Bob Ostertag

Robert " Bob" Ostertag ( born April 19, 1957 in Albuquerque ) is an improvising sound artist (sampler, first keyboards) and composer, the Wolf Kampmann states that " introduced the sampler as an equal instrument in jazz " has.

Life and work

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

Published in 2006, Ostertag, as far as this was possible, his recordings under a non- commercial Creative Commons license.

Currently Ostertag is a professor of cultural studies techno at the University of California, Davis.

Writings

  • People's Movements, People's Press: The Journalism of Social Justice Movements. Beacon Press, 2006, ISBN 978-0-8070-6166-4

Disco Graphical Notes

  • Sooner or Later (1991 )
  • Fear No Love ( with Mike Patton, Fred Frith, Justin Bond, Lynn Breedlove and others) (1995 )
  • PantyChrist ( Otomo Yoshihide and Justin Bond with ) (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 Reclams Jazz Encyclopedia Stuttgart 2003, ISBN 3-15-010528-5
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