2011-11-19
English Kills Gallery, NYC
9pm Nov. 19th, 114 Forrest St. Ground Floor, Brooklyn, NY 11206

Jim Sauter (Borbetomagus) - saxophones
Sandy Ewen - guitar, objects
Damon Smith - 7 string electric upright, laptop
Weasel Walter - percussion

Part of a live action by artist Peter Dobil at English Kills Gallery more info here: http://www.peterdobillactionist.com/ &

http://www.englishkillsartgallery.com/

Map & Subway:

http://maps.google.com/maps?q=114+Forrest+St+%231,+Brooklyn+NY,+11206&hl=en&sll=40.719024,-73.959452&sspn=0.016719,0.021007&vpsrc=0&hnear=114+Forrest+St,+Brooklyn,+Kings,+New+York+11206&t=m&z=17&source=gplus-ogsb

2011-10-26
Allways Lounge, New Orleans
WED. OCT. 26
Anxious Sound presents: Weasel Walter/Damon Smith/Donald Miller/Rob Cambre (quartet)
10pm
@the AllWays Lounge
2240 St.Claude Avenue, New Orelans, LA
http://theallwayslounge.net/the-lounge

2011-10-25
The Blue Nile, New Orleans
TUES OCT. 25
Open Ears Music Series presents:
Weasel Walter / Damon Smith / Donald Miller (trio)
Simon Berz / Simon Lott / Bruce Golden / Justin Peake
10pm
@the Blue Nile (upstairs) 532 Frenchmen Street, New Orleans, LA

2011-10-03
Avant Garden
Avant Garden 411 Westheimer 7 to 9pm

Monday, October 3
Quartet:
Annette Krebs (Berlin) - guitar
Chris Cogburn (Austin) - drums, percussion
Sandy Ewen (Houston) - guitar
Damon Smith (Houston) - double bass
with an opening set by
Ryan Edwards (Houston) - guitar, voice

2011-08-07
Super Happy Funland
8pm Aug 7th @ Super Happy Fun Land 3801 Polk Street, Houston TX 77003 (713)880-2100 $7

The Weird Weeds http://www.weirdweeds.com/

Weasel Walter Ensemble

Weasel Walter (drums), Seth Paynter (saxophones), David Dove (trombone), Thomas Helton (tuba), Sandy Ewen (guitar), Damon Smith (amplified double bass), Nick Hennies (vibraphone) http://nowave.pair.com/wea​sel_walter/

Lucas Gorham (Grandfather Child) solo guitar

http://www.superhappyfunla​nd.com/

2011-08-05
Skinny's Ballroom, Austin
8pm Aug 5th @ Skinny's Ballroom (115 San Jacinto) $5

Weasel Walter Quintet featuring: Weasel Walter (drums), Carl Smith (saxophone), Jonathan Horne (guitar), Sandy Ewen (guitar), Damon Smith (amplified double 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 and is a current member of Cellular Chaos and Behold...The Arctopus. Over the years, The Flying Luttenbachers included noted Chicago musicians such as Ken Vandermark, Jeb Bishop, Fred Lonberg-Holm, Dylan Posa, and Michael Colligan, 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." Since moving back to New York, he has also formed Cellular Chaos with Marc Edwards (drummer) and Ceci Moss.

The Weird Weeds http://www.weirdweeds.com/

The Plutonium Farmers http://blog.plutoniumfarme​rs.com/

2011-01-29
Fair Grinds Coffee House (upstairs), New Orleans
Anxious Sound presents:
DAMON SMITH (houston,TX) = bass
solo + with Bhob Rainey (soprano saxophone), Donald Miller (electric guitar), & Rob Cambre (electric guitar)
SAT. JANUARY 29, 2011
@Fair Grinds Coffee House (upstairs)
http://www.fairgrinds.com/
3133 Ponce de Leon
(Mid City/Faubourg St. John)
New Orleans, LA 70119
doors: 7:30 / showtime: 8pm

2011-01-28
No Idea Festival, Austin
No Idea Festival Austin Trio with, Sandy Ewen - guitar, Chris Cogburn - pecussion
More info: http://noideafestival.com/

2011-01-27
Flight Gallery, San Antonio
No Idea Festival, San Antonio
Duo with Thomas Helton - Double Bass
more info: http://noideafestival.com/

2011-01-13
Contemporary Arts Museum Houston
Damon Smith performs Ben Patterson's "Variations for Double Bass" followed by a trio with Sandy Ewen & Jerome Bryerton. 6:30pm, free.
Pre-Concert music: "Polishing" by George Brecht

2010-10-30
KTRU
Radio broacast on KTRU in Houston 6-7 pm central time

Sandy Ewen - prepared guitar

Damon Smith - 7 string electric upright bass, laptop

Listen live at http://ktru.org/

2010-09-24
Cy Twombly Pavillion, Menil Collection Houston
Bass duos with Thomas Helton in the Renzo Piano Desgined Cy Twombly Annex at the Menil Collection in Houston, TX

Premiering the graphic score: Six collages to Cy Twombly for two double basses

Performance Notes:

The primary concept behind these scores is simply to generate contemporary work out of great works from the past and to work across art forms with similar ideas. Which is very much in line with Twombly’s practice.

The collages contain a brass ensemble reduction of one of Twombly’s favorite works, Händel’s “Water Music”, referencing both classical double bassists often having to resort to transcriptions to engage with great music as well Twombly himself working from various translations of ancient texts to generate paintings. As well as poems from three of his favorite poets: Catullus, Rilke & Pessoa. They also contain plates from a small Braque book (who has a neighboring ceiling work to Twombly’s in the Louvre), as well as my own graphite lines (often “crossing out” notes or text), gouache marks & photos from the Mediterranean world and one from Oakland, California

Just as the graphite lines can be read as pure music, both the poems and written music can read as gestural or just as importantly any of the material can be read silently by the performers to create “active” silences between their own material. The pitches from Water Music could also be combined with the gestures of the graphic material.

The scores can be played in any order or any direction and can be used as self-contained compositions or as a framework for improvisational material.

Damon Smith 8/2010

2010-09-04
Tex Gallery, Denton TX
Lou Mallozzi - objects
Damon Smith - double bass

2010-08-22
inarium sound Series at Mekong Underground
Sunday Aug. 22nd 8pm. Binarium sound Series at Mekong Underground 2808 Milam st.

Double bass duo:

Thomas Helton/Damon Smith – double basses

2009-12-07
1510 8th st.
Monday, Dec 7 2009 8:00 PM Studio 1510 1510 8th Street Oakland $6-10

Set 1 Gianni Mimmo - saxophone Scott R. Looney - piano Gino Robair - percussion

Set 2 RECIPROCAL UNCLES (Italy) Gianni Mimmo - saxophones Gianni Lenoci - piano

Set 3 Gianni Mimmo - saxophones Gianni Lenoci - piano Damon Smith - double bass Kjell Nordeson, Gino Robair - percussion

http://www.amiranirecords.com/gianni.html http://www.amiranirecords.com/gianni_lenoci.html http://www.balancepointacoustics.com http://myspace.com/smithdamon http://www.myspace.com/damonsmithsolo

2009-11-08
21 Grand
Sunday, Nov 8 2009 8:00 PM 21 Grand 416 25th St @Broadway Near 19th Street BART Oakland $6-10

Hans Koch (CH) - reeds
Damon Smith - double bass
Kjell Nordeson (SE) - percussion

Hans Koch: 1948, Biel, Switzerland; bass clarinet, contrabass clarinet, soprano saxophone, tenor saxophone, electronics.

Having studied at the Conservatory in Biel and Zurich, Hans Koch began his musical career as a classical clarinetist, working from 1973 to 1980 at the Music College of Winterthur. In 1978, he met Martin Schütz, also at the Conservatory, and they formed a jazz trio at the beginning of the 1980s, finally settling with the drummer Marco Käppeli. Performances eventually led to a recording of the trio on ECM and then a second disc the following year (1988) on Sound Aspects. In 1985 he won the best soloist award at the Jazzfestival Lugano and in 1986 was awarded the "Kulturpreis from the city of Biel". During the same period, Koch was also a member of Werner Lüdi's Sunnymoon, along with Martin Schütz, Stephan Wittwer and Paul Lovens. In 1987 he undertook a 6-month residence in New York and played in a wide variety of situations: with Andrew Cyrille, Butch Morris, Shelley Hirsch and David Moss & many others. This resulted in regular performances at Willisau and Nickelsdorf and a recording for FMP of X-Communication (Morris, Hirsch, Schütz, Lovens, Hans Reichel, Jason Hwang and J.A. Dean). In 1988, Koch was a member of the Cecil Taylor European Orchestra, the recording of which was released in the much-prized In Berlin box set from FMP, as well as the ground breaking all reed trio Holz Fur Europa with Wolfgang Fuchs and Peter Van Bergan

Hans Koch's solo CD, Uluru was recorded in 1989 and at the end of 1991 CHOCKSHUT (a near anagram of Koch and Schütz) was recorded, a sextet that included Fredy Studer. This was the beginning of the trio "Koch-Schütz-Studer", though their first recording with the descriptive and provocative title of Hardcore chamber music was not recorded for another three years, by which time Koch was working with electronics as an extension of his reeds, as well as with sampling/sequencing. In the ten years that have followed, the trio has recorded frequently and collaborated with a wide variety of musicians: from Egypt, from Cuba, with DJs, and with poetry/spoken word.

2009-10-27
Zebulon, Brooklyn
Zebulon 258 Wythe Ave Brooklyn, NY 11211-3914 (718) 218-6934

10/27/2009 8:00 PM

Jack Wright - saxophone

Mike Pride - drums

Damon Smith - double bass

2009-10-25
Moonstone Arts Center, Philadelphia, PA
Lucky Old Souls Sunday, October 25, 2009 6:30pm - 11:00pm Moonstone Arts Center (aka Robin's Books) 110 S. 13th St., 2nd Floor Philadelphia, PA Lucky Old Souls and Dan Peterson present... a special Sunday dinner concert at Moonstone Arts Center with music from... TRUTH AND CONSEQUENCE TRIO Dan Peterson, reeds Matt Stein, bass Doug Hirlinger, drums JASON STEIN solo bass clarinet JACK WRIGHT Quartet Jack Wright, sax Jason Stein, bass clarinet Damon Smith, double bass Mike Szekely, drums

2009-10-23
Venue: Plays and Players Theater, Philadelphia
OVER-NITE SENSATION:

Autumn Edition

Venue: Plays and Players Theater, 3rd Floor 1714 Delancey Place

presented with Plays and Players

Friday, October 23, 8pm Damon Smith - solo double bass + many other short sets

2009-09-19
Heaven Gallery Chicago 1510 N. Mil
For the 2007 release Ausfegen (Balance Point Acoustics), this transcontinental quartet—bassist Damon Smith and guitarist Kristian Aspelin from the Bay Area and saxophonist Paul Hartsaw and drummer Jerome Bryerton from Chicago—set out to pay homage to German conceptual artist Joseph Beuys. But as Smith explains in the liner notes, they weren’t sure it was worthwhile to simply claim they were inspired by Beuys, so they decided to make the connection more explicit. For the art piece he called Ausfegen, Beuys swept Berlin’s Marx-Engels-Platz, then encased the broom and all the detritus he’d collected in a vitrine. On the album Ausfegen, the cuts have titles like “Garbage,” “Sand,” and “Paper,” and for one track Aspelin laid his guitar flat and played it with a broom. Of course that’s not to say the listener needs to know any of this to appreciate the group’s tensile and tactile free improvisation. The clanging and clattering commotion is daubed with terse, fluid phrases—a postbop gesture by Hartsaw, a rumbling arco flurry by Smith—and each player manipulates fast-flying extended technique in carefully calibrated communication. —Peter Margasak

2009-01-13
21 Grand
Two Sets with Legendary Bassist John Lindberg Tuesday Jan. 13th @ 21 Grand $6-10 416 25th St @Broadway Near 19th Street BART Oakland

Set 1: JazzHopRevolution Featuring John Lindberg & Rahman Jamaal

"The compelling ensemble dynamically creating a cross-genre marriage of jazz and hip-hop."

Playing selections from their recent album: Tha Sound of Truth (Planet Arts/LindyEditions)

Set 2: Vinny Golia reeds John Lindberg & Damon Smith Double basses Weasel Walter Drums

www.johnlindberg.com www.jazzhorevolution.com www.myspace.com/rahmanjamaal www.myspace.com/johnlindberg www.balancepointacoutics.com www.ninewinds.com http://nowave.pair.com/weasel_walter/ www.21grand.com

2008-06-10
21 Grand
Tuesday, Jun 10 2008 8:00 PM 21 Grand 416 25th St @Broadway Near 19th Street BART Oakland

John Butcher - soprano & tenor saxophones
Damon Smith - double bass, laptop
Weasel Walter - percussion

John Butcher (UK) is one of the most innovative and original saxophonists of any era. He is Joined at this concert of free improvised music by the prolific Oakland rhythm section Weasel Walter and Damon Smith.

http://www.johnbutcher.org.uk
http://nowave.pair.com/weasel_walter/
http://www.balancepointacoustics.com
http://myspace.com/smithdamon

2008-06-03
The Empty Bottle
Tuesday 06/03/08
9:00 PM
Empty Bottle Chicago, IL

Guillermo Gregorio - alto saxophone, clarinets
Damon Smith - double bass
Jerome Bryerton - percussion

2008-03-29
Westwerk
29-3-08, 9pm
Westwerk, Admiralitätstr.74, Hamburg
Lise-Lotte Norelius, live-electronics (Stockholm)
Damon Smith, double bass (Oakland, CA)
+ Nordzucker:
Birgit Ulher, trumpet
Lars Scherzberg, saxofon
Michael Maierhof, cellos

2008-03-23
Archiduc
March 23 Archiduc Brussels, Belgium 9pm.

Fred Van Hove - Piano
Peter Jacquemyn, Damon Smith - double basses
Changed from 5 to 9pm

2008-03-20
Blue Tomato
March, 20 2008 at ITCHYSCRATCHY AUDIODAZE
damon smith - bass, tom zlabinger - bass, andreas menrath - drums, hans falb - turntables, martin siewert - guitar, marco eneidi - alto saxophone Blue Tomato - Vienna

2008-03-13
HaTeiva
13-3-08, 8pm
HaTeiva, corner of Salame/Yerushalaim, Tel Aviv-Jaffa, Israel
Damon Smith - double bass
Birgit Ulher - trumpet
+
24Limbs Orchestra:
Ariel Shibolet - soprano sax
Yoni Silver - bass clarinet
Roni Brenner - guitar
Michel Mayer - guitar
Shmil Frenkle - doublebass
Ofer Bymel - drums

2008-03-08
Pyramida
8-3-08, 8pm
Pyramida, Madregot Miller 6, Haifa, Israel
Damon Smith - double bass
Birgit Ulher - trumpet
+
Tanaka:
Adi Snir - soprano & tenor sax, clarinet
Roni Brenner - guitar
Michel Mayer - guitar
Ofer Bymel - drums

2008-03-01
H7_Club für improvisierte Musik, Blinzelbar
1-3-08, 9 pm
H7_Club für improvisierte Musik, Blinzelbar
Gr. Bergstr.158, Hamburg

Liz Albee, trumpet, electronics (Oakland, CA)
Birgit Ulher, trumpet
Heiner Metzger, soundtable
Raed Yassin, electronics (Beirut)
Michael Maierhof, cello
Damon Smith, double bass (Oakland, CA)

2008-02-09
Hagada Hasmalit
14-3-08
Tel Aviv Improvised Music Meeting
Hagada Hasmalit, Echad Ha'am 70, Tel Aviv, Israel
with Tanaka, Ariel Shibolet, Damon Smith and Birgit Ulher amongst others