Weasel is an instrumentalist and composer who co-founded the band The Flying Luttenbachers, Chicago’s jazz cult group Hal Russell in 1991. He is currently a member of Cellular Chaos as well as Behold…The Arctopus. The Flying Luttenbachers featured many Chicago musicians, including Ken Vandermark and Jeb Bishop. They also included Fred Lonberg–Holm and Dylan Posa. Their uncompromising and mercurial music draws equally from no wave music, death metal music, free jazz, noise music and hardcore punk. Walter moved to San Francisco Bay Area in 2003. He formed the latest Luttenbachers lineup, and continued on percussion with Mike Green (Burmese) and Ed Rodriguez (ex–Colossamite Trio, Gorge Trio). In 2005, Mick Barr (Octis Orthrelm), a singular guitar artist, joined the group. In late 2007, the Flying Luttenbachers stopped operating. He is currently a member Burmese and has led various free jazz groups under his own name. Weasel Walter, a member of Burmese, announced on November 25, 2009 that he would be moving to New York City in order to join Behold… The Arctopus will be playing drums, and the Arctopus will be creating “new, more extreme material entirely from scratch.” [2] He has also formed Cellular Chaos (drummer Marc Edwards) and Ceci Moss since his return to New York. Before relocating to the West Coast, Walter was a major contributor to the Chicago no-wave/noise/improvised music underground during the ’90s and early 2000s. He was a founding member of many bands during this time, including The Flying Luttenbachers and Miss High Heel (with Jim O’Rourke, Azita of The Scissor Girls), Lake of Dracula with Marlon Magas, Heather M. of The Scissor Girls), To Live u0026 Shave in L.A. 2, the 7000 Dying Rats, and Hatewave (replacing Nandor Nevai), among others. Walter recently moved to New York City. Walter has worked with many artists including John Butcher and Marshall Allen, Mary Halvorson and Henry Kaiser, Damon Smith and Frank Gratkowski. He also collaborated with Ken Vandermark, Jim O’Rourke and Tom Smith in To Live and Shave In L.A. and Ken Vandermark. Cock E.S.P. Maple, Curse of the Birthmark and Mary Halvorson, along with other artists like John Butcher, Marshall Allen, Henry Kaiser, Damon Smith, Vinny Golia, Frank Gratkowski, William Winant, Marlon Magas, Jim O’Rourke, Tom Smith in To Live and Shave in L.A. and Ken Vandermark. He also produced albums for the Coachwhips and Total Shutdown as well as albums by the AIDS Wolf and Glen Branca, Burmese of Radar, Arab on Radar and AIDS Wolf and AIDS Wolf and Glenn Branca. Walter is also well-known in underground circles and filesharing websites for his bootleg “Revision” album series, which he remixes an existing recording and adds his own tracks. These include: David Wertman’s Kara Suite, Ornette Cole’s Body Meta, John Coltrane’s Interstellar Space, Cecil Taylor’s Cecil Taylor Unit, Roscoe Mitchel/Sunny Murray’s Wildflowers 5 and Marilyn Crispell’s A Concert In Berlin, Borbetomagus’ Zurich, The Music Improvisation Company, Cecil Taylor Indent, Masayuki Takaanagi/Kaoru Ume’s Mass Projection, Anthony Braxton’ Through, Oliver Lake’s Passin’ Through, Eugene Chadbourne/Polly Bradfield’s Torture Time, Peter Brotzmann
