May 1 @ 119 Gallery Grau Garten: Marc Bisson – guitar, objects; deiX – voice, electronics; Gregory Kowalski – live video; Steve Norton – reeds, percussion, celesta; Walter Wright – drums, electronics
with
Charles Blondy Cosseron Trio
May 3 @ 119 Gallery Moonlighting: Rick Breault – poet, found sound, laptop; Joe Burgio – movement; Michael F Dailey Jr – drums, voice, mayhem; Peter Eliopoilos – poet; Mike Fun – analog synth; Paul Kafka Gibbons – movement; Christos Koulendros – electronics; Mystic Out-Bop Review – band of inlaws; i’d m Theftable – himself; Walter Wright – drums, electronics, video
May 8 @ Aviary, Jamaica Plain MA One-Armed Mist: ARKM Foam – tape decks, objects; Walter Wright – drums, electronics
with
Tooms
May 10 @ 186 Carpenter, Providence RI Apocalypso: Joe Burgio – movement; Shayna Dulberger – upright bass, electronics; Chris Welcome – guitar, electronics; Walter Wright – electronics
with
KidVid aka Arvid Tomayko, Telesthesia, Phemale
May 11 @ Opensound, Somerville MA Apocalypso: Joe Burgio – movement; Shayna Dulberger – upright bass, electronics; Chris Welcome – guitar, electronics; Walter Wright – electronics
with
Auddity, Glynis Lomon, Jack Wright
May 11 @ Sonorium, Salem MA Apocalypso: Joe Burgio – movement; Shayna Dulberger – upright bass, electronics; Chris Welcome – guitar, electronics; Walter Wright – electronics
with
Kit Demos, Kevin Frenette, John McLellan, Wisteriax, Jack Wright
May 16 @ Cheap Seats 6, Cambridge MA
Unfortunately unable to get a ride, I missed this one.
May 23 @ 119 Gallery BiRdOrGaN: Marc Bisson – guitar; deiX – voice; Steve Norton – reeds, electronics, percussion, Honeytone; Walter Wright – electronics, Honeytone
with
Laurie Amat, Reed Altemus and Josh Ronson
May 24 @ ???, Laconia NH BiRdOrGaN: Marc Bisson – guitar; deiX – voice; Steve Norton – reeds, electronics, percussion, Honeytone; Walter Wright – electronics, Honeytone
with
Reed Altemus and Josh Ronson
May 27 @ 119 Gallery Memorial Day Potluck BBQ, more info soon 8^)
April 6 @ International Noise Festival, Whitehaus Family Record Los Condenados: Andrea Pensado – laptop, voice; Jules Vasylenko – bamboozle; Walter Wright – electronics
with
Rawlings Foam Duo, Morgan Evans-Weiler, Alexander Nemser, LSDV, Cave Bears, Mountainshark, Marc Bisson, Collins Lizcano Rosenstein Trio, Radioactive Prostitute, Arevhat, Truck Stanley’s Nite Dreams, Christopher Strunk, Vehement Caress, Corpuscle, gdg, id m theft able, Preggy Peggy and The Lazy Babymakers, Crank Sturgeon, Rat Bastard
April 12 @ 119 Gallery BiRdOrGaN: Marc Bisson – guitar; deiX – voice, electronics; Mike Fun – analog synth; Michael F Dailey Jr – voice, drums; Walter Wright – drums, percussion
with
Empty Phrases, Inspector 34, Nashoba
April 13 @ 119 Gallery Flash Gordon’s Ape: Marc Bisson – guitar, objects; Walter Wright – drums, electronics
with
Comoros, Crank Sturgeon, Human Adult Band, ParrhesiA, Chill City Icon
April 20 @ Strange Maine Holliday Demos Wright Trio: Alonzo Holliday – wind controller, electronics; Kit Demos – upright bass; Walter Wright – drums, electronics
with
ARKM Foam, Glochids, Tempera
April 27 @ floft Walter Wright – little bits of electronics
with
Viktor Lois & Yin Peet, David Kontak, Loren Gronenendaal, Matt Murphy, Angela Sawyer, John Baylies, Josh Jefferson, Jules Vasylenko, Vanessa Lafevre, Vela Phelan, flandrew fleisenberg
March 8 @ 119 Gallery Bats From Pogo: Andrea Pensado – laptop, voice; Walter Wright – electronics
with Doll Fight!, Los Bungalitos and Crinkle Face
March 9 Opensound @ Third Life Yoga, Somerville MA Los Condenados: Andrea Pensado – laptop, voice; Jules Vasylenko – bamboozle; Walter Wright – electronics
with Foam Rawlings Duo, Babies of Brazzer and Shea Mowat
March 15 @ 119 Gallery
Mark Soden – trumpet, electronics; Joe Brown – electronics, Vanessa Lafevre – bass kalimba, Michael F Dailey Jr – drums; Walter Wright – drums
with Phog Masheeen and BiRdOrGaN
March 18 Bear Cages @ Franklin Park Zoo, Boston MA Bats From Pogo: Andrea Pensado – objects, voice; Walter Wright – toy drumset
with lots of other people …
March 19 Whitehaus Family Record, Jamaica Plain MA
Workshop with ARKM Foam and Walter Wright
March 21 Blast Fest 6 @ Cambridge YMCA, Cambridge MA Bats From Pogo: Andrea Pensado – laptop, voice; Walter Wright – electronics
with lots of other people …
March 23 @ 119 Gallery Demos Wright Duo: Kit Demos – electronics, bass; Walter Wright – electronics, drums
with Evans Grollman Haas Trio, mysterybear, Ricochet
March 27 @ UnchARTed, Lowell MA Los Condenados: Andrea Pensado – laptop, voice; Jules Vasylenko – bamboozle, saxobone; Walter Wright – drums, electronics
+ Dailey Wright Duo: Michael F Dailey Jr and Walter Wright – drums featuring Uncle Pat – drums
with Sult
March 29 @ 119 Gallery Los Condenados: Andrea Pensado – laptop, voice; Jules Vasylenko – bamboozle, saxobone; Walter Wright – electronics
with Big Plastic Finger, Guerilla Toss, Valerie Kuehne, Esther Neff, Big Mess, and BiRdOrGaN
March 30 @ Firehouse, Worcester MA Los Condenados: Andrea Pensado – laptop, voice; Jules Vasylenko – bamboozle, saxobone; Walter Wright – electronics
with Creaturos, Gay Shapes. Thee Open Sex, Frank Hurricane
February 8 @ 119 Gallery Solos, duets and other configurations featuring
CJ Boyd – electric bass guitar and Jessica Pavone – violin
with Kit Demos – upright bass, electronics; Luther Gray – drums, percussion; Steve Norton – reeds, celesta, electronics; Walter Wright – electronics, drums
February 16 Opensound @ Third Life Yoga, Somerville MA bodydrama: Joe Burgio – movement with Lou Cohen – laptop; Forbes Graham – trumpet; Steve Norton – reeds, electronics; Andrea Pensado – laptop, zither; Matt Samolis – flute
Live movement & soundtrack for the film Fall of the House of Usher [1928]
February 21 FleXFest @ floft, Boston MA
flandrew’s pre XFest party with Walter Wright – electronics with many more.
February 23 XFest 2013 @ UnchARTed, Lowell MA XFest 2013 Jazz & Poetry Disembodied Poetics: Rick Breault – laptop; Stephanie Lak – voice, electronics; Walter Wright – drums
with local poets Stephen Anstey and Michael Hoerman
+ Apocalypso: Joe Burgio – movement; Shayna Dulberger – upright bass, electronics; Chris Welcome – guitar; Walter Wright – electronics
February 24 XFest 2013 @ Lowell Telecommunications Corp, Lowell MA XFest 2013 Local Bands One-Armed Mist: Steve Norton – reeds; Stephanie Lak – voice, electronics; Walter Wright – electronics
February 28 @ floft, Boston MA
Katt Hernandez – violin with Joe Burgio – movement; fleisenberg – drums; Steve Norton – reeds; Andrea Pensado – laptop, voice
January 4 @ 119 Gallery Bats From Pogo: Andrea Pensado – voice, laptop; Walter Wright – electronics, drums with deiX – voice, electronics and TJ Borden Trio, mysterybear, TRIODE Bats From Pogo miniTour
January 5 @ Red Room, Baltimore MD Bats From Pogo: Andrea Pensado – voice, laptop; Walter Wright – electronics, drums
with Scintilla Bats From Pogo miniTour
January 6 @ Temple U, Philadelphia PA Dance/Music Improv Sessions Eun Jung Choi – movement; Asimina Cremos – movement; Andrea Pensado – voice, piano; Jack Wright – sax, objects; Walter Wright – percussion and others Bats From Pogo miniTour
January 6 @ Rotunda, Philadelphia PA Bats From Pogo: Andrea Pensado – voice, laptop; Walter Wright – electronics, drums
with Bob Bennett, Scintilla Bats From Pogo miniTour
January 12 @ 119 Gallery Grau Garten: Marc Bisson – guitar; deiX – voice, electronics; Gregory Kowalski – live video; Steve Norton – reeds, percussion, electronics; Walter Wright – electronics, drums
with Chait Emmons Duo, 2Lous, Dim Sum Cocktail Jazz, and Arrington de Dionyso.
January 19 @ One Armed Crow Gallery, North Adams MA Tough Day Tubing: Crank Sturgeon – violin, tupperware guitar, contact mics; Al Margolis – violin, clarinet, recorder, objects; Walter Wright – electronics
with Human!
January 26 @ 119 Gallery Bats From Pogo: Andrea Pensado – voice, laptop; Walter Wright – electronics, drums; Michael F Dailey Jr – skins, plaid pants
with Koulendros Murphree Duo, mysterybear, Farm Hands [Farm Hands' Cassette Tape Release Party]
Bats From Pogo: Andrea Pensado – voice, laptop Walter Wright – electronics, drums
“Bewitched, Bothered and Bemildred: a trio of grubby, unshaven bats—hobos, gamblers, good-natured but innocent of any temptation to honesty. They admit nothing. Soon after arriving in the swamp they are recruited by Deacon Mushrat into the “Audible Boy Bird Watchers Society,” (a seemingly innocent play on the Audubon Society, but really a front for Mole’s covert surveillance syndicate.) They wear identical black derbies and perpetual 5 o’clock shadows. Their names, a play on the song title Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered, are rarely mentioned. Often even they cannot say for sure which brother is which. They tell each other apart, if at all, by the patterns of their trousers — striped, checkered or plaid. (According to one of the bats, “Whichever pair of trousers you puts on in the morning, that’s who you are for that partic’lar day.”)”
~ Wikipedia, Pogo (comic strip)
Jan 4 @ 119 Gallery, Lowell MA with TJ Borden, mysterybear, TRIODE
Jan 5 @ The Red Room, Baltimore MD with Scintilla
Jan 6 @ Tufts U, Philadelphia PA with Eun Jung Choe, Asimina Cremos, Jack Wright, and more
jan 6 @ The Rotunda, Philadelphia PA with Bob Bennett, Scintilla
Friday January 4 119 Gallery, Lowell MA
This is the first night of our micro (smaller than a mini) tour. The first event of the new year includes -
TJ Borden Trio: [Buffalo NY] TJ Borden – amplified cello; Pat Cain – sax, vocals, electronics; Martin Freeman – guitar, electronics
+ mysterybear aka Dave Seidel – solo electronics [Peterborough NH]
+ TRIODE: [Jamaica Plain MA] Stephen Bonner – analog synth; Jesse Cousineau – analog synth; Peter Gamaskas – analog synth
+ Bats From Pogo with deiX – voice, electronics, no pants
The next morning we get up early, breakfast at the Owl Diner, drive to Baltimore. We arrive early, hang out at Normals Bookstore.
January 5 @ The Red Room, Baltimore MD
Andrew Bernstein and Jeff Carey appear around 6pm. Bob Falesch and Jack Wright pull in. We set up. Andrea, Jack and I tune up. Jeff hears us from the store, turns on record - Live recording 01, @ Red Room, warm up with Jack.
Scintilla: [Easton PA, Ogdenburg NY] Bob Falesch – electronics; Jack Wright – sax
+ Bats From Pogo
January 6 @ Temple U, Philadelphia PA
Up early next morning. We participate in an improv session at Temple U with Eun Jung Choi, Asimina Cremos, Jack Wright and others. We go shopping, then everyone decides to take nap. We wake up late, hop in the Jack’s car and head to University Town.
January 6 @ The Rotunda, Philadelphia PA
That evening we play at the Rotunda with Bob Bennett and Scintilla. Jack and Bob play first, then Bob, then Bats From Pogo. We end the evening with a 5tet, all of us, together.
These recordings sound really, really good, thanks Jack. I thought the sound would be less than ideal in the room, a big cavernous space ready to swallow up the sound but it doesn’t sound like that at all.
A couple of days after the concert Jack wrote, “I’ve been listening to and transferring the DAT I made of the Rotunda concert, of which I now have the second-half tape, and it is superb, musically and sonically. The first tape was unsatisfactory for me, the duo of myself and Bob, in which the balance was poor, or at least my distance from the mike was too evident; and Ben’s solo, which was poorly recorded due to his distance from the mikes, and often very quiet. But the Walter-Andrea duo is crystal clear and the tracks well separated for better mixing. And the 5tet really knocked me out: 30 minutes of what sounds like good balance (though I can’t tell the electronics apart), with the exception that Ben is often lost in the mix, until things quiet down a bit. I was satisfied with my own level, where I was often buried (I seem to have some kind of psychological need to be buried but still audible!) but coming through like a descant above the fray, or a subterranean animal growling from below.
“I hear this as something I’ve been working towards over the years, a large (and expandable) group, in the direction of an orchestra, that mixes electronics and acoustics. That was my weekend Nonet project, which ended because I was never satisfied on the musical level, and participants I wanted were hard to come by. To our quintet I would add Carol Genetti, vocalist from Chicago who usually plays in a quieter setting (though recently in Chicago we had a quintet that got almost as raucous as ours). And I would, if he wants, add some amplification for Ben that would be under his control so that he could have a boost when he wanted. And perhaps a bass.”
So perhaps we will all be back together soon, watch out 8^)
December 8 @ HoGO, Manchester NH Grau Garten: Marc Bisson – guitar; deiX – voice, electronics; Gregory Kowalski – live video; Steve Norton – reeds, electronics; Walter Wright – toy drums, electronics
December 14 @ Spectrum, New York NY
The Last Super Coda of the Year Apocalypso: Shayna Dulberger – upright bass, electronics; Chris Welcome – guitar; Walter Wright – electronics with Joe Burgio – movement
We are the “house band”
with Michael Hafftka, Valerie Kuehne, Brian Questa, Johnny Reinhard, Michael Vincent Waller. Produced by Valerie.
December 15 @ Opensound, Somerville Grau Garten: Marc Bisson – guitar; deiX – vocals, electronics; Gregory Kowalski – video; Steve Norton – reeds, electronics; Walter Wright – toy drums, electronics
with Ellen Band, Jorrit Dijkstra, Jeremy Flower, Junko Fujiwara, Eric Hofbauer, Andrew Neumann, Eric Rosenthal. Produced by Lou Bunk and Lou Cohen
December 21 @ The Spotty Dog, Hudson NY Margolis Wright Duo: Al Margolis – electronics, objects; Walter Wright – electronics, drums
December 28 @ 119 Gallery Lak Wright Duo: Stephanie Lak – voice, electronics; Walter Wright – electronics, drums
Steph is here from San Francisco, lot’s more people will play including Rick Breault; Joe Brown; Olivia Close; deiX, Vanessa Lefevre; Steve Norton; Andrea Pensado; Jess Schumann; Corey Sciuto.
December 31 @ 119 Gallery Nude Ears Eve with Crank Sturgeon & friends
Crank Sturgeon presents a panoply of tomfoolery, his friends including – Id m Theft Able; Bats From Pogo; BiRdOrGaN; Chili in the Yard; Wei Zhongle
Grau Garten:
Marc Bisson – guitar, objects
deiX – voice, electronics
Gregory Kowalski – video, voice processing
Steve Norton – reeds, electronics, toy piano
with
Walter Wright – electronics, toy drums
