reiheM presents: Bob Ostertag / Nicolas Collins & Birgit Uhler | Live Recording at Loft

tickets:
regular: 14,- €uro
students, disabled persons: 7,- €uro

doors: 7.30 pm CEST
concert starts:
approx. 8.00 pm CEST

Bob Ostertag’s musical practice since the 1970s is legendary for its early use of sampling in the field of free improvisation. Often politically charged and activist-oriented, his activities are not limited to music alone, but also include texts, books, media guerrilla (The Yes Men), film, journalistic work and teaching. Bob Ostertag has been involved in numerous collaborative music projects with Fred Frith, John Zorn, Kronos Quartet, Mike Patton, Phil Minton, Shelley Hirsch, Rrose and Otomo Yoshihide, among others. At the Loft, he will present an improvised solo set with a software synthesizer and gamepad controller....

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tickets:
regular: 14,- €uro
students, disabled persons: 7,- €uro

doors: 7.30 pm CEST
concert starts:
approx. 8.00 pm CEST

Bob Ostertag’s musical practice since the 1970s is legendary for its early use of sampling in the field of free improvisation. Often politically charged and activist-oriented, his activities are not limited to music alone, but also include texts, books, media guerrilla (The Yes Men), film, journalistic work and teaching. Bob Ostertag has been involved in numerous collaborative music projects with Fred Frith, John Zorn, Kronos Quartet, Mike Patton, Phil Minton, Shelley Hirsch, Rrose and Otomo Yoshihide, among others. At the Loft, he will present an improvised solo set with a software synthesizer and gamepad controller.

http://bobostertag.com

In the duo !Trumpet + Trumpet! by Nicolas Collins and Birgit Uhler, two variants of “extended” trumpet playing come together. While Nicolas Collins has designed his sensor- and loudspeaker-equipped trumpet as a hybrid of a hardware and software modification, Birgit Uhler expands her instrument in a purely acoustic-mechanical way. The tonal results often come surprisingly close and merge hacked “Trumpelectronics” with the technically conventional wind instrument.

Nicolas Collins is known worldwide as the author of “Handmade Electronic Music – The Art of Hardware Hacking” and for the many workshops he has held on this subject. He has recently published the book “Semi-Conducting – Rambles through the Post-Cagean Thicket” with Bloomsbury in February 2025.

https://www.nicolascollins.com/

https://birgit-ulher.de

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