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Rob Wasserman (April 1, 1952 – June 29, 2016) was an American, Grammy Award winning upright bass player and NEA grant winning composer, who has played and recorded with a wide variety of musicians including Bruce Cockburn, Elvis Costello, Ani di Franco, Jerry Garcia, David Grisman, Rickie Lee Jones, Mark Morris, Van Morrison, Aaron Neville, Lou Reed, Pete Seeger, Jules Shear, Studs Terkel, Bob Weir, Brian Wilson, Chris Whitley, Neil Young, Jackson Browne, Laurie Anderson, Stephen Perkins Banyan, Mystic Knights of the Oingo Boingo and Ratdog He is best known for his own work on the trilogy of albums, Solo,...

Schaltkreis Wassermann was a pioneer group of electronic music. Founded in 1979 by Stella & PJ Wassermann (who still work together on several projects) Schaltkreis Wassermann featured a minimalistic approach that was dictated by the available means: • an ARP 2600 Synthesizer, • an ARP Avatar guitar synthesizer • a Roland 100M modular synthesizer • and a Sequential Circuits Prophet V synthesizer, all kept together by the Roland MicroComposer MC4 that was capable of playing four simultaneous monophonic synths but that was extremely complicated to program. Tape recording was done with a TEAC 4-track and later with an Otari 8-track...