Oliver
Weber

Composer

HEAT WAVE II

Embers seep through.
Dizziness creeps from the ceiling.
Flickering signs appear on the white wall.
The blood boils and breath smelts to lead Only my fridge gives me hope for cooler days —

While we still have power.




HEAT WAVE II

Glut sickert durch.
Benommenheit senkt sich von der Decke.
Flackernde Zeichen erscheinen an der weißen Wand.
Das Blut kocht, der Atem schmilzt zu Blei.
Nur mein Kühlschrank gibt mir Hoffnung auf kühlere Tage —

Solange wir noch Strom haben.




“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