Tape Destruction
Destroy cassette tapes and get some awesome, mutated new sounds. It's fun, easy and I show you how to do it effectively. Pictures and audio examples right now. 
Bobcat in my Backyard!
What looked like a common housecat when its back was to me then turns to reveal something wild!
What looked like a common housecat when its back was to me then turns to reveal something wild!
Radio as a Processor
Give your music some amazing new character by transmitting it over the FM airwaves. I show you how.
Give your music some amazing new character by transmitting it over the FM airwaves. I show you how.
Iguana Invasion!
Thousands of giant reptiles call Gasparilla Island home. But are they welcome there?
"the Difficult Listening Channel" now comes in VIDEO format! I add images to the sounds just for you. Check out my YouTube channel....
Sony PCM-D50 Review
Can I have "too many" digital audio field recorders? Can a woman have "too many" pairs of shoes? I didn't think so....
Can I have "too many" digital audio field recorders? Can a woman have "too many" pairs of shoes? I didn't think so....
Michael Oster
F7 Sound and Vision's Michael Oster has recorded music, thunderstorms, F-18s, wild animals, kitchen utensils, celebrities, strange insects.... He also makes the coffee and takes out the trash.
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Turn the average laptop into a brutal noise machine. This site explores the computers, software, performances, noise and experimental music artists.
Free Video Clips
And you thought I only messed with sound.... Download a few of my short video segments to use in your production work. They're made to transition between scenes or to pad a jump cut. Think of them as a visual Concept:FX.
And you thought I only messed with sound.... Download a few of my short video segments to use in your production work. They're made to transition between scenes or to pad a jump cut. Think of them as a visual Concept:FX.
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Suburban Thunder Year Released: 1999 20 bit recording of a single severe thunderstorm. Recorded in Tampa, Florida, Suburban Thunder has been a long-time favorite with thousands of CDs and downloads sold world wide. Many people have used this CD to help train dogs to be calm during thunderstorms. Excerpts from Suburban Thunder were licensed and appear in the Oscar nominated film "Pirates of the Caribbean 2 - Dead Man's Chest". |
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Thunderstorms 2006 Year Released: 2007 Because of the success of Suburban Thunder, Michael Oster spent the 2006 rainy season recording more storms. He compiled this CD from the "best of" his storm recordings. Exceprts from Thunderstorms 2006 were licensed and appear in the television show "Twister Sisters" which documents sibling storm chasers. |
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Thunderstorms 2007 Year Released: 2008 Though it might at first seem a bit like overkill, Michael also spent the Summer of 2007 recording thunderstorms in Tampa. Why? Because each thunderclap is unique and also because people wanted even more thunderstorms! |
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Night Sounds Year Released: 2001 The sounds of a late winter cold front are the setting for this relaxing CD. Light rain, gentle breezes through palm trees, crickets, toads, and a once lightly populated New Tampa are preserved in this 60 plus minute recording. |
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Suburban Fireworks Year Released: 2004 What do you do when you get hundreds of requests for a "fireworks CD"? Well, if those requests come from dog owners who desperately want to make their pets lives better by conditioning them to be less fearful of the sounds of fireworks, you make a CD. OK, first you take a high resolution recording setup out to a place where the sky literally explodes on July 4th. Then, you make a CD. |
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Sound of a Dying Hurricane Year Released: 2005 August 2004, Hurricane Frances parks over Tampa after crossing the state of Florida. She knocks out power and keeps everyone inside waiting for the storm to end. So while everyone else was safely tucked away, Michael was recording the sound of this dying hurricane. You might think that a hurricane can only be terrifying. But, Frances actually had a peaceful side to her as well. |
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Mountain Streams and Waterfalls Year Released: 2007 Recorded in some out of the way places in the mountains of North Georgia and North Carolina, "Mountain Streams and Waterfalls" is exactly as the title says. So, what's the big deal? Well, we all know that the sounds you hear can affect how you feel. Maybe you want to sleep better, feel peaceful and less stressed or you just love the sounds of nature. "Mountain Streams and Waterfalls" sets the right mood. |
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Mountain Night Year Released: 2008 Over 68 minutes of unedited, uninterrupted insect "music" recorded in the North Georgia Mountains. You're hearing it exactly the way they "played" it. Great for soothing sonic wallpaper, it's a relaxing insect symphony. |
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Mountain Rain Year Released: 2008 I've had so many requests over the years for a "rain" CD. After years of recording in many different locations, I finally captured a rain ambience that I am truly happy with. Here it is, over 64 minutes of soothing rain and nothing else. |
Michael Oster - Official Discography
Audio CDs, digital media and Royalty-free sound effects CD-ROMs released from 1997 through the present.
Audio CDs, digital media and Royalty-free sound effects CD-ROMs released from 1997 through the present.
The Story Behind My CDs
Personality, character, style, emotion and more go in before a CD ever comes out. There's a method to this madness.
Thunderstorm CDs
Nature / Ambience
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Concept:FX volume 1 Year Released: 1997 Michael's first royalty-free sound effects CD-ROM features 195 original sounds in AIFF and WAV formats. Won a "Preferred Product" award at the Computer Game Developers Conference in 1997. The Concept:FX series of sounds was created specifically to grab your attention and has been used in radio, video, web, live installations, and even more unexpected and innovative ways. |
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Concept:FX2 Year Released: 1999 The second in the Concept:FX series features 305 new royalty-free sound effects. Highly rated in Keyboard and Electronic Musician Magazines, Concept:FX2 was such a success that there was only one thing to do: Make a 3rd one. |
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Concept:FX3 Year Released: 2000 With the fire still hot from Concept:FX2, all the stops were pulled out. Gear was broken. Stuff was melted. Digital audio was clipped. Vintage analog synthesizers were abused. And 1292 new sounds were added to the Concept:FX arsenal. The Concept:FX Series of CD-ROMs is still being sold and used over 10 years since the introduction of "volume 1". |
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Concept:FX circuitBenT MaTH Year Released: 2005 Available as a DOWNLOAD ONLY, Concept:FX circuitBenT MaTH features 647 royalty-free digital quirks, hiccups, glitches, tweaks, blabber phrases, and utter nonsense. Well, that's the sound you get when you circuit bend a Texas Instruments Speak and Math. The voice synthesizer in the game basically goes "NUTS"! It's funny, quirky, and unique, and you don't even need to know how to circuit bend since the work's been done for you. |
Royalty-free SoundEffects
Zombies in the Basement!
Year Released: 2007
A Halloween CD? Come on, how many haunted houses out there need zombie sounds? Plenty! And when you need the sounds of a room being terrorized by the undead, this is the CD to grab.
Year Released: 2007
A Halloween CD? Come on, how many haunted houses out there need zombie sounds? Plenty! And when you need the sounds of a room being terrorized by the undead, this is the CD to grab.
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FLUID Year Released: 2000 It began with a single 14 second sound clip. It became over 54 minutes of music. All from the manipulation, the bending, the molding, the mangling of that single sound. This is Michael's first experimental music release. |
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Better, Stronger, Faster.... Year Released: 2003 In "better, stronger, faster....", Oster melts conventional synths, circuit bent instruments, damaged tape, blurred ambiences, field recordings, and manipulated electronics. An evolution? A decomposition? Yes, maybe. What? |
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dissipate Year Released" 2005 It's dark. It's ambient. It's analog? Kinda. "dissipate" continues in the direction of Michael Oster's 2005 era "Difficult Listening Channel" podcasts. It's a surreal soundscape that conjures up moving images, psychedelic sweeping colors, and a touch of sci-fi. |
ExperiMENTAL Music / Other
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Dr. ReGurgiTron Year Released: 2011 It's a new decade and Michael rings it in with a whole new level of synthesis sound design. The evolution continues. |
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meow Year Released: 2012 Sounds that were never meant to be put together... were put together. A laptop computer was abused and then controlled chaos followed. Some things fell apart. Others simply broke. And more just slowly decayed. This is the soundtrack to what actually happened. |
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Buster's Last Stand Year Released: 2012 Part 2 of this epic trilogy (Part 1 is "meow")!!! They've finally had enough and now the machines are through with being nice. A crumbling power grid and failing internet can't hold them back. Neither can the nation's best minds. A disaster slowly unfolds. |
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Hungarian Throw-up Machine Year Released: 2012 The third and final installment of this amazing trilogy! If you're ever in one of my dreams, never, ever, ever, under any circumstances get in an elevator. No matter how normal it seems. Just don't do it. Because it will get weird real quick. That's where this soundtrack begins. |
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Return of the Prepared AK47 Year Released: 2012 The most famous (or infamous) assault rifle in the world gets a makeover. It's quirky, murky, strange, and beautiful all at the same time. It makes for great background music as well. But it's not what you think. |
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Useful Masking Noise Year Released: 2013 65 minutes of specially-created complex noise which can be used to mask unwanted sounds. A cross between a closeup waterfall hitting cool rocks, old analog television static, with a gentle touch of industrial fan and a faint hint of radio crackle. |
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...Aliens Invade! Year Released: 2013 An experiment in human artificial intelligence sends an errant signal into space and aliens are inadvertently contacted. Then it gets weird. |
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Electric PlacentaLand Year Released: 2013 It started as a synthesizer that I made called "Electric Placenta". It's also a play on a Hendrix release that some of you might recognize. Electric PlacentaLand is loud and intense. Its sonic textures and colors change, evolve and don't let you go. |
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Breakfast at Lobotomy's Year Released: 2013 It's intense noise. The kind you were warned about. But it's deeper than that. Complex and always moving, Oster keeps it going on "Breakfast at Lobotomy's" with thick, heavy walls of electronic destruction! |
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Messages From Space Year Released: 2013 The prequel to "...Aliens Invade!" Weeks before the invasion a series of messages were sent to Earth. Complex and confusing, but highly specific instructions were embedded within a stream containing thousands of random sounds.... |
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Many of my CDs are now available as mp3 and "Full Quality" digital downloads.
Many of my CDs are now available as mp3 and "Full Quality" digital downloads.
