By day one makes the mark, one turns the key and one brings the sub. By night these converge to draw attention to the class that extorts all others in the name of greed. You are being stalked by blue screens, held captive with arbitrary constraints and herded into echo chambers by algorithms that crave distraction. Distract you from what you ask? So do we...

Mark Oliveiro, a Sydney native, Doctor of Music and Lecturer in Music Composition at the Australian of Institute of Music, and is a composer with diverse extra-musical interests. Whilst notions of narrative, programme and theatre, have always been a stoic component of his music; Oliveiro offers an exploration of the quintessence of ceremony inherent in all human expression. 

An obsession with history, mythology and ancient literature, renders Oliveiro’s work riddled with themes from archaeological study and obscure urban legends, alike. His music has been described as; “epic”, “unashamedly ritualistic” and “atmospheric” with “Dreamtime overtones”. At present, Oliveiro has an interest in exploring, by way of conceptual abstract and musical aesthetic, the notion of reconstructing lost or imagined performance traditions. Dance and movement, theatrics and technology, language and social media, are just some of the non-musical solutions most apt for the ever expanding, contemporary composer tool belt. 

With a keen and equal interest in music of the acoustic and electronic medium, Oliveiro’s music has been represented at national and international conferences and festivals hosted by: the North American Saxophone Alliance, the World Saxophone Congress, the International Horn Society, the Australasian Computer Music Association, the International Computer Music Association, the Society of Electroacoustic Music in the United States, Electronic Music Midwest, the British Trombone Society and many more.

Oliveiro is a graduate and distinguished alumnus of the Sydney Conservatorium, the College of Music and the University of North Texas and the Jacob’s School of Music of Indiana University. His music has been commissioned by the International Horn Society and the Meir Rimon Commissioning fund, the Australiasian Art Music Fund, the Settimane Musicali di Stresa e del Lago Maggiore, Chronology Arts, Pictures on Silence, as well as numerous professional individuals. 

Oliveiro is an active Disc Jockey and Music Educator.

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