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The Pink Noise Saxophone Quartet

Here's a list of some of the jazz, rock and new music ensembles and bands I've performed, toured and worked with: More discography is below..

	The Pink Noise Saxophone Quartet. My band from 1996-2002. Read a review of  The Jig is Up. To buy a CD send $10.00 (USD) plus $3 shipping in the US; $6 international to the address on the home page.
	Firewater (Universal Records)
	The Last of the International Playboys
	The Modern Congress is a great album put together by a  very cool Sydney producer and guitarist Tim Rollinson.
	Myth Science (Knitting Factory Works) Review

Also as a sideman:
Steven Bernsteins’ Diaspora Soul
George Kilby Junior and the Coolerators
The Big Apple Circus
Pinetop Perkins; The blues piano legend (as seen on a Chicago street corner in The Blues Brothers movie,) and Grammy Lifetime achievement award recipient.2005.
The Main Squeeze Orchestra; A band of 16 women accordionists led by a dear friend of mine Walter Kuehr,  I recently arranged one of my pieces for them, and as far as I know,I’m the only man other than Walter to have had the absolute pleasure to have played in the band.
Ska legend Roscoe Gordon.
The Muggles; A band project for book publisher Scholastic to create music for the Harry Potter author J.K Rowling on her 1st visit to the US.
Bluetone
The Stingers
The Brooklyn Saxophone Quartet
Radio cult figure Joe Frank
Eve Beglarian
The Flux Quartet
Joe Gallant and the Illuminati Big Band
Michelle Kinney and Chris Cunninghams’ Ésctatomatique
The Original Otto Orchestra
Cecil Taylor- rehearsal band 1994
The Australian Enviromental Orchestra. New Guinea Tour 1990.
The New York Theater Workshop
Pardon Me Boys
David Linton and Electric Outhaus
The Virgil Moorefield Ensemble
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Discography:
The Pink Noise Saxophone Quartet; The Jig Is Up 1999 Pink Tomato 1998 The Jig is Up
‘Ryhmically driven, mood shifting music with blues and bop roots, keeping an anarchic energy barely in check. They wove themes of jazz, blues and ethnic folk melodies into a huge sphere of sound that was always tuneful’ Cadence Magazine
Virgil Moorefield Ensemble: ‘The Temperature in Hell is Over 3000 Degrees’. (Tdzadik Records) The Temperature in Hell Is Over Three Thousand Degrees + Unsettled Scores (Cuneiform Records). Various artists.
with Firewater ‘The Ponzi Scheme’  (Universal Records)
Psychopharmacology (Jetset Records) 
Some Strange Reaction (Jetset Records) 1997. Go to the Firewater  website.
The Last of the International Playboys.  Vegas Jazz & Latin Lounge (Transcontinental Records)  Web: The Last of the International Playboys
The Modern Congress http://www.inthemix.com.au/reviews/music/20456/
with Myth Science.  Love in Outer Space‘ (Knitting Factory Works)
Downtown Jazz & Other Sounds (Knitting Factory compilation 1997)
Myth Science - Time Out (compilation) (Knitting Factory 1996)
(LOVE IN OUTER SPACE is a collection of Sun Ra compositions. Myth-Science: Briggan Kraus (alto saxophone); Tim Otto (tenor saxophone); Anthony Coleman (organ); Reuben Radding (acoustic bass); Ed Ware (drums). Recorded live at the Knitting Factory Tap Bar, New York, New York on October 7 & 8, 1995. Includes liner notes by Reuben Radding.
JazzTimes (10/96, p.102) - "...[a] jumpin', happy set....They do capture some of the raw, emotive, unbridled spirit of Ra's mid-sized groups circa 1956-60 in Chicago....Myth Science gets beyond cool bar fare: it's lounge wizardry for thinkers.)
Chris Cunningham Stories to Play (2000)
Joe Gallant & Illuminati Big Band 'Çode of The West' Scratchy Records 1994
The Original Otto Orchestra OOO/ABC Records 1989
Pardon Me Boys: ABC (Australian Broadcasting Commision)Records Stairways to Heaven

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Selected performances and venues:
Bang on a Can, Avery Fischer Hall
Knitting Factory and related festivals, 1996,97 and 98;
Soha Arts Festival
Merkin Hall
MOMA
LaMama
North Sea Jazz Festival
NY Microtonal Festival
PS 122
Dixon Place
La Mama Galleria
CBGB's, and Gallery 313
Barbican Center, London
Singapore Arts Festival
Hamumis Festival, Papua New Guinea
Sydney, Melbourne and Adelaide Arts festivals. (Australia)
American Festival of Microtonal Music
New York Theater Workshop
...plus extensive US, Australian and world touring and club performances.
See the Bluetone website for more local events.

Film, Video and Theater

Scores for..
Russia For Sale (PBS Documentary Dir. Natasha Lance. Parallax Productions NY, 1993.
Dummy
'Lester Shot From a Canon' Dir. Adam Yaffe. Fingerprint Films NY 1993
Every Good Boy Dir. Adam Yaffe. Fingerprint Films NY 1995
Dance scores w/ Lucy Guerin at DIA Center for the Arts and Judson Church
Susan Graham: Score for video installation. Southhampton College 2004

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Tim’s music and compositions have been presented by:
The Jazz Composers Collective
Texaco NY, and Heinekin NY Jazz Festivals 1998, 1999
Edge Fest, Ann Arbor MI
The Absolute Ensemble
Meridian Arts Ensemble
Roulette, NY
Dixon Place
Kostabi World
Danspace @ St Marks Church
Film, TV, theater and dance:
Tim can be seen in the 2003 movie release ‘Dummy’ starring supermodel Mila Jovcovitch, and Academy Award winner Adrian Brody who plays a depressed suburban ventriloquist. Tim played drums in Mila’s characters’ band, and can be heard also playing clarinet on the soundtrack.
Here's a review quote for the Pink Noise Sax Quartet:

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