History
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. During this period, he performed as a founding member of bands such as The Flying Luttenbachers, Miss High Heel (with Jim O'Rourke and Azita of The Scissor Girls), Lake of Dracula (with Marlon Magas and Heather M. of the Scissor Girls), To Live and Shave in L.A. 2, 7000 Dying Rats and Hatewave (replacing founder Nandor Nevai) among others. Walter has most recently relocated to New York City.
Walter has collaborated with artists like Evan Parker, John Butcher, Marshall Allen, Peter Evans, Mary Halvorson, Henry Kaiser, Damon Smith, Vinny Golia, Joe Morris, Frank Gratkowski, William Winant, Marlon Magas, Jim O'Rourke, Tom Smith in To Live and Shave in L.A., and Ken Vandermark as well as many influential underground rock bands including Lair of the Minotaur, Bobby Conn, U.S. Maple, Cock E.S.P., Curse of the Birthmark, the Scissor Girls, Erase Errata, The Chicago Sound, Harry Pussy, Quintron, Sharon Cheslow, and Cheer-Accident, in addition to producing albums by the Coachwhips, Burmese, Total Shutdown, Arab on Radar, AIDS Wolf, and Glenn Branca.
Walter is also known in underground circles and filesharing sites for his series of bootleg "Revision" albums, wherein he takes an existing recording of another artists and adds his own tracks. These include: David Wertman's Kara Suite, Ornette Coleman's Body Meta, John Coltrane's Interstellar Space, Cecil Taylor's Cecil Taylor Unit, Roscoe Mitchell/Sunny Murray's Wildflowers 5, Derek Bailey's Solo Guitar Volume One, Marilyn Crispell's A Concert In Berlin, Borbetomagus' Zurich, The Music Improvisation Company, Cecil Taylor Indent, Masayuki Takayanagi/Kaoru Abe's Mass Projection, Steve Lacy/Maarten Altena's High, Low and Order, Anthony Braxton/John Lindberg's Six Duets, Oliver Lake's Passin' Through, Eugene Chadbourne/Polly Bradfield's Torture Time, Peter Brotzmann & Bill Laswell's Lowlife, Frank Lowe's Black Beings, Derek Bailey & Evan Parker's The London Concert, Ornette Coleman's Skies Of America, Keiji Haino's - I Said, This Is The Son Of Nihilism; and 17 more titles.
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