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Getting A Head
''Getting a Head'' is the debut solo album of live Musical improvisation, improvised music by experimental sound artist Bob Ostertag. It features Ostertag playing a homemade real-time sound sourcing system with Fred Frith on guitar and Charles K. Noyes on percussion. The album was released on LP by Rift Records in 1980. It was later released on CD by Recommended Records, ReR Megacorp in 2000, and by Seeland Records in 2001. In a review of Ostertag's 2009 book, ''Creative Life: Music, Politics, People, and Machines'', Chris Gehman described ''Getting a Head'' as "wonderfully strange and inexplicable". The sound sourcing system used on ''Getting a Head'' comprised three Reel-to-reel audio tape recording, reel-to-reel tape recorders and four to six helium balloons to control the tape tension. It was conceived by Bryan Medwed and developed and deployed by Ostertag. Ostertag referred to this invention as "One of the first ... times that tape manipulation techniques developed by electro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bob Ostertag
Robert "Bob" Ostertag (born April 19, 1957) is an American musician, writer, and political activist based in San Francisco. He has published seven books, one feature film, a DVD, twenty-six albums, and collaborated with numerous musicians. Musically, he is known for his politically charged compositions created from found sound (''Sooner or Later'', ''All the Rage (Kronos Quartet/Bob Ostertag album), All the Rage''), his work with synthesizers over 45 years (from ''Bob Ostertag Plays the Serge 1978-1983'' to ''Wish You Were Here'' in 2016), and his many collaborations (Anthony Braxton, John Zorn, Fred Frith, Justin Vivian Bond, Shelley Hirsch, and Roscoe Mitchell to name just a few). In his writing, films, and podcasts, he has addressed LGBT issues, poverty, climate change, and technology, from a militant yet non-ideological perspective. On March 25, 2006, Ostertag made all of his recordings to which he owns the rights available as digital downloads under a Creative Commons Att ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |