Attention Span (album)

Attention Span
Studio album by Ostertag with Zorn with Frith
Released	1990 (1990)
Recorded	September – December 1989 (1989-12)
Studio	Various The Knitting Factory (New York City, New York) Mills College (Oakland, California)
Genre	experimental sound collage
Length	45:21
Label	RecRec
Bob Ostertag chronology
Voice of America (1982) Attention Span (1990) Sooner or Later (1991)
Fred Frith chronology
Step Across the Border (1990) Attention Span (1990) Dropera (1991)

No.	Title	Music	Length
1.	"Power"	Ostertag, Zorn	1:07
2.	"Paper Jam"	Ostertag, Zorn	0:16
3.	"Warning"	Ostertag, Zorn	0:25
4.	"And Gate"	Ostertag, Zorn	0:10
5.	"Necker Cube"	Ostertag, Zorn	0:56
6.	"Fold"	Ostertag, Zorn	1:06
7.	"Ebb Tide"	Ostertag, Zorn	0:51
8.	"Marketing Research"	Ostertag, Zorn	0:21
9.	"Fixed Resistor"	Ostertag, Zorn	0:17
10.	"Radiant Power"	Ostertag, Zorn	1:14
11.	"Depth Reversal"	Ostertag, Zorn	0:21
12.	"Dangerous Zone"	Ostertag, Zorn	0:37
13.	"Hit the Road"	Ostertag, Zorn	0:21
14.	"Smoking"	Ostertag, Zorn	1:55
15.	"Waiting"	Ostertag, Zorn	1:31
16.	"Electric Flux"	Ostertag, Zorn	0:36
17.	"Cocktail Lounge"	Ostertag, Zorn	0:35
18.	"Coat Check"	Ostertag, Zorn	1:05
19.	"Detour"	Ostertag, Zorn	0:24
20.	"Meter"	Ostertag, Zorn	0:59
21.	"Circuit Breaker"	Ostertag, Zorn	1:11
22.	"Surge Impendence"	Ostertag, Zorn	0:40
23.	"Vision"	Ostertag, Zorn	1:57
24.	"Black, To a Chimp"	Ostertag, Zorn	0:20
25.	"Neon"	Ostertag, Zorn	1:00
26.	"Emergency Shop"	Ostertag, Zorn	3:14
27.	"Flame"	Frith, Ostertag	1:54
28.	"Bone"	Frith, Ostertag	5:39
29.	"Jolt"	Frith, Ostertag	6:03
30.	"Bolt"	Frith, Ostertag	4:37
31.	"Loops"	Frith, Ostertag	0:56
32.	"Drowning Offshore"	Frith, Ostertag	2:43

Personnel

Adapted from the Attention Span liner notes. ^[7]

Musicians

• Fred Frith  – guitar (1-26)
• Bob Ostertag  – sampler, liner notes
• John Zorn  – alto saxophone (1-26)

Production and design

• Bob Appel – engineering
• Douglas Kenny – cover art, design
• Jonathan Nelson – engineering
• Diego Zweifel – design

Release history

Region	Date	Label	Format	Catalog
Switzerland	1990	RecRec	CD	ReCDec 33

References

1. Rusch, Bob (1995). "Bob Ostertag w/ John Zorn/Fred Frith: Attention Span". Cadence . David Haney: 7. Retrieved August 14, 2020.
2. Dean, R.T. (March 2003). Hyperimprovisation Computer-Interactive Sound Improvisation. A-R Editions. p. 122. ISBN   9780895795083 . Retrieved August 14, 2020.
3. Ostertag, Bob (July 27, 2009). Creative Life: Music, Politics, People, and Machines. McFarland & Company. p. 188. ISBN   9780252076466 . Retrieved August 14, 2020.
4. "Bob Ostertag: Attention Span". CD Review Digest . 6 (4). Peri Press: 410. 1992. ISBN   9781879796096 . Retrieved August 4, 2020.
5. Caras, Tracy; Gagne, Cole (1992). "Interviews with American Composers". Soundpieces 2. 6 (4). Peri Press: 410. ISBN   9780810827103 . Retrieved August 4, 2020.
6. Mills, Ted. "Bob Ostertag: Attention Span > Review". AllMusic . Retrieved August 14, 2020.
7. Attention Span (booklet). Bob Ostertag. Zürich, Switzerland: RecRec Music. 1993.

External links

• Attention Span at Discogs (list of releases)