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ReGurgiTron "Quality noise from a name you can trust!"
It was then, as a humble student at Chamberlain High School in Tampa, Florida that I was asked to set up a PA in the school's gymnasium for an afternoon assembly. I carted the PA to the gym, set it up, and, as was customary, I began to "ring out" the system. That is, equalize the PA based on when the live mics would feedback, then back off - a process that can get loud. Well, I was getting some amazing feedback especially at the lower frequencies that filled the gym with a wall of shearing sound, shaking the seating and rattling any loose metal objects. I kept this up for about 20 minutes, assaulting the gym with squealing feedback and rumbling, shuddering tremors, with the natural reverberation of the room's wood floors, high celings, and concrete walls, only adding to the mayhem. To my amazement, the PE class teacher and students in there didn't seem to mind. They just went about their activities. I guess, that I looked like I knew what I was doing and must have actually had a reason for blasting the gym with feedback - for 20 minutes. I didn't.
1999 was the year that I officially launched ReGurgiTron on mp3.com. I actually made a few bucks from it before mp3.com collapsed (did ReGurgiTron have something to do with that?).
Now ReGurgiTron has it's own site and has released several CD-Rs including "Built to Glitch", "christmas CD", and "Don't Crap in my Pool and I Won't Shoot Your Dog", "sex and static", and plenty of mp3s on the net. Who knows what the future will hold?
real name: Michael Oster
occupation: when not working as ReGugiTron, I'm the owner/operator of F7 Sound and Vision providing professional sound services and marketing my custom sound effects and field recordings.
location: Tampa, Florida
status: fully operational
capabilities: dynamic synthesis and reorganization of sonic properties through a combination of organic and computer assisted means; breaking things.
technology applied: a wide assortment ranging from twigs, string, plastic and rocks to circuit bent toys and musical instruments to modern DSP silicone-based chips which were probably better off being liquefied and used in breast implants.
purpose: to scare the normal people.
A Musical Abortion!
It's not just music. It's not just a CD. It's ReGurgiTron. more... more...
For more information on Michael Oster, please visit his "credits" page on the F7 Sound and Vision web site
LaptopNoise.com - using laptops as part of a noise making setup. The site's focus is on software, controllers, computers, performances, and experimental artists.
All things ReGurgiTron are under the universally exclusive control of Michael I. Oster and F7 Sound and Vision
Copyright © 2006 Michael I. Oster, all Rights Reserved.
You can't fake this! But, if you could, would you really want to?
For comments and suggestions, e-mail: F7sound@gte.net
F7 Sound and Vision
17732 Nathan's Drive
Tampa, Florida 33647
813-991-4117