thursday april 24 | 10:30 pm

$20 | $15 student/senior

Between Science and Garbage
with Bob Ostertag and Pierre Hébert

The Registry Theatre |122 Frederick Street in Kitchener

Bob Ostertag has been at the cutting edge of new music for two decades, an influential pioneer in digital sampling and recording working with such new-musical luminaries as the Kronos Quartet and John Zorn. Montreal's Pierre Hébert is a longtime animator, a master of the unusual craft of scratch animation (making cinema byengraving directly onto film). In performance the pair create a live film. Hébertmakes images by drawing marker on paper, chalk on chalkboard, blowing dust onmirrors and manipulating piles of garbage. Ostertag records the sound of thedetritus while also spawning shapes on a digital drawing tablet. Although technicallyintensive, the piece doesn't celebrate technology but questions it. Ostertagand Hébert are merely trying to make sense out of science and garbage— a more explicit rendition of the situation we all live with every day.