b.
Pasadena, CA
16
February 1961
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 nineteen CDs on the Edgetone
Records label, including his
most recent—in flitters (49 bits
from B*ck*tt); 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.
upcoming
in 2024-2025
mixing and mastering a trio recording
of
"dream suite for
Lily
Loomis"
music composed for Loomis' most recent
installation
electric bass duets
collaborative composition &
improvisation
with Oliver Kogod
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