:::About:::
 
Zwingli is bob j otis experimenting with electronic sounds.

After leaving the Diabolical Guppies in mid-1996, bob began working on musik using Tascam 424mkII four-track tape recorder and a Yamaha PSR-185 keyboard. Initially, the musik was created through experimenting with keyboard drum beats, cassette samples, tape loops, and broken fx boxes. As time progressed, bob began collecting all types of 1980’s keybords; specifically early Casiotones and the Yamaha PSS series.

In August 1997, bob started attending college at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, and began to work with John Yanarella to create electronic computer musik using an old Power Macintosh 7100/80. From these sessions came the first full-length Zwingli LP, musik, released in August 1998. The second LP, made with plastik, was released in 1999 and contained a mixture of dark hiphop beats colliding with analogue synths.

In mid-1999, bob began working with the Universal Postmen on the "Noise" sessions, which are currently unreleased. These sessions were interrupted due to the recording of the Univesal Postmen’s the robots are cloning me LP and bob forming the shogazer/indie-rock band the Elevator Company. An EP 2600/inkey’s theme was released in November 1999, featuring the only songs completed from the "Noise" sessions.

The year 2000 saw more work on the "Noise" sessions, but nothing further was released. In September 2000 bob began to work on the sessions that would spawn the LP syntax error: does not kompute, which was released in May 2001. These sessions saw bob embracing a new approach to creating musik, featuring intricate beat structures, driving bass lines, and melodic synthesizers.

Currently bob splits his time between working on new Zwingli tracks and Alphabet1, an experimental and noise-based project that utilizes found sound as source material.

Collaborators and remixers of Zwingli include: John Yanarella, Shakir Hermiz, Dave Otis (Paul Lanowski Ramtell), the Unviersal Postmen, Dan Landfriend, Ray Ogar (Shapethrower/HWIDR), and Ian Travis (Long Search For Pegasus, Chin Xaou Ti Won).

Hardware: Roland Juno 60, Korg Poly-Six, Casio CTK-601, Macintosh PowerPC 8100/80AV.
Software: PlayerPro 5.9.8, SoundEffects 0.9.2, Rebirth 2.0, Reason 2.5.