BIOGRAPHY
Peter Valsamis is a Los Angeles-based drummer/percussionist/composer/sound designer. His unique approach to drumming synthesizes a variety of musical styles into his own unique sound. He has performed with Trance Mission, Emeline Michel, Martine St. Clair, Mitsou, Cecil Taylor, Don Preston, Walter Aziz, Dana Reason, Steve Lacy, and many others. Peter is also an accomplished composer and sound designer, working on titles such as Transformers, Star Trek, Battleship, The Price is Right, Jeopardy, and Wheel of Fortune. Peter received his M.F.A. in Electronic Music and Recording Media from Mills College.
DISCOGRAPHY
Stir, Yves Charuest, Agusti Fernandez, Nicolas Caloia, Peter Valsamis (tour de bras) 2017
Reasoning, Dana Reason 2014
Angle of Vision, Dana Reason (482 Music) 2013
Pure Jam, John Acer 2011
Pictures of Tuva, Chirgilchin (Pure Nature Music) 2008
Two Rooms Of Uranium Inside 83 markers, MOE! Staiano's MOE!KESTRA! (Edgetone Records) 2007
An Inescapable Siren Within Earshot Distance Therein And Other Whereabouts, MOE! Staiano's MOE!KESTRA! (Amanita, Rastascan Records) 2006
Tourrorists!, Porest (Abduction Records) 2006
Akitu, Walter Aziz (East Jam) 2006
Live, Sound on Survival (Henceforth) 2005
ImagiNation Club, Eda Maxym (Family Tree) 2005
American Roadwork, Sound on Survival (Lisle Ellis, Marco Eneidi, Peter Valsamis) - (CIMP) 2004
Amalgam(e), Compilation, (Red Toucan Records) 2004
Around About Now, Jack West and Curvature (Ahead Behind Music) 2003
this is, or-if-is (h-machine) 2003
Two forms of Multitudes, MOE! Staiano's MOE!KESTRA! (DKM, pax, Edgetone) 2003
In My Heart, Win Marcinak, 2003
here, Trance Mission (independent) 2002
Oil and Water, Stephen Kent (Intuition) 2002
Configurations 2002, Jim Ryan's Forward Energy (Edgetone Records) 2002
Talking Drum, Chris Brown (Sonore) 2001
ThreeFor, Rick Starbuck 2001
Away, Walter Aziz (East Jam Records) 2001
SoundScrolls, S. Eric Scribner (KL5 Records) 2001
Moving Into Love, Win Marcinak (Burning Tyger Music) 2001
The Lateness of Yearly Presentations, MOE! Staiano (DKM, Amanita) 2001
Sonya D, Sonya D, 2001
Please Come Down, James Combs (Ubiquity) 2001
Che, Tommy Chavez 2000
A Day Out Of Time, Trance Mission (City of Tribes) 1999
As We Know It, Jack West and Curvature (Ahead Behind Music) 1999
Busy Thoughts, Peter Valsamis 1999
Sound Box 2.0, Compilation (Kiasma) 1999
Tracks, Mick Diener 1998
Chronic Bliss, Mitch Tobias 1998
PEERING OVER, Tom Nunn's edgewalker experimental instruments consort (Ramp Records) 1998
subrealto protoplasto, Sean Paul Zitello (eiei/o media) 1998
Whose forest?, NOMA (Hornblower recordings) 1998
Change, Walter Aziz (W/A) 1998
Audio Alchemy 2, Square (with Paul Scriver) (Ubiquity) 1997
Border Crossings, Dana Reason Peter Valsamis duo (Red Toucan) 1997
The Event Horizon,Trance Mission (city of tribes) 1997
Live at the Yellow Room, Forward Energy (jimzeen productions) 1997
Remix Project, Better Daze (Ubiquity) 1997
Bouzouki Party Pack Vol. 1 (independent) 1996
Word Up, Compilation (Virgin music) 1995
Kumbaya Album Nineteen Ninety Four, Compilation (Sony Music) 1994
Blue History, John Sobol Poetry Band (Word of Mouth) 1991
Climbing the Waltz, NOMA (Contextural Music) 1991