2025 Asia Tour
Indonesia – Yogyakarta
23.02 Stroom Festival
25.02 Tuesday Louder
27.02 Invisible Wave
Taiwan – Taipei
08.03 Iluminare o Eliminame
09.03 Outer Pulsation
12.03 NFT
with Luc Häfliger
documentation by Tim Häsler
Scribbles of Crumbs
Music helps me escape my mind and fully experience the moment…
Final Concert MAS Composition and Theorie, Electroacoustic Compostition
IFMZ Zurich
Up 8ling
2024, 8 minutes, fixed media, spatialized on 21 speakers
Up 8ling is a composition that was created from unused audio files and faulty recordings stored on my hard drive. The files were collected, categorized, and sonically manipulated in terms of timbre and pitch. This rather generic process of variation and selection combines rational exploration with personal aesthetic choice. The composition of the sonic material aims to maintain balance based on the principles of what I know (perceptual connections, rules) and what I feel (based on personal preferences, character).
The piece was presented at Lange Nacht, University of Arts in Zureich.
Bios Beneath Blind
Bios beneath Blind is a contemplative essay of natural life above and below the surface of human perception. An erratic journey from the tranquility of alpine landscapes to the microscopic hustle of our invisible neighbours. Mixing poetics of nature with the realism of science, it appeals to our collective consciousness to preserve our biodiversity and its resources vital to our survival.
original idea:
Sebastian Nagelmueller & Kim Allamand
narration:
Lotti Happle
text & typography:
Roman Imhof
directing & editing:
Kim Allamand
scientific research & microscopy:
Elena Eigenheer &
Sebastian Nagelmueller
sound:
Piero Scherer & Manolo Müller
mastering:
Daniel Bleuer
video projection:
Matthias Signer
Fixation
Filming within an eye-tracking platform funded by Meta, Fixation gives presence to omnipresent attention-manipulating media and how they affect what we perceive as real.
creating
original idea:
William Wiebe
directing & editing:
William Wiebe
sound:
Manolo Müller & Piero Scherer
mastering:
Moritz Werner
Des Coda – Mean Field Mutation (LP)
Des Coda is an open field for collaborative, cultural experiments beyond the conventional understanding of authorship and representation. It engages with an artistic position that defines the creative process as an interplay between context and concept. The resulting work is not a rigid product of authoritarian ingenuity, but a sensitive, living organism guided by the tensions between society and individual. Des Coda is the zestful curiosity rummaging through the rubble of the present in search of future aesthetics.
Mean Field Mutation is a thermodynamic phenomenon occurring just below the vaporization point of voracious growth. It relies on the debris of false and almost forgotten narratives. Astral residue of consumer angst, echoes of obsolete newspeak and oscillations of promotional imbecilities collide with free floating particles hovering under the radar of the megamachine. In steady intervals, this results in a meltdown producing random waves of reconfigurations driven by cryptic but sanguine naivety.
Released on Lustpoderosa, Mean Field Mutation is the first musical output by Des Coda. Written and produced by Piero Scherer during the pandemic winter of 2021 in his bedroom studio in Zurich. Moving between playful serenity and feral distortion, it was produced by layering sounds from field recordings, radio and TV clips, as well as sequences from drum machines and analogue synthesizers. Taking a stance against commercial copyright, all stems of this production are available for download free of charge and ready to be reappropriated.
Production: Piero Scherer
Mixing: Florin Büchel
Cover Art: Martin Cramatte
Text: Roman Imhof
Mean Field Mutation is scheduled to be published on vinyl and digital formats in spring 2025.
Outer Pulsation
w. Jamira Estrada
Guerrilla concert in an underpass somewhere in Taipei, Taiwan
Home of the Scattered
“The mushroom of a morning does not know (what takes place between) the beginning and end of a month; the short-lived cicada does not know (what takes place between) the spring and autumn. These are instances of a short term of life.” – Zhuangzi, 1891
A discrepancy between an in- and outside, where the world evolves and transforms on one side, but everything seems to remain constant on the other. Forgotten artifacts and derelict treasure intertwine with their constantly evolving environment, creating a surreal sense of time dilation. A space where we shift our sensations & time perspectives, in which we must try to position ourselves attentively to perceive the resonant bodies.
Home of the Scattered is a multi-speaker sound installation that delves into the intricate interplay between shelter and isolation, protection and constraint. Navigate a space where the boundaries of inside and outside, protection and limitation seamlessly blur into an evocative soundscape.
Audio Installation
C-LAB, Taipei Taiwan
Xu Chia-Chun
Jamira Estrada
Piero Scherer
Websy
In a sonic and visual landscape, everything is connected to something, but nothing is connected to everything. Here, tools, artifacts, and rare finds get entangled through an intertwined web of cables, film stripes, and strings. A space where we find each other and craft our own ecosystem. A system in which we must learn to give space and listen to each other to build new connections and combinations that preserve the system. People can see and hear how this somehow chaotic, somehow organized structure works, sometimes in obvious manners, sometimes in hidden and encrypted ways. There is no way of understanding everything at once; it takes time to decipher, cable by cable, sound by sound.
A sonic installment by:
Ray Frey(CH)
Julia Shu (UKR)
Ai De Yang 楊愛德 (TW)
Piero Scherer (CH)
Drohnbandgerät – Fourfold for Eight
2023, 9 minutes, modular, 4-track tape-recorder, spazialised on 8 Speakers
Drohnbandgerät – Fourfold for Eight is the result of a collaborative work with a focus on reduction and dialogue. The starting material for the piece consists of gestural environmental recordings and contrasting harmonies, which are mixed live on a four-track cassette recorder. By coloring and filtering the resulting sound through a modular system, it becomes possible to influence the spatial shape. A concatenation that allows the performers and their instruments to merge into a system in which mutual influence is at the center.
The piece was presented at Lange Nacht – University of Arts in Zureich.
w. Manolo Müller
Written and produced:
Piero Scherer & Valentina Demichele
Mastered:
Isabel at Olo Mastering
Graphics:
Monelle Aimée Kanza
A&R:
André & N. Lange
Original Release:
Subject To Restrictions Discs
Distributed:
Bordello A Parigi
Generic Probe
2022 ZKM Karlsruhe, Modular, Tape, 8’
Generic Probe consists of prepared musical modules that are spontaneously added on stage in relation to the respective location. Thus, on a fixed basis, ever new variations of the piece are created, which are shaped by existing spatial characteristics and moods or atmospheres. »Generic Probe« forms a complete work that expresses sound as an experience in relation to a space and its present characteristics.
Bios Beneath Blind
Bios Beneath Blind is everywhere. Wherever life appears on the surface, thousands of lives have preceded unnoticed. These hidden realms are brought to light by the artist collective’s audio-visual installation placed within the darkness of the old Acla tunnel. An ode to the calm force of the microcosm, recorded and reconfigured by scientific and artistic means. Through tonal and visual abstraction, the resulting piece celebrates the cycle of life in its variety and raises awareness about the sensibility of the systems that surround us.
By scanning live images of microorganisms under the microscope, soundscapes were created based on rough parameters such as brightness, warmth of the image, and motion within the image. Within these soundscapes, the image was continuously scanned for subtle changes, leading to certain parameters in the sound being constantly altered.
Audio Installation
Scientific research:
Elena Eigenheer
Sebastian Nagelmüller
Video projection:
Matthias Signer
Sound:
Piero Scherer, Manolo Müller
– Art Safiental Program text (German)
Samaels Ladder
Samael ‹The Poison of God› is an archangel of Jewish and Christian mythology. In rabbinical Judaism, Samael is often equated with Satan. To show that only the heavenly world is sacred, he tries to bring down people by tempting them. The soundpiece Samael’s Ladder is a musical interpretation of the arduous rise of the fallen.
Visuals
Marc Jauslin
Music
Piero Scherer
Band and DJ-Collective consisting of Olaf Yarce (electronics), Elias Kalbermatten (keys) and Piero Scherer (electronics).