Oliver
Weber
Composer
Oliver
Weber
Composer
After several years of composition lessons in Basel with Rudolf
Kelterborn, Oliver Weber left Switzerland for Vienna, where he studied
composition with Michael Jarrell for eight years. Since then, Weber has
worked as a freelance composer and musician. During his studies he
developed his personal interest for electroacoustic music and since then
has been operating on and at the juncture between the electronic and
instrumental music fields. Oliver focuses on creating connections
between these sound worlds, which at first glance seem far apart. Weber
on his preferred way of working: "I carry out design processes directly
on the sound." Weber always takes acoustic phenomena as his starting
point, critically distancing himself from compositional processes that
are too strictly serial and mathematized, which do not spark his
interest and creativity. For Weber, however, this is indispensable in
music, which is why reflection on the inner logic and dramaturgy of a
piece seems central to him when composing: “For me, the play of tension
and release is a central point in compositional work.”
Fritz Trümpi