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member since: 04/24/08 07:59:49
background / biography
Orb Gettarr grew up in the midwest and caught the 'music bug' at the age of 17, experimenting with recording techniques as early as high school using two portable cassette tape recorders. (Of course, the technology has improved slightly since then!) Tetragrammaton Productions Ltd was born as a concept in 1982- Orb Gettarr preferring to record, mix, and produce his own music. The microlabel was born in 1999 when Orb first obtained computer software to digitally record and also convert the analog recordings made during the 80's with the preceding 4-track recording equipment. Orb has spent years working on voice programming techniques beginning with the Yamaha DX100 fm synthesizer that appears in most of the legacy 1980's albums that appear in the merchandise section here. Ambient style has been Orb's main influence since his discovery of artists like Brian Eno, Harold Budd, and Holger Czukay, as well as David Sylvian and other artists... Orb is a guitarist mainly, but has also worked at keyboard and synth technique, and also plays mandolin.. In 2003, Orb had a musical epiphany and discovered for himself (as other artist have in their own right) that sound does not necessarily have to follow a pre-conceived format of 'rock ensemble', guitar, bass, keyboard and drums- it could be almost any kind of sound arranged in almost any kind of a format, even what would be considered non-musical by some... That was when 'After The Fall' came out, and then was followed up by 'Universal Core' and the break-out ambient effort in 2004 of 'Enigmatic Realms' and 'A Series of Fortunate Events'..
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Todd Rundgren, Roger Powell, Brian Eno, Robert Fripp, David Sylvian, Peter Gabriel, Kate Bush, Michael Hedges, Pat Metheny, Ralph Towner, Al di Meola, etc.
