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
Twig Harper
Paul Hartsaw
Mark Hennen
Jennifer Hicks
Sam Hillmer
Paul Hoskins
Adris Hoyos
Otto Huber
Steve Hunt
Matt Ingalls
John Ingle
Thymme Jones
Aurora Josephson
Henry Kaiser
Terri Kapsalis
Greg Kelley
DD Kern
Kent Kessler
Henry Kuntz
Elliott Levin
Jacob Lindsay
Fred Lonberg-Holm
Todd Margasak
Bob Marsh
Ava Mendoza
Lisa Mezzcappa
Ben Miller
Mark E. Miller
Joe Morris
Curt Newton
Jim O'Rourke
Jeff Parker
Tim Perkis

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:

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