The Universe Looking At Itself Through a Tiny Mirror

Room Without a Floor

The Artist's Room

Almost Nothing

Today My Name Is

Live solo concert in Geneva @ptt
Tobias Meier saxophone

SOLO another microscopic thought - live 2015

COLD VOODOO
Tobias Meier alto saxophone
Silvan Jeger double bass

Live @ WIM Zürich 2016

COLD VOODOO Silvan Jeger / Tobias Meier @ WIM Zürich 2016

Composition for 10 voices and sounds. Recorded 2013.

Eden

Eden (excerpt) (Tobias Meier, 2013)

SEND/RECEIVE
Tobias Meier, 2018
UA Bildwelten_XL, 16.3.2018

„Send/Receive“ ist eine szenische Musik-Performance für 10 Musiker*innen. Auf spielerische Art wird dabei das Thema Kommunikation und gemeinsame Entwicklung untersucht. In einer Gemeinschaft ist jede*r einzelne*r aufgefordert, gleichsam eigenes, persönliches einzubringen, sowie auch fremdes aufzunehmen und dem Raum zu gewähren, was andere anbieten. Das „gebende“ und „empfangende“ Prinzip muss für einen produktiven, kreativen Austausch im Gleichgewicht sein. So können Gedanken einzelner von der Gemeinschaft aufgefangen und weiter entwickelt werden. Mit dieser Balance soll in „Send/Receive“ gespielt werden. Gemeinsam mit dem Publikum können so die Performer*innen erforschen, wie Kommunikation gesellschaftlichen Wandel und Wachstum ermöglichen kann.

Nadja Crola - performance
Tobias Meier - saxophone, fm-radio
Martin Meyer - drums, fm-radio
Marc Méan - synth, fm-radio
Tomoko Hojo - clarinet, fm-radio
Rahel Kraft - voice, zither, fm-radio
Dalia Donadio - voice, fm-radio
Beat Keller - feedback guitar, fm-radio
Raphael Walser - double bass, fm-radio

www.tobias-meier.ch/send-receive

Send/Receive (Tobias Meier, 2018) - excerpt

Tobias Meier is a musician and artist based in Zurich, Switzerland. He regularly performs internationally, for instance with Silvan Jeger as "Cold Voodoo", with singer Dalia Donadio or as Through States of Matter in changing settings. Tobias Meier has written and performed various works for solo saxophone, as well as composed music for contemporary music ensembles and performed various scenic sound-performances. As a composer and improviser, he is interested in architectural gestures: the scenarios and methods of design, the setting of tonal coordinates, along which, the music gradually develops. For him, this process entails an irreducible experience that is to be re-engaged with again and again. For him, generating a musical space of sounds, time and pitches represents an event, rather than anything autocratic or finished: he explains that only the listener completes the music and assembles it to form a whole. For precisely this reason, he considers the shaping of music on an organisational, receptive and discursive level to be just as important as the actual playing of music. As organiser of the concert series Seismogram and the Wiediker Jazzfest, as co-founder of the self-run label Wide Ear Records, as editor of a zine for musicians (first released in 2015) and by designing and making his own CD and LP covers, he quite tangibly shapes the appearance and framework conditions of music. What lies behind all this engagement is not only the immense love and passion that he obviously feels towards music, for which he keeps taking new risks, but also the ongoing implementation and further development of his ideas.

Tobias Meier

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