2008: Noertker’s Moxie

performing a new suite of music, “La Naturecanique,” to the film loops of David Beck “La Naturecanique” is inspired by film maker/musician David Beck”s intimately-scaled moving sculptures. Film loops of each moving sculpture will be projected while the band is performing each piece. The use of loops will remove the time constraints usually associated with film scoring and allow for the exploratory and open-ended compositions that Noertker’s Moxie favors.

For this performance, Noertker’s Moxie will include Noertker’s long-time co-collaborator Annelise Zamula on tenor saxophone and flute, David Beck on baritone saxophone, Jenny Maybee on piano, Bill Noertker on contrabass, and a drummer TBA.

Bassist/composer Bill Noertker has been writing and performing new music in the San Francisco Bay Area since 1987. Noertker has studied with the renowned cornetist Bobby Bradford, composition under the tutelage of Aldo Ryzy-Ryzky while a member of the experimental art rock band, Bardo. In the late 1990s, Noertker traveled to Europe, to soak up the culture and play music. In the year 2001 he formed his own group, Noertker's Moxie, as a forum for his thematic compositions. Since that time he has been exploring the relationship between the visual and the aural with a series of suites inspired by the works of visual artists such as Salvador Dalí, Joan Miró, Paul Klee, Wassily Kandinsky, and Pablo Picasso, architect Antoni Gaudí, poet Rainer Maria Rilke, sculptor David Beck, and others. Since 2001 Noertker has composed 12 suites of music for Noertker's Moxie, including a score for David Beck’s short film “Animatique.”

David Beck is a major American artist. He has been creating intimately-scaled moving sculptures since the 70s. His most recent work, MVSEVM, is in the Smithsonian American Art Museum's permanent collection. Commissioned by the museum, David Beck created MVSEVM, an exquisitely crafted world in miniature; the work reflects the neoclassical architecture of the building, from the 1840s when it was the U.S. Patent Office to the present day. Other works by Beck have also been shown at the Smithsonian, including L’Opera and Movie Palace. Noertker first collaborated with Beck when he was commissioned to score Beck's movie “Animatique” which was shown at Beck's 2004 exhibit at the Allan Stone Gallery in New York.

Artist (photo by Photographer)