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Piero Mirio Scherer is a composer, musician and sound artist based in Zurich. Emerging from a background as a DJ and the squat subculture that shaped his early artistic environment, his practice moves between solo work and collaboration, club contexts and art spaces.
His projects range from improvised off-locations to concert halls, clubs and festivals, including Heart of Noise Festival (AT), ZKM | Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe (DE), and Zurich’s Backslash and Rhizom festivals.
Working across experimental music, film and theatre composition, and sound installation, he explores the relationships between sound, space and material. Often working with found sounds, field recordings and objects, his practice is shaped by listening, improvisation and experimentation. Space is approached not as a backdrop but as an active element, influencing how sound emerges and is experienced.
His sound installations have been presented at venues such as the Contemporary Culture Lab in Taipei and Kunstraum Toxi in Zurich. In 2024 he composed film scores for Bios Beneath Blind (dir. Kim Allamand) and Fixation (Moving Image NYC).
He holds a Master’s degree in Electroacoustic Composition from the Zurich University of the Arts. Alongside his artistic work, he co-founded the guerrilla concert series Doxa Shroti and the community studio CB Lab at Zurich’s Rote Fabrik.
