Bob Ostertag

Press

Note:
The following archive is by no means comprehensive. I have made no systematic effort over the years to archive reviews. The following is simply a list of those articles which by chance had ended up in my drawer when this web site was made. Many of these articles are older, as at a certain point I stopped saving press about my work. There was just too much of it.
It should also be noted that just as the vast majority of my concerts have been presented in non-English speaking countries, the vast majority of articles about my work is not in English. This includes all the more scholarly articles.
Concert organizers looking for press quotes for publicity purposes will find the "Brief Quotes" and "Selected Extracts" sections useful.
- Bob Ostertag

-English Press-

New York Times

On a Mission to Make Soul Unpredictable
Forum: Popular Music
New York Times, April 9, 2006
Creating Layered Sounds to Match Layered Animations:
Between Science and Garbage at Merkin Concert Hall
New York Times, January 14, 2003
Kronos Quartet   [ PDF ]
New York Times, April 28, 1992
Duo's Individual Statements   [ PDF ]
New York Times, September 9, 1989
Fall Mountain's New Music   [ PDF ]
New York Times, date unknown

General

Shoot out the Lights   [ PDF ]
San Francisco Bay Guardian, September 30, 1992
Stop the Osterizer, I Want To Get In   [PDF]
San Francisco Bay Guardian, March 17, 1993
Kaleidoscope: Bob Ostertag's new album, Like a Melody, No Bitterness, is a new chapter in a multifaceted career   [PDF]
San Francisco Bay Guardian, March 17, 1993
BOB   [PDF]
Mondo 2000, 1993 (large file, full color)
Bob Ostertag   [ PDF ]
The Wire, Issue 151, September 1996
Ostertag's Osterizer   [ PDF ]
Wired, June 1995
All the News That's Fit to Sample
Bob Ostertag Talks to Phil England   [ PDF ]
Resonance, Volume 3 Number 1 - Winter 1994.

Living Cinema

‰íSpecial Forces’Äö turns Lebanon war into art
Jewish News Weekly, April 27, 2007
Creating Layered Sounds to Match Layered Animations:
Between Science and Garbage at Merkin Concert Hall
New York Times, January 14, 2003
Taking Out the Trash [ PDF ]
City Pages, September 12, 2001

PantyChrist

Give Me an Orange   [ PDF ]
Last Plane to Jakarta, Fall 1999
PantyChrist   [ PDF ]
Torso, October 1999
PantyChrist   [ PDF ]
Q.U.E.E.R. Zine, July 1999
PantyChrist   [ PDF ]
ink 99, May 19, 1999
PantyChrist   [ PDF ]
East Bay Express, April 23, 1999
PantyChrist   [ PDF ]
Faster than Sheep, date unknown

Say No More

Say No More [ PDF ]
Jump Magazin, 1999
English translation in right column

Sooner or Later

Bob Ostertag: Attention Span | Bob Ostertag: Sooner or Later   [ PDF ]
Oakland Tribune, March 31, 1991
Tape Beatles plunder a media-mad culture; overwhelming realism from Bob Ostertag   [ PDF ]
Pulse, Number 100, 1991
Sooner or Later - Review   [ PDF ]
High Performance, Fall 1994

All the Rage

Silence=Death
Gay Rage Takes Center Stage at Center for the Arts   [ PDF ]
Bay Area Reporter, November 18, 1993
The sound and the fury
Remy Charlip and Margaret Jenkins forge street anger and creative tension into "All the Rage"   [ PDF ]
SF Weekly, November 17, 1993
Collaborators Build Rage From Riot   [ PDF ]
San Francisco Sentinel, November 17, 1993
Politics and Process
New Music from Kronos Quartet   [ PDF ]
San Francisco Bay Area Reporter, November 15, 1992

Yugoslavia Suite

Artist Examines Contradictions of Kosovo War [ PDF ]
Hartford Courant, September 13, 1999

Attention Span

Bob Ostertag, Attention Span | Bob Ostertag, Sooner or Later [ PDF ]
Cadence, January 1992
Bob Ostertag: Attention Span [ PDF ]
East Bay Guardian, August 1991

Voice of America

Voice of America - Reviews [ PDF ]
OP Magazine, Music and Sound Output, Down Beat, 1983-1984

Earliest Work

Three Good Records   [ PDF ]
Village Voice, January 7-13, 1981
Things That Go Bleep in the Night   [ PDF ]
Soho Weekly News, October 18, 1979
Brats in the Musical Playpen   [ PDF ]
Soho Weekly News, 1979
Avant You Should Listen   [ PDF ]
East Village Eye, August 1983
Fall Mountain   [ PDF ]
Coda, date unknown

Assorted Concert Reviews

Victoriaville Festival 1995   [ PDF ]
Cadence, July 1995
International Musique Actuelle - Festival Victoriaville   [ PDF ]
Exclaim Magazine, May 1995
Festival Musique Actuelle   [ PDF ]
Coda Magazine, March 1992
Victoriaville 1991   [ PDF ]
Cadence, December 1991