Event Detail

This event has already taken place! Please make sure you are in the correct year. ×
Jul
19
Thursday
Jul
19
Thu
Music/Baile :: Jazz
Bob Ostertag in concert
8:00 PM
La Locomotora Foro Escénico
Bob Ostertag in concert Description:
Bob Ostertag in concert
$50 / $65


BOB OSTERTAG
Professor of Cinema and Digital Media
Composer, performer, instrument builder, journalist, activist, historian, kayak instructor—Bob Ostertag’s work cannot easily be summarized or pigeon-holed. He has published 21 CDs of music, 2 films, and 3 books, and appeared at music, film, and multimedia festivals around the globe.

As a journalist, his writings on contemporary politics have been published in many languages. Electronic instruments of his own design are at the cutting edge of both music and video performance technology.

Born in Albuquerque in 1957, he dropped out of the Oberlin Conservatory after two years, settled in New York City in 1978 and immersed himself in the “downtown” music scene of the period. He left music in 1980/81 to work in Central America, and became an expert on the region, with writings published in Asia, Africa, Latin America, Europe, and the U.S. In 1988 he moved to San Francisco and resumed his musical activity. His radically diverse collaborators have included the Kronos Quartet, avant garders John Zorn and Fred Frith, heavy metal star Mike Patton, jazz great Anthony Braxton, dyke punk rocker Lynn Breedlove, drag diva Justin Bond, film maker Pierre Hébert, and others. He is rumored to have connections to the shadowy media guerrilla group The Yes Men.
Age Group: All Ages
Venue: La Locomotora Foro Escénico
Address: Calle Norte 1 #109, Col Victor Bravo Ahuja, Santa Lucia del Camino, Oaxaca, Mexico
Phone: N/A

Add Event to Calendar: