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Favoriting April 19, 2021: Bob Ostertag, musician and author, "Facebooking the Anthropocene in Raja Ampat"

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Tonight: Bob Ostertag, musician and author, "Facebooking the Anthropocene in Raja Ampat: Technics and Civilization in the 21st Century"

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Facebooking the Anthropocene in Raja Ampat: Technics and Civilization in the 21st Century, by Bob Ostertag, published by PM Press. (Use coupon code ANTHROPOCENE for 20% off.) Listeners in the UK: Use this UK link for the ebook.

Bob Ostertag's author bio on the PM Press website

bobostertag.com, Bob's website: "Composer, performer, historian, instrument builder, journalist, activist, kayak instructor, Bob Ostertag’s work cannot easily be summarized or pigeon-holed. He has published a feature film, seven books, more than twenty CDs of music, and one DVD, and was an original member of the media guerrilla group The Yes Men. His radically diverse collaborators include the Kronos Quartet, postmodernist John Zorn, heavy metal star Mike Patton, transgender cabaret start Justin Vivian Bond, British guitar innovator Fred Frith, Quebecois film maker Pierre Hébert, EDM star Rrose, and many others."

Bob Ostertag on Bandcamp

What's Been Done and What's Been Won, Bob's podcast, with cohost Maureen Taylor

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  Bob Ostertag discusses his new book "Facebooking the Anthropocene in Raja Ampat."
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Bob Ostertag  w00t   Favoriting w00t  A collage of computer game sound and image, composed entirely from fragments of music from computer games. (See more) 
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Bob Ostertag  Machine State, No. 1   Favoriting Bob Ostertag Plays the Aalto   
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Listener comments!

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ultradamno:

Mark! Techtonobalists!
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Ken From Hyde Park:

Hello, Mark and Techtodactyls!
  6:01pm
David in London:

Evening Technoids. Salutations Mr Hurst.
Avatar 🤖 Swag For Life Member 6:03pm
tim from champaign (now washington):

Mark! I'm so relieved you're alive! I convinced myself that Station Manager Ken kidnapped you to try to completed a transplant of his head to your body or visa versa. Welcome back!
Avatar 🤖 Swag For Life Member 6:03pm
Bas NL:

Mark! Techtonopocenes!
Avatar 🤖 Swag For Life Member 6:03pm
Handy Haversack:

Mark and the Techyon Drives!

Shoot, I gotta pour the Techgin ASAP.

I'll go on the record now as being on the team that preferrsthe "Capitalocene" so as to specify precisely who is responsible for the planetary changes and make it clear that it was not done in the name of or with the consent of the species.

But all that aside, looking forward to the show as the one person in every crowd who never has a cell phone, let alone a smartphone!
Avatar 🤖 Swag For Life Member 6:04pm
DjLorraine:

YES
  6:04pm
headcleaner:

your jingle makes me so happy, mark... and now we're getting the extended remix!
Avatar 🤖 Swag For Life Member 6:05pm
DjLorraine:

The Yes Men, omg
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:06pm
Rich in Washington:

The theme feels like someone pouring coffee directly into my brain-hole. YAY!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:06pm
chresti:

Hi Mark and Bob and techtonians!
Avatar 🤖 Swag For Life Member 6:06pm
ultradamno:

Maybe the transplant procedure is ongoing.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:06pm
melinda:

Is anyone else having problems with the pop-up player?
Avatar 🤖 Swag For Life Member 6:06pm
Ken From Hyde Park:

Mark needs a couple minutes to get his head on straight.
Avatar 🤖 Swag For Life Member 6:06pm
tim from champaign (now washington):

Hi Mark, I'm not hearing you on the mic.
Avatar 🤖 Swag For Life Member 6:07pm
Webhamster Henry:

Uh oh Facebook, Google, Twitter, Amazon et all have cancelled Mark!
  6:07pm
hoeg:

and technotarians...
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:07pm
Rand al'Thor:

An intro so good they played it twice.
Evening, all!
Avatar 🤖 Swag For Life Member 6:07pm
tim from champaign (now washington):

Oh no! Maybe my fears have come true about Mark and the head transplant!
Avatar 🤖 Swag For Life Member 6:07pm
Webhamster Henry:

Or: MARK YOU'RE ON MUTE! <tm Zoom>
Avatar 🤖 Swag For Life Member 6:08pm
Handy Haversack:

Tim, no proof yet!
Avatar 🤖 Swag For Life Member 6:08pm
Bas NL:

MARK!
Avatar 🤖 Swag For Life Member 6:09pm
-Ken:

Mark can speak when I plug the RCA cord into his tray
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:09pm
mndave:

Mark, it's the sand-colored button on the right of the CompuRhythm CR-68. you got this!
Avatar 🤖 Swag For Life Member 6:09pm
Webhamster Henry:

Or, just push Bossa Nova, it rocks.
Avatar 🤖 Swag For Life Member 6:09pm
ultradamno:

This is such a conceptual episode
Avatar 🤖 Swag For Life Member 6:10pm
Ken From Hyde Park:

This is Mark or AI Mark? How can we tell?
Avatar 🤖 Swag For Life Member 6:10pm
Handy Haversack:

AI deepfake Mark Hurst?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:11pm
Mark Hurst:

Sorry, everyone! I just wanted to share my theme song with you for a few extra minutes this evening.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:12pm
Rich in Washington:

Now I'm picturing Mark with a tray and an RCA port somewhere on him.
Avatar 🤖 Swag For Life Member 6:13pm
PaulRobeson1920:

Good evening ya’ll!
Avatar 🤖 Swag For Life Member 6:14pm
Wendy del Formaggio:

Hello, friends!
  6:15pm
David in London:

When I saw Kate Bush a few years back, at the start she asked the audience very pointedly not to use their phones during the show. Amazingly pretty much everyone did. It was glorious.
  6:16pm
headcleaner:

speaking of being in the moment... in this past Saturday's Serious Moonlight Sonatas w/ Carol, her "meditations" (quotes and snippets she sometimes plays over certain tracks) focused on exactly this theme -- what it means to "be in the moment" and how that has changed over time: https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/103045
Avatar 🤖 Swag For Life Member 6:16pm
ultradamno:

Neko Case has been known to be impatient with phone wavers www.citybeat.com...
Avatar 🤖 Swag For Life Member 6:17pm
Bas NL:

Titanic sinking! tinyurl.com...
Avatar 6:18pm
Carmichael:

This is Mark's head. Not to be confused with Mark's body.
Avatar 🤖 Swag For Life Member 6:18pm
Webhamster Henry:

Some of the software emulations are fantastic!
Avatar 🤖 Swag For Life Member 6:18pm
Folsom:

@david I can't believe someone going to a Kate Bush show and bothering with the phone, it's not like she had a lot of shows
  6:20pm
Robm:

Guys did anyone else notice the stream dropping for a couple of seconds?
Avatar 🤖 Swag For Life Member 6:24pm
tim from champaign (now washington):

Wow, very interesting about Lonely Plant. Not that I have the means to travel to a remote place and fuck up someone else's existence, but I will keep that in mind when I do travel. This is like introducing coca cola to indigenous cultures.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:24pm
Mark Hurst:

@Carmichael true - the RCA port from Ken worked well
Avatar 🤖 Swag For Life Member 6:25pm
ultradamno:

If they could work in an identity stealing component into indoor plumbing then it might catch up.
Avatar 🤖 Swag For Life Member 6:26pm
PaulRobeson1920:

1 Centimeter of sediment generally represents 1,000 years of geologic time
Avatar 🤖 Swag For Life Member 6:26pm
PaulRobeson1920:

Historical Geology is groovy
  6:27pm
(another) Patrick in Hoboken:

I’m glad he isn’t all negative. We can’t put the genie back in the bottle, but hopefully we can learn to use our technology wisely
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PaulRobeson1920:

Hahaha yea yea yea
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listener 126464:

Living on the chicken bone layer!
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chresti:

The Chicken Bone Age!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:29pm
Mark Hurst:

"A wing and a prayer, on the chicken bone layer"
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Ken From Hyde Park:

Lots of languages going extinct in these days.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:32pm
melinda:

@chresti haha
Avatar 🤖 Swag For Life Member 6:33pm
Webhamster Henry:

Well this is fun! I'm pretty sure I've seen Bob Ostertag performing at various NYC downtown venues in the 80s/90s.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:33pm
ヱkョ:

I’d love to go to Borobudur someday. Anybody here been?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:34pm
Mark Hurst:

I've been there - amazing
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listener 126464:

Download the Monk app.
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-Ken:

I recall Bob Ostertag working with reel to reel tape loops and helium balloons holding up the loops
Avatar 🤖 Swag For Life Member 6:35pm
Bas NL:

Just visited west-Java. (and Bali)
Avatar 🤖 Swag For Life Member 6:36pm
Webhamster Henry:

Hey Bas - hear any Sundanese gamelan?
  6:37pm
Peter from Dover NJ:

Our 2d trip to China was 2013 and we saw those same sort of apartment towers. If I recall correctly, the migration to the cities is forced not voluntary.
Avatar 🤖 Swag For Life Member 6:38pm
Handy Haversack:

Hanoi story definitely not dissuading me from the Capitalocene!
Avatar 🤖 Swag For Life Member 6:38pm
Bas NL:

Not on Java Henry! Visited a gamelan show on Bali.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:39pm
ヱkョ:

Good point, many people used to move to Iowa City or other small cities for culture, and now many of the same people would only go to bigger places like NYC (or Austin) instead.
Avatar 🤖 Swag For Life Member 6:40pm
Webhamster Henry:

My band has not played together in a year, but I've seen a few gamelan performances on Zoom(!)
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DjLorraine:

My friend🎈 Hughie 🎈has been there. A writer and kite master
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Folsom:

@ヱkョYou can go to a small town like Asheville but that place is expensive
Avatar 🤖 Swag For Life Member 6:43pm
Ken From Hyde Park:

In the $2 future, maybe headphones and a set of VR goggles will replace going to shows.
Avatar 🤖 Swag For Life Member 6:43pm
tim from champaign (now washington):

Damn you Duchamp for making things complicated in art!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:43pm
Mark Hurst:

@KfHP The future is reduced for quick sale!
Avatar 🤖 Swag For Life Member 6:45pm
Bas NL:

Music should involve sweat.
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(Murakami Whywolf))):

Before the techies, native San Franciscans often complained about the hippies, gays, and artists, which are all terms nicer than the ones they used.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:46pm
melinda:

It's interesting that geographical wealth inequality is still such a significant phenomenon even in the internet age, it demonstrates the importance of physical proximity for social networking, legal dealing and wealth accumulation.
Avatar 🤖 Swag For Life Member 6:46pm
Webhamster Henry:

Realtime hi res VR characters are here now, and are only going to get cheaper.
Avatar 🤖 Swag For Life Member 6:47pm
tim from champaign (now washington):

Were they dancing to Mark Pauline machines at Burning Man?
Avatar 🤖 Swag For Life Member 6:48pm
paddy in matawan:

The YouTubes about this bass are insane!
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duck:

sorry mark, i love your show but i do not believe you guys are qualified to discuss music in this way. drum machines are not autonomous
Avatar 🤖 Swag For Life Member 6:48pm
tim from champaign (now washington):

Excellent observation, melinda.
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Hummumgerr:

Great interview. Book ordered!
Avatar 🤖 Swag For Life Member 6:49pm
PaulRobeson1920:

Absolutely live! See me change, change, change changee...

Jim Morrison forecasted the future of music in 1970? “1 person talking or singing over computer beats”
Avatar 🤖 Swag For Life Member 6:49pm
ultradamno:

There is a JGX Larsen soundtrack to most SRL shows, at least
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(((Murakami Whywolf):

melinda:
We evolved as tribes, and still have cities, communities, ethnic groups, nations…all of which fundamentally are about feeling that you _ought_ to care much more about some people than others.
Avatar 🤖 Swag For Life Member 6:49pm
ultradamno:

That said, I have danced to the washing machine, so why not?
Avatar 🤖 Swag For Life Member 6:51pm
paddy in matawan:

Here's a vid of the bass he was talking baout: www.youtube.com...
Avatar 🤖 Swag For Life Member 6:51pm
PaulRobeson1920:

Real interesting show here.

What accounts for historical change. As a consequence of what? Always a relevant question
Avatar 🤖 Swag For Life Member 6:52pm
Webhamster Henry:

There are composers that really want to hear otherwise unrealizable musical ideas. So Nancarrow hacked up player pianos, Zappa gave up performing for the Synclavier, or those Mop Tops and the Beach Boys using the studio as an instrument.
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(Murakami Whywolf))):

What are the Trumpists but a group of people assuming that migration and increased power by people they consider to be unlike them are 0.) threats to their way-of-life and that 1.) that way-of-life were the only right one?

Change should be manageable, but the unalloyed fear of it is a dead-end and a great opportunity for con-men.
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WR:

Ostertag at some point is assuming the mantle of historian ratger than explorer or innovator.
Avatar 🤖 Swag For Life Member 6:54pm
Handy Haversack:

Thanks, Mark and Bob!
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Rich in Washington:

That was fantastic! And happy birthday, Bob Ostertag!
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βrian:

(Or get it from the library, don't you know ...)
Avatar 🤖 Swag For Life Member 6:55pm
Webhamster Henry:

Another for the Techtonic Book List™!
Avatar 🤖 Swag For Life Member 6:55pm
tim from champaign (now washington):

Thanks, Mark. What a great interview!
  6:55pm
kevlicki:

Yes support PM press! Great comrades in Oakland!
  6:55pm
David in London:

I feel very conflicted by this. I absolutely love Bob and what he’s saying here is very profound, but we could level many of the same ‘dancing to machines’ criticisms at Kraftwerk (used on this show), but I feel intuitively many (including me) wouldn’t want to do that.
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PaulRobeson1920:

heyy!! HAPpY BiRtHDaY BOB!!
Avatar 🤖 Swag For Life Member 6:56pm
Folsom:

The pmpress site has a link for an ebook version, the print book does come with the digital version but it is nice if you want the ebook only
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:56pm
Corey:

Thanks Mark for the interesting discussion! Feel lucky I had a chance to tune in tonight!
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Bas NL:

Thanks Mark & Bob!
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Constance De Witt:

Thanks for the great interview!
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Carmichael:

My Samsung washer has a cool tune when it's done. I boogie to it all the time.
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listener 126464:

Thank you Mark, thanks Bob.
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melinda:

Geographic wealth inequality actually wasn't as bad before the internet age because there was political will and legislation to prevent or limit it.
  7:00pm
wobbly:

Great interview! My only comment via the chat is to note that it’s interesting that Kraftwerk frequently comes up as an example of ‘drum machine music’ when their lineup featured two human percussionists through 86; it’s actually as much man as machine. But those influenced by them in the 80s followed the latter half
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Ken From Hyde Park:

Thanks, Mark & Bob and thanks for keeping a cool head tonight!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:01pm
Rich in Washington:

Thanks! See you next week!
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