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Bob Ostertag (2003)

Robert “Bob” Ostertag (born April 19, 1957 in Albuquerque ) is an improvising sound artist ( sampler , initially keyboards ) and composer who, according to Wolf Kampmann , “introduced the sampler as an instrument of equal standing in jazz ”.

Live and act

Ostertag, who has played guitar since his youth in Colorado and rehearsed his own compositions with a high school ensemble, studied from 1976 at the Oberlin Conservatory of Music . There he turned to the synthesizer and founded an improvisation ensemble with Ned Rothenberg and Jim Katzin. After performing in Europe with Anthony Braxton , he moved to New York City , where he quickly collaborated with John Zorn , Fred Frith , Zeena Parkins and other downtown avant-garde musicians. After his first, little-noticed albums, a few years of political activity, including in El Salvador , and a tour with Fred Frith's Keep the Dog , he caused a sensation in 1990 with Attention Span , where he took solos by Zorn and Frith apart and re-created a digital texture linked. In the album Sooner or Later he showed from the perspective of a fly how a boy in Nicaragua buried his father, a Sandinista . In 1992 he composed All the Rage for the Kronos Quartet (in collaboration with David Wojnarowicz , to whom he dedicated Burns Like Fire after his untimely AIDS- related death ). In 1993 he founded the quartet Say No More with Phil Minton , Mark Dresser and Gerry Hemingway , with whom he had real and virtual encounters interact. In 1999 he switched to the laptop , which allowed him to perform live solo improvisations.

As far as possible, Ostertag published his recordings in 2006 under a non-commercial Creative Commons license.

Ostertag is currently Professor of Technocultural Studies at the University of California, Davis .

Fonts

• Human Bodies, Computer Music. Leonardo Music Journal, Vol. 12, Pleasure, pp. 11–14, MIT, Cambridge / M 2002 [1]
• People's Movements, People's Press: The Journalism of Social Justice Movements . Beacon Press, 2006, ISBN 978-0-8070-6166-4
• Why Gay Marriage is the Wrong Issue. In: Huffington Post. December 21, 2008
• Gay Marriage, Part 2. In: Huffington Post. December 23, 2008
• Creative life: music, politics, peolpe, and machines. University of Illinois Press, Urbana and Chicago 2009, ISBN 978-0-252-07646-6
• Why I don't give away my music anymore. iRightsInfo, copyright and creative work in the digital world. March 25, 2013 [2]
• Sex science self: a social history of estrogen, testosterone, and identity. University of Massachusetts Press, Amherst 2016, ISBN 978-1-62534-213-3

Discographic notes

• Sooner or Later (1991)
• Fear No Love (with Mike Patton , Fred Frith , Justin Bond , Lynn Breedlove and others) (1995)
• PantyChrist (with Otomo Yoshihide and Justin Bond) (1999)
• Say No More Project CDs 1 & 2 (2002)
• Say No More Project CDs 3 & 4 (2002)

Solo improvisations

• Like a Melody, No Bitterness: Bob Ostertag Solo Volume 1 (1997)
• DJ of the Month: Bob Ostertag Solo Volume 2 (2003)

Lexical entries

• Wolf Kampmann (Ed.), With the assistance of Ekkehard Jost : Reclams Jazzlexikon . Reclam, Stuttgart 2003, ISBN 3-15-010528-5 .

Web links

• Web presence with discography and extensive possibility of downloading CC works
• Portrait , The Wire 2011
• Bob Ostertag at Allmusic (English)