Bob Ostertag

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Full Name	Bob Ostertag
Occupation	Musician
Date Of Birth	Apr 19, 1957(1957-04-19)
Age	67
Country	United States
Birth City	Albuquerque
Horoscope	Aries

Bob Ostertag Biography

Bob Ostertag is one of the most popular and richest Musician who was born on April 19, 1957 in Albuquerque, United States. Robert “Bob” Ostertag (born April 19th 1957, in Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States) is an experimenter in sound as well as a political activist and writer who is based in San Francisco. He has published three books, worked with many musicians, and released 12 solo albums.

Ostertag returned to the music scene in 1989, touring in concert with Fred Frith’s Keep the Dog. He was also as a guest in Nicolas Humbert and Werner Penzel’s 1990 documentary film about Frith, Step Across the Border. Ostertag made Attention Span in 1990, with Frith on guitars as well as John Zorn on saxophone. Ostertag then followed Attention Span by releasing the album Of Sooner or Later, his musical response to his time living in El Salvador and the first part of a trilogy that address the issues of anger, grief and joy. The year 1992 was when The Kronos Quartet commissioned the creation of a new piece by Ostertag. The commission resulted in the iconic work , Bob Ostertag: All the Rage. Ostertag created the work using an audio recording of a protest against gay equality in San Francisco. Ostertag originally conceived Bob Ostertag: All the Rage as a collaboration with writer/painter/photographer/film maker David Wojnarowicz, but David was ill with AIDS. In the event that David passed away before the collaboration was even able to begin, Ostertag made a second solo piece from the songs of the riot, Burns Like Fire, and dedicated it to Wojnarowicz. in 1993, Ostertag was the founder of Say No More the virtual quartet that included singer Phil Minton, drummer Joey Baron and the bassist Mark Dresser, percussionist Gerry Hemingway. The group’s songs were created by an electronic instrument and a sampler, resulting from individual performances. It was later recorded under the name Say No More in 1993 and the live album – in Person from 1994. Then, Verbatim from 1996 as well as Verbatim Flesh & Blood In 2000.

On March 25, 2006, Ostertag made all of his recordings to which he owns the rights available as digital downloads under a Creative Commons Attribution- NonCommercial 2.5 license.

In 2007 Ostertag released his first download only recording w00t, a CD-length work composed of fragments of computer game music.

The following time, Ostertag moved in New York City in which he met John Zorn, Fred Frith, Zeena Parkins, and many other musicians who were keen on collaboration interplay. In the year 1980, Ostertag released Getting a Head together with the guitarist Fred Frith and drummer Charles Noyes. Ostertag’s use of sampling tape manipulation, and custom-made instruments produced a distinctive sound and style of the improvised genre of music. Following the release Getting a Head, Ostertag became the first in generations of artists to get their music performed by The Kitchen, at the time, the most prestigious concert venue for the latest music.

Bob Ostertag Net Worth

Bob Ostertag is one of the richest Musician from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Bob Ostertag 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Born within Colorado, Ostertag studied at the Oberlin Conservatory of Music. He graduated in 1976 and started the improvisation group Fall Mountain with Ned Rothenberg on reeds as well as Jim Katzin on violin, himself on the electronic keyboard. The group was released Early Fall in 1979.

His sudden success brought an increase in his participation in the political arena, particularly in the turbulent revolutions as well as counter- revolutions in South America in the 1980s. To address the current political situation, Ostertag released Voice of America. In the course of time, Ostertag became more involved in these politics, and also dissatisfied with his music business He relocated into El Salvador in 1982 and for the next seven years, he stopped performing entirely. The experiences he had of El Salvador were later synthesized into the piece Sooner or Later.

In 1999, after 10 years working with the same Ensoniq ASR-10 sampler, Ostertag switched to a laptop computer and began writing his own audio performance software through Max/MSP. This allows him use various controllers, including joysticks, game pads, and drawing tablets in his performances. This same year, Ostertag released Like A Melody, No Bitterness his first CD of solo improvisation. This CD is a tribute to his sampler that he spent the last decade mastering as an instrument. Ostertag has also scored multimedia pieces such as Spiral in 1996. In 2000, Ostertag began work with Pierre Hébert and Baltazar López on a full-scale multi-media and theater work, Between Science and Garbage, commissioned by Meet the Composer and the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco.

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Three years later he published a collection of essays on music, politics, and technology, “Creative Life: Music, Politics, People, and Machines”. In 2012 he co-authored “Raising Expectations (And Raising Hell), My Decade Fighting for the Labor Movement” with Jane McAlevey. The book was named “the most valuable book of 2012” by The Nation magazine.

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Bob Ranked on the list of most popular Musician. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United States. Bob Ostertag celebrates birthday on April 19 of every year.

Ostertag’s first book was the anonymously published “The Yes Men: The True Story of the End of the World Trade Organization (2004)”. In 2006 he published a history of radical journalism in the US, “People’s Movements, People’s Press: The Journalism of Social Justice Movements”.