WEASEL WALTER IMPROVISED MUSIC
Extremely active (but underdocumented) in the Chicago new music scene between 1990-2002 and the Bay Area scene 2005-present. Weasel Walter has performed and/or recorded with such musicians as: |
| Liz Allbee Marshall Allen Josh Allen Alan Anzalone Jen Baker Jim Baker Mick Barr Josh Berman Jeb Bishop Kyle Bruckmann Charity Chan Sharon Cheslow Michael Colligan Gene Coleman John Corbett George Cremaschi Michael Cristol Alex Doerner Jim Dorling Kevin Drumm Mark Edwards Lisle Ellis Marco Eneidi Peter Evans Bob Falesch James Fei Gianni Gebbia Vinny Golia Frank Gratkowski Darin Gray Burton Greene Phillip Greenlief John Gruntfest Brent Gutzeit |
Mary Halvorson |
Tara Peterson William Pisarri Marino Pliakas Dylan Posa Carly Ptak Prasant Radhakrishnan Bhob Rainey Alec Ramsdell Evan Rapport Jon Raskin Mario Rechtern Todd Rittman Donald Robinson Aram Shelton Mark Shippy David Slusser Ches Smith Damon Smith Hermann Stangassinger Dave Stone Andrew Strain Randy Lee Sutherland Elizabeth Torres Birgit Ulher Joe Vajarsky Ken Vandermark Biggi Vinkeloe Michael Wertmuller G. Calvin Weston Matt Weston Mars Williams William Winant Azita Youseffi Michael Zerang and others |
AS SERIES FOUNDER/CURATOR:
Improvised
Music Workshop
founded
the weekly Improvised Music Workshop series at Myopic
Books, Chicago in March 1994
curated first 22 events and appeared intermittently afterwards
other curators included Kevin Drumm and
Michael Colligan
the workshop ceased operations in October 2001 was revived soon after by unknown parties. Most of the first several years of the workshop were videotaped, but the whereabouts of these tapes are unknown.
A Selected Discography of Improvised Works: