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 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. Since then he has composed over 200 pieces of music and has released twenty-two CDs on the Edgetone Records label, including BONK—electric bass duets with Oliver Kogod; Dream Suite (for Lily Loomis); in flitters (49 bits from B*ck*tt)—an absurdist suite inspired by Samuel Beckett's Watt; the soundtrack for Curious Worlds: the Art and Imagination of David Beck; and the extended suites Sketches of Catalonia; the Blue Rider; the Druidh; Tricycle; and In Billville. Two new albums have been released in 2026—BONK, an album of electric bass duets with Oliver Kogod; and a new Noertker's Moxie album, the Antwerp Diaries (an audio journal), inspired by a recent journey.

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