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
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^)
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
November 10 @ 119 Gallery Sawyer Wright Duo: Angela Sawyer – suitcase of audio delights; Walter Wright – electronics, drums, percussion with film by Martha Colburn.
November 11 @ 119 Gallery Ahern Wright Duo: Mitch Ahern – crutch; Walter Wright electronics, drums, percussion.
November 16 @ 119 Gallery Poetry Painting Music: Stephen Anstey, Peter Eliopoulos, Michael Hoerman, Joe Nardoni, Patrick Pierce with Jeffrey Lipsky, Rick Breault, Mike Funaiole and Walter Wright.
November 20 @ UnchARTed Gallery, Lowell GiBlEtS: Michael F Dailey Jr – drums; Mike Funaiole – analog synth; Gilbert Gandia – voice, electronics; Walter Wright – drums, percussion
with
Home Body, Speaker
November 24 @ Strange Maine, Portland ME Bats From Pogo: Andrea Pensado – laptop, voice; Walter Wright – electronics, drums, percussion
November 30 @ 119 Gallery GiBlEtS: Michael F Dailey Jr – drums; Mike Funaiole – analog synth; Walter Wright – drums, perscussion
with
KARL2K, High-speed Coeds, EAAE.
October 6 @ 119 Gallery
Dr T’s 70th Birthday Party
Michael Bloom, Joe Burgio, Dave Bryant, Lou Cohen, Eric Crawley, Michael F Dailey Jr, Kit Demos, Junko Fujiwara, Mike Funiole, Karen Langlie, Glynis Lomon, Andrea Pensado, Eric Rosenthal, Walter Wright
with
Gregory Kowalski, Dr T – live video
October 16 @ Weirdo Records, Cambridge MA One-Armed Mist: ARKM Foam – himself; Steve Norton – sopranino, electronics; Walter Wright – electronics
October 26 @ 119 Gallery (my 71st Birthday) Los Condenados: Steve Norton – sopranino; Andrea Pensado – laptop; Walter Wright – electronics
with
Crank Sturgeon, Nico Poisson, Chloe Bonnard, Id m Theftable, BIG & little, DJ DA, VJ Kowalski
October 31 @ Brian’s Ivy, Lowell MA BiRdOrGaN: Michael F Dailey Jr – drums, voice; Mike Funaiole – analog synth; Walter Wright – drums
