Oliver
Weber

Composer

THE CONCIOUSNESS OF TIME, While Scanning Sector 3012

Unplugged version

[transmission fragment – code: AXIOM:66151]
::SCAN INCOMPLETE::
Consciousness construct located [Δ-time offset: unknown]

Residual echo detected. Emotional patterns: unstable.
Attempted reconstruction:
– memory-thread 03Σ#-fault // harmonic deviation registered
– signal loops unresolved
– identity marker: lost

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Integrity: 41%. Meaning: corrupted. Relevance: undismissed.

“After several years of composition lessons in Basel with Rudolf Kelterborn, Oliver Weber left Switzerland for Vienna. There he was taught instrumental and electro-acoustic composition by Michael Jarrell, Dieter Kaufmann and Wolfgang Mitterer. Since then, Weber has worked as a freelance composer and musician. During his studies, he discovered electroacoustics for himself and has been operating at the interface between electronic and instrumental music ever since. His focus is on creating connections between these seemingly distant sound worlds. Weber on his preferred working method: “I carry out creative processes directly on sonic progressions and textures.” Weber therefore always takes acoustic phenomena as his starting point. In doing so, he distances himself critically from all too strictly serial, quasi-mathematized compositional processes, because they lack an inner tension. For Weber, however, such tension is indispensable in music, which is why reflection on the inner logic and dramaturgy of a piece seems central to him when composing: “The interplay of tension and relaxation is a central point in my compositional work.”

Fritz Trümpi