Piero Mirio Scherer (born in Lucerne, lives and works in Zurich) is a composer, musician, and sound artist. He started his career as a DJ and has since developed a multifaceted body of work, both solo and in collaboration. His projects have taken him to stages around the world, from unconventional off-spaces to renowned concert halls, clubs, and festivals. Notable appearances include the Heart of Noise Festival (Austria), the Center for Art and Media (ZKM) in Karlsruhe, as well as Zurich’s Backslash and Rhizom festivals.
His artistic practice spans experimental music performances, compositions for film and theatre, and installative sound art. Across all of his work, he is particularly drawn to complex processes of sound transformation and their influence on acoustic spaces and the perception of listeners. A recurring focus lies in working with existing materials – found sounds in his performances and compositions, and found objects in his installative works – which he continuously re-frames and re-contextualizes into new constellations.
In 2025 he completed his Master’s degree in Electroacoustic Composition (Composition & Theory) at the Zurich University of the Arts (ZHdK). His thesis developed an alternative practice model for experimental music that foregrounds process, listening, and transformation over normative structures. Key aspects include conscious listening, exploration, play, and exchange as tools for artistic development, emphasizing experimentation as both method and aesthetic. These principles flow directly into his artistic work and continue to shape his current and future practice.
His sound installations have been presented at venues such as the Contemporary Culture Lab in Taipei and the Kunstraum Toxi in Zurich. His first film scores were composed in 2024 for Bios Beneath Blind (dir. Kim Allamand) and Fixation (Moving Image NYC).
As a co-founder of the guerrilla concert series Doxa Shroti and the community studio CB-Lab at Zurich’s Rote Fabrik, and formerly of the Rhizom Festival, Piero Scherer is actively engaged in knowledge sharing, accessible production infrastructures, and collaborative artistic formats.