http://www.thefrankagency.org/Mark.htm
http://www.jordanglennmusic.com
http://www.shannasordahl.net/current-projects.html
https://soundcloud.com/shanna-sordahl
http://robertlopezmusic.tumblr.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 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.”
•
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.
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Mark Oi is a guitarist, composer and music educator that has been performing and recording nationally and internationally for the last 25 years in a variety of genres. He spent a decade performing, touring and collaborating with Danish jazz saxophone legend John Tchicai. During this time he performed on Danish and German National Radio, The Knitting Factory, Bauhaus, Copenhagen Jazz Haus, Yoshis, Kuumbwa Jazz, the Griefswald Jazz Festival, the Monterey Jazz Festival, and the San Francisco Jazz
Festival. In 2001 he relocated to Seattle, where he played with Clinton Fearon recording on 4 albums and toured the United States, France, England, Belgium, Canada, and Guam. In Seattle, Oi also worked with Publish the Quest, recording three albums and performing in Cape Verde, Zimbabwe, Portugal, Poland, Canada and the United States. He has worked with De Cajon, a seattle-based Afro-Peruvian ensemble, studying and performing with international artists Miguel Ballumbrosio, Marina Lavalle, Cotito, Robert Arguellas, and Monica Rojas. The jazz group, Reptet featured him as a guest artist on two CDs. Recently he has been working on a recording with the improvisation trio, Mouth of Gravity consisting of Oi, Denney Goodhew and Adam Kessler. He currently resides in Alameda, CA
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Jordan Glenn spent his formative years in Oregon drawing cartoons, taking dance classes from his aunt, and putting on plays with his sisters. As he got older he began making movies with his friends and studying lots of jazz, classical, and rock music. In 2003 Glenn received a degree in Jazz Studies from the University of Oregon. In 2006 he relocated to the Bay Area and since has worked closely with Fred Frith, William Winant, Zeena Parkins, Roscoe Mitchell, Ben Goldberg, Todd Sickafoose, John Schott, Darren Johnston, Aram Shelton, Cory Wright, Lisa Mezzacappa, Karl Evangelista, Michael Coleman and the bands Jack O' The Clock, Arts & Sciences, 20 Minute Loop, Beep!, tUnE-yArDs, and the Oakland Active Orchestra. He also leads and conducts the project Mindless Thing, a collaboration with poet/free-jazzer/sage Jim Ryan, as well as the long standing trio Wiener Kids and the ten piece expansion, The Wiener Kids Family Band.
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Ze Bib! is a collaborative effort between cellist/electronic musician Shanna Sordahl and percussionist Robert Lopez. Their music grapples with the spastic intensity arising from their explorations into sound worlds developed both collectively and independently. Currently, they have been cultivating interpretations of material and psychological structures grown out of improvisations and the deconstruction of composed melodic and rhythmic material.
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Shanna Sordahl is an American-Canadian sound artist and composer currently living in Oakland, CA. Due to her interdisciplinary interests and love of diversity her work takes on many forms, from site-specific installations to collaborations with choreographers. Recently she finished an MFA in Electronic Music and Recording Media at Mills College where her focuses were digital and analog synthesis, installation work, cello improvisation and audio engineering. She also holds a BA in music from Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario where her concentration included both electroacoustic music and religious studies.
She strives to relate her musical projects to her interests in alternative education, do-it-yourself crafts, and alternative and sustainable living practices. Many of her current projects emphasize small, often unnoticed sounds and focus on the relationship between the listener and the surrounding environment.
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Born and raised throughout the greater Los Angeles area, now residing in Oakland, Robert Lopez is a percussionist working in an array of ensembles which span the various facets of experimental music including contemporary composition, free improvisation, and into pop and rock. He holds a Bachelor’s of Music Degree in Music Performance from the Bob Cole Conservatory at Cal State Long Beach. There he studied mallet and multiple percussion with Dr. Michael Carney and Dr. Dave Gerhart, hand percussion with Brad Dutz, Ghanaian Ewe drumming with Neili Sutker and Eric Hartwell and drum set with Randy Drake. At the university he performed in various ensembles including the World Percussion Group (which played folkloric music of Brazil and West Africa), the Steel Drum Orchestra, the Percussion Ensemble and the University Orchestra. Outside of his degree work in Long Beach he recorded and performed with rock bands Wild Pack of Canaries, Bobby Blunders, New Lights By Dead Vines and the Vespertines. He also holds a Master of Fine Arts Degree in Music Performance with an emphasis in improvisation from Mills College where he studied contemporary percussion with William Winant, improvisation with Fred Frith, Roscoe Mitchell, and Zeena Parkins and Ewe drumming with C.K. Ladzekpo. Since graduating, his time has been spent making music with bands Opera Wolf, Quattour Elephantis, ZE BIB! and Jordan Glenn’s Mindless Thing. Recent and upcoming achievements include the premier of ‘Work Around the World’ by Aaron Gervais for Other Minds Festival 18, a slot at the 12th Annual Outsound New Music Summit Festival with Opera Wolf, a premier performance of ‘My Frustration of You Elevates to This’ by Moe! Staiano at the14th Annual San Francisco Electronic Music Festival and a performance by Grex at the 2014 Switchboard Music Festival which follows the recording and release of their full-length album Monster Music. Currently, he is on staff at UC Berkeley, Mills College, and the Oberlin Dance Collective in San Francisco as a dance accompanist and teaches private percussion lessons out of his studio in Emeryville, CA.
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•
7:30pm
Ze Bib!
Shanna Sordahl - cello/electronics
Robert Lopez - percussion
•
8:30pm
Noertker's Moxie - season opener
Annelise Zamula - tenor sax, flute
Mark Oi - guitar
Bill Noertker - contrabass
Jordan Glenn - drums
•
Outsound presents the SIMM Series
at Musicians' Union Hall
116 Ninth Street (near Mission) San Francisco CA 94103
$10 general • $8 students & seniors
•
http://www.noertker.com
http://www.annelisezamula.com/
http://www.thefrankagency.org/Mark.htm
http://www.jordanglennmusic.com
http://www.shannasordahl.net/current-projects.html
https://soundcloud.com/shanna-sordahl
http://robertlopezmusic.tumblr.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.”
•
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.
•
Mark Oi is a guitarist, composer and music educator that has been performing and recording nationally and internationally for the last 25 years in a variety of genres. He spent a decade performing, touring and collaborating with Danish jazz saxophone legend John Tchicai. During this time he performed on Danish and German National Radio, The Knitting Factory, Bauhaus, Copenhagen Jazz Haus, Yoshis, Kuumbwa Jazz, the Griefswald Jazz Festival, the Monterey Jazz Festival, and the San Francisco Jazz
Festival. In 2001 he relocated to Seattle, where he played with Clinton Fearon recording on 4 albums and toured the United States, France, England, Belgium, Canada, and Guam. In Seattle, Oi also worked with Publish the Quest, recording three albums and performing in Cape Verde, Zimbabwe, Portugal, Poland, Canada and the United States. He has worked with De Cajon, a seattle-based Afro-Peruvian ensemble, studying and performing with international artists Miguel Ballumbrosio, Marina Lavalle, Cotito, Robert Arguellas, and Monica Rojas. The jazz group, Reptet featured him as a guest artist on two CDs. Recently he has been working on a recording with the improvisation trio, Mouth of Gravity consisting of Oi, Denney Goodhew and Adam Kessler. He currently resides in Alameda, CA
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Jordan Glenn spent his formative years in Oregon drawing cartoons, taking dance classes from his aunt, and putting on plays with his sisters. As he got older he began making movies with his friends and studying lots of jazz, classical, and rock music. In 2003 Glenn received a degree in Jazz Studies from the University of Oregon. In 2006 he relocated to the Bay Area and since has worked closely with Fred Frith, William Winant, Zeena Parkins, Roscoe Mitchell, Ben Goldberg, Todd Sickafoose, John Schott, Darren Johnston, Aram Shelton, Cory Wright, Lisa Mezzacappa, Karl Evangelista, Michael Coleman and the bands Jack O' The Clock, Arts & Sciences, 20 Minute Loop, Beep!, tUnE-yArDs, and the Oakland Active Orchestra. He also leads and conducts the project Mindless Thing, a collaboration with poet/free-jazzer/sage Jim Ryan, as well as the long standing trio Wiener Kids and the ten piece expansion, The Wiener Kids Family Band.
•
Ze Bib! is a collaborative effort between cellist/electronic musician Shanna Sordahl and percussionist Robert Lopez. Their music grapples with the spastic intensity arising from their explorations into sound worlds developed both collectively and independently. Currently, they have been cultivating interpretations of material and psychological structures grown out of improvisations and the deconstruction of composed melodic and rhythmic material.
•
Shanna Sordahl is an American-Canadian sound artist and composer currently living in Oakland, CA. Due to her interdisciplinary interests and love of diversity her work takes on many forms, from site-specific installations to collaborations with choreographers. Recently she finished an MFA in Electronic Music and Recording Media at Mills College where her focuses were digital and analog synthesis, installation work, cello improvisation and audio engineering. She also holds a BA in music from Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario where her concentration included both electroacoustic music and religious studies.
She strives to relate her musical projects to her interests in alternative education, do-it-yourself crafts, and alternative and sustainable living practices. Many of her current projects emphasize small, often unnoticed sounds and focus on the relationship between the listener and the surrounding environment.
•
Born and raised throughout the greater Los Angeles area, now residing in Oakland, Robert Lopez is a percussionist working in an array of ensembles which span the various facets of experimental music including contemporary composition, free improvisation, and into pop and rock. He holds a Bachelor’s of Music Degree in Music Performance from the Bob Cole Conservatory at Cal State Long Beach. There he studied mallet and multiple percussion with Dr. Michael Carney and Dr. Dave Gerhart, hand percussion with Brad Dutz, Ghanaian Ewe drumming with Neili Sutker and Eric Hartwell and drum set with Randy Drake. At the university he performed in various ensembles including the World Percussion Group (which played folkloric music of Brazil and West Africa), the Steel Drum Orchestra, the Percussion Ensemble and the University Orchestra. Outside of his degree work in Long Beach he recorded and performed with rock bands Wild Pack of Canaries, Bobby Blunders, New Lights By Dead Vines and the Vespertines. He also holds a Master of Fine Arts Degree in Music Performance with an emphasis in improvisation from Mills College where he studied contemporary percussion with William Winant, improvisation with Fred Frith, Roscoe Mitchell, and Zeena Parkins and Ewe drumming with C.K. Ladzekpo. Since graduating, his time has been spent making music with bands Opera Wolf, Quattour Elephantis, ZE BIB! and Jordan Glenn’s Mindless Thing. Recent and upcoming achievements include the premier of ‘Work Around the World’ by Aaron Gervais for Other Minds Festival 18, a slot at the 12th Annual Outsound New Music Summit Festival with Opera Wolf, a premier performance of ‘My Frustration of You Elevates to This’ by Moe! Staiano at the14th Annual San Francisco Electronic Music Festival and a performance by Grex at the 2014 Switchboard Music Festival which follows the recording and release of their full-length album Monster Music. Currently, he is on staff at UC Berkeley, Mills College, and the Oberlin Dance Collective in San Francisco as a dance accompanist and teaches private percussion lessons out of his studio in Emeryville, CA.
Sunday, March 2, 2014
•
7:30pm
Ze Bib!
Shanna Sordahl - cello/electronics
Robert Lopez - percussion
•
8:30pm
Noertker's Moxie - season opener
Annelise Zamula - tenor sax, flute
Mark Oi - guitar
Bill Noertker - contrabass
Jordan Glenn - drums
•
Outsound presents the SIMM Series
at Musicians' Union Hall
116 Ninth Street (near Mission) San Francisco CA 94103
$10 general • $8 students & seniors
•
http://www.noertker.com
http://www.annelisezamula.com/
http://www.thefrankagency.org/Mark.htm
http://www.jordanglennmusic.com
http://www.shannasordahl.net/current-projects.html
https://soundcloud.com/shanna-sordahl
http://robertlopezmusic.tumblr.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.”
•
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.
•
Mark Oi is a guitarist, composer and music educator that has been performing and recording nationally and internationally for the last 25 years in a variety of genres. He spent a decade performing, touring and collaborating with Danish jazz saxophone legend John Tchicai. During this time he performed on Danish and German National Radio, The Knitting Factory, Bauhaus, Copenhagen Jazz Haus, Yoshis, Kuumbwa Jazz, the Griefswald Jazz Festival, the Monterey Jazz Festival, and the San Francisco Jazz
Festival. In 2001 he relocated to Seattle, where he played with Clinton Fearon recording on 4 albums and toured the United States, France, England, Belgium, Canada, and Guam. In Seattle, Oi also worked with Publish the Quest, recording three albums and performing in Cape Verde, Zimbabwe, Portugal, Poland, Canada and the United States. He has worked with De Cajon, a seattle-based Afro-Peruvian ensemble, studying and performing with international artists Miguel Ballumbrosio, Marina Lavalle, Cotito, Robert Arguellas, and Monica Rojas. The jazz group, Reptet featured him as a guest artist on two CDs. Recently he has been working on a recording with the improvisation trio, Mouth of Gravity consisting of Oi, Denney Goodhew and Adam Kessler. He currently resides in Alameda, CA
.•
Jordan Glenn spent his formative years in Oregon drawing cartoons, taking dance classes from his aunt, and putting on plays with his sisters. As he got older he began making movies with his friends and studying lots of jazz, classical, and rock music. In 2003 Glenn received a degree in Jazz Studies from the University of Oregon. In 2006 he relocated to the Bay Area and since has worked closely with Fred Frith, William Winant, Zeena Parkins, Roscoe Mitchell, Ben Goldberg, Todd Sickafoose, John Schott, Darren Johnston, Aram Shelton, Cory Wright, Lisa Mezzacappa, Karl Evangelista, Michael Coleman and the bands Jack O' The Clock, Arts & Sciences, 20 Minute Loop, Beep!, tUnE-yArDs, and the Oakland Active Orchestra. He also leads and conducts the project Mindless Thing, a collaboration with poet/free-jazzer/sage Jim Ryan, as well as the long standing trio Wiener Kids and the ten piece expansion, The Wiener Kids Family Band.
•
Ze Bib! is a collaborative effort between cellist/electronic musician Shanna Sordahl and percussionist Robert Lopez. Their music grapples with the spastic intensity arising from their explorations into sound worlds developed both collectively and independently. Currently, they have been cultivating interpretations of material and psychological structures grown out of improvisations and the deconstruction of composed melodic and rhythmic material.
•
Shanna Sordahl is an American-Canadian sound artist and composer currently living in Oakland, CA. Due to her interdisciplinary interests and love of diversity her work takes on many forms, from site-specific installations to collaborations with choreographers. Recently she finished an MFA in Electronic Music and Recording Media at Mills College where her focuses were digital and analog synthesis, installation work, cello improvisation and audio engineering. She also holds a BA in music from Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario where her concentration included both electroacoustic music and religious studies.
She strives to relate her musical projects to her interests in alternative education, do-it-yourself crafts, and alternative and sustainable living practices. Many of her current projects emphasize small, often unnoticed sounds and focus on the relationship between the listener and the surrounding environment.
•
Born and raised throughout the greater Los Angeles area, now residing in Oakland, Robert Lopez is a percussionist working in an array of ensembles which span the various facets of experimental music including contemporary composition, free improvisation, and into pop and rock. He holds a Bachelor’s of Music Degree in Music Performance from the Bob Cole Conservatory at Cal State Long Beach. There he studied mallet and multiple percussion with Dr. Michael Carney and Dr. Dave Gerhart, hand percussion with Brad Dutz, Ghanaian Ewe drumming with Neili Sutker and Eric Hartwell and drum set with Randy Drake. At the university he performed in various ensembles including the World Percussion Group (which played folkloric music of Brazil and West Africa), the Steel Drum Orchestra, the Percussion Ensemble and the University Orchestra. Outside of his degree work in Long Beach he recorded and performed with rock bands Wild Pack of Canaries, Bobby Blunders, New Lights By Dead Vines and the Vespertines. He also holds a Master of Fine Arts Degree in Music Performance with an emphasis in improvisation from Mills College where he studied contemporary percussion with William Winant, improvisation with Fred Frith, Roscoe Mitchell, and Zeena Parkins and Ewe drumming with C.K. Ladzekpo. Since graduating, his time has been spent making music with bands Opera Wolf, Quattour Elephantis, ZE BIB! and Jordan Glenn’s Mindless Thing. Recent and upcoming achievements include the premier of ‘Work Around the World’ by Aaron Gervais for Other Minds Festival 18, a slot at the 12th Annual Outsound New Music Summit Festival with Opera Wolf, a premier performance of ‘My Frustration of You Elevates to This’ by Moe! Staiano at the14th Annual San Francisco Electronic Music Festival and a performance by Grex at the 2014 Switchboard Music Festival which follows the recording and release of their full-length album Monster Music. Currently, he is on staff at UC Berkeley, Mills College, and the Oberlin Dance Collective in San Francisco as a dance accompanist and teaches private percussion lessons out of his studio in Emeryville, CA.
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•
7:30pm
Ze Bib!
Shanna Sordahl - cello/electronics
Robert Lopez - percussion
•
8:30pm
Noertker's Moxie - season opener
Annelise Zamula - tenor sax, flute
Mark Oi - guitar
Bill Noertker - contrabass
Jordan Glenn - drums
•
Outsound presents the SIMM Series
at Musicians' Union Hall
116 Ninth Street (near Mission) San Francisco CA 94103
$10 general • $8 students & seniors
•
http://www.noertker.com
http://www.annelisezamula.com/
http://www.thefrankagency.org/Mark.htm
http://www.jordanglennmusic.com
http://www.shannasordahl.net/current-projects.html
https://soundcloud.com/shanna-sordahl
http://robertlopezmusic.tumblr.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.”
•
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.
•
Mark Oi is a guitarist, composer and music educator that has been performing and recording nationally and internationally for the last 25 years in a variety of genres. He spent a decade performing, touring and collaborating with Danish jazz saxophone legend John Tchicai. During this time he performed on Danish and German National Radio, The Knitting Factory, Bauhaus, Copenhagen Jazz Haus, Yoshis, Kuumbwa Jazz, the Griefswald Jazz Festival, the Monterey Jazz Festival, and the San Francisco Jazz
Festival. In 2001 he relocated to Seattle, where he played with Clinton Fearon recording on 4 albums and toured the United States, France, England, Belgium, Canada, and Guam. In Seattle, Oi also worked with Publish the Quest, recording three albums and performing in Cape Verde, Zimbabwe, Portugal, Poland, Canada and the United States. He has worked with De Cajon, a seattle-based Afro-Peruvian ensemble, studying and performing with international artists Miguel Ballumbrosio, Marina Lavalle, Cotito, Robert Arguellas, and Monica Rojas. The jazz group, Reptet featured him as a guest artist on two CDs. Recently he has been working on a recording with the improvisation trio, Mouth of Gravity consisting of Oi, Denney Goodhew and Adam Kessler. He currently resides in Alameda, CA
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Jordan Glenn spent his formative years in Oregon drawing cartoons, taking dance classes from his aunt, and putting on plays with his sisters. As he got older he began making movies with his friends and studying lots of jazz, classical, and rock music. In 2003 Glenn received a degree in Jazz Studies from the University of Oregon. In 2006 he relocated to the Bay Area and since has worked closely with Fred Frith, William Winant, Zeena Parkins, Roscoe Mitchell, Ben Goldberg, Todd Sickafoose, John Schott, Darren Johnston, Aram Shelton, Cory Wright, Lisa Mezzacappa, Karl Evangelista, Michael Coleman and the bands Jack O' The Clock, Arts & Sciences, 20 Minute Loop, Beep!, tUnE-yArDs, and the Oakland Active Orchestra. He also leads and conducts the project Mindless Thing, a collaboration with poet/free-jazzer/sage Jim Ryan, as well as the long standing trio Wiener Kids and the ten piece expansion, The Wiener Kids Family Band.
•
Ze Bib! is a collaborative effort between cellist/electronic musician Shanna Sordahl and percussionist Robert Lopez. Their music grapples with the spastic intensity arising from their explorations into sound worlds developed both collectively and independently. Currently, they have been cultivating interpretations of material and psychological structures grown out of improvisations and the deconstruction of composed melodic and rhythmic material.
•
Shanna Sordahl is an American-Canadian sound artist and composer currently living in Oakland, CA. Due to her interdisciplinary interests and love of diversity her work takes on many forms, from site-specific installations to collaborations with choreographers. Recently she finished an MFA in Electronic Music and Recording Media at Mills College where her focuses were digital and analog synthesis, installation work, cello improvisation and audio engineering. She also holds a BA in music from Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario where her concentration included both electroacoustic music and religious studies.
She strives to relate her musical projects to her interests in alternative education, do-it-yourself crafts, and alternative and sustainable living practices. Many of her current projects emphasize small, often unnoticed sounds and focus on the relationship between the listener and the surrounding environment.
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Born and raised throughout the greater Los Angeles area, now residing in Oakland, Robert Lopez is a percussionist working in an array of ensembles which span the various facets of experimental music including contemporary composition, free improvisation, and into pop and rock. He holds a Bachelor’s of Music Degree in Music Performance from the Bob Cole Conservatory at Cal State Long Beach. There he studied mallet and multiple percussion with Dr. Michael Carney and Dr. Dave Gerhart, hand percussion with Brad Dutz, Ghanaian Ewe drumming with Neili Sutker and Eric Hartwell and drum set with Randy Drake. At the university he performed in various ensembles including the World Percussion Group (which played folkloric music of Brazil and West Africa), the Steel Drum Orchestra, the Percussion Ensemble and the University Orchestra. Outside of his degree work in Long Beach he recorded and performed with rock bands Wild Pack of Canaries, Bobby Blunders, New Lights By Dead Vines and the Vespertines. He also holds a Master of Fine Arts Degree in Music Performance with an emphasis in improvisation from Mills College where he studied contemporary percussion with William Winant, improvisation with Fred Frith, Roscoe Mitchell, and Zeena Parkins and Ewe drumming with C.K. Ladzekpo. Since graduating, his time has been spent making music with bands Opera Wolf, Quattour Elephantis, ZE BIB! and Jordan Glenn’s Mindless Thing. Recent and upcoming achievements include the premier of ‘Work Around the World’ by Aaron Gervais for Other Minds Festival 18, a slot at the 12th Annual Outsound New Music Summit Festival with Opera Wolf, a premier performance of ‘My Frustration of You Elevates to This’ by Moe! Staiano at the14th Annual San Francisco Electronic Music Festival and a performance by Grex at the 2014 Switchboard Music Festival which follows the recording and release of their full-length album Monster Music. Currently, he is on staff at UC Berkeley, Mills College, and the Oberlin Dance Collective in San Francisco as a dance accompanist and teaches private percussion lessons out of his studio in Emeryville, CA.
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