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A resident of the Bay Area since 1992, Ettinger has played an instrumental role in the fertile music environment there. He has performed and recorded with an array of noteworthy artists over the years, including two cuts as a "string section" with Honeycut (a new project on DJ Shadow's Quannum Records); composer/clarinetist Beth Custer (on her CD Vinculum Symphony and DVD My Grandmother); vocalist Percy Howard (Incidental Seductions with Living Colour's Vernon Reid, King Crimson's Trey Gunn and This Heat's Charles Hayward); the late alto saxophonist Calder Spanier (The Calder Project); Chicago-based saxophonist Scott Rosenberg (IE); singer Mark Growden (Inside Beneath Behind); and singer-songwriter Pete Forbes (The Gulf Between).

Ettinger served as a co-founding member of several bands, including eclectic improv groups Overdrive Cultists (with Grassy Knoll members Dave Revelli and Jonathan Byerly); LBJ (with Lukas Ligeti and Brian Kane); San Francisco Electric String Trio (with Doug Carroll and Jim Hearon). and electric jazz-jam band Hurlo Thrumbo. He played and recorded with psychedelic punk band Clockbrains, and has also performed in various settings with The Scott Amendola Band, Damon Smith, Matt Ingalls, Andrew Borger, and Naut Humon and the Iso-Orchestra with Arto Lindsay and Eyvind Kang. Prior to moving to the Bay Area, Ettinger lived in Arizona, where he collaborated with several musicians, including Trio Discussions (with Rob Kaplan, and J. B. Smith), an improv group with a recording produced by guitarist David Torn; vocalist Dennis Rowland, and tenor saxophonist Tony Malaby.

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