MUSIC

They, Who Sound & AvantGarden present They, Who Sound: Weasel Walter/David Dove/Sandy Ewen/Damon Smith, Monday, August 8 at 7pm at Avant Garden. Another in a Houston series for experimental sound-making, improvised music, free jazz, underground noise, electro-acoustic performance, psychedelia, improvised dance, and "musique brut."

From New York (via Oakland via Chicago),
Weasel Walter - (pictured) drums

in a collective quartet with:
David Dove (Houston) - trombone
Sandy Ewen (Houston) - guitar
Damon Smith (Houston) - bass

Weasel Walter is a composer and instrumentalist who founded the band The Flying Luttenbachers in Chicago in 1991 with late jazz cult figure Hal Russell. Over the years, that band has included noted Chicago musicians such as Ken Vandermark, Jeb Bishop, Fred Lonberg-Holm, Dylan Posa, while creating an uncompromising and mercurial body of abstract music drawing equally from no wave, death metal, free jazz, gamelan, noise music, hardcore punk and modern classical.

Walter moved to the San Francisco Bay Area in 2003, where he formed the latest of many Luttenbachers lineups, remaining on percussion with the addition of bassist Mike Green (Burmese), and virtuoso guitarist Ed Rodriguez (ex-Colossamite, Gorge Trio). Singular guitar phenomenon Mick Barr (Octis, Orthrelm) joined the group in 2005. The Flying Luttenbachers ceased to operate in late 2007. In addition to leading various free jazz ensembles under his own name, currently he is a member of Burmese. On November 25, 2009, Weasel Walter announced that he was moving to New York City to join the band Behold... The Arctopus on drums and will be writing "new, more extreme material from scratch."