About
Tobias Koch (*1986, Basel) is a composer and sound artist working across performance, visual arts, film, and music production. His site-specific performances articulate the varying unseen auditory connections between space and sound. Koch’s digitally rendered compositions become amplified by the surrounding acoustic frequencies or architectural matter which develops in a series of live instrumentations by the artist. The audience's perception shifts between listening and understanding the tangible spatial dimensions of the space throughout the performance’s duration. Leveraging improvisational techniques, he brings a musical focus to the physical environment in which the performance takes place. His approach results in a score that is distinctly anchored in a heightened visceral experience, shared by both Koch and the audience.
Tobias exhibited and performed his work at Unsound Festival, Biennale Son, Serralves Museum Porto, and various institutions throughout Europe.
He scored works presented at MoMA New York, documenta 14, Venice Biennale, Tate Modern, Swiss Institute New York, Festival d’Avignon and others. His sound design and film scores were featured in several award-winning works presented at various film festivals such as Film Festival Cannes, Berlinale, Locarno Film Festival, TIFF, or CPH:DOX. His latest score for the feature film Drii Winter (A Piece Of Sky) was awarded the Georges Delerue Award, and the film was Switzerland’s official submission to the Academy Awards 2023.
About
Tobias Koch (*1986, Basel) is a composer and sound artist working across performance, visual arts, film, and music production. His site-specific performances articulate the varying unseen auditory connections between space and sound. Koch’s digitally rendered compositions become amplified by the surrounding acoustic frequencies or architectural matter which develops in a series of live instrumentations by the artist. The audience's perception shifts between listening and understanding the tangible spatial dimensions of the space throughout the performance’s duration. Leveraging improvisational techniques, he brings a musical focus to the physical environment in which the performance takes place. His approach results in a score that is distinctly anchored in a heightened visceral experience, shared by both Koch and the audience.
Tobias exhibited and performed his work at Unsound Festival, Biennale Son, Serralves Museum Porto, and various institutions throughout Europe.
He scored works presented at MoMA New York, documenta 14, Venice Biennale, Tate Modern, Swiss Institute New York, Festival d’Avignon and others. His sound design and film scores were featured in several award-winning works presented at various film festivals such as Film Festival Cannes, Berlinale, Locarno Film Festival, TIFF, or CPH:DOX. His latest score for the feature film Drii Winter (A Piece Of Sky) was awarded the Georges Delerue Award, and the film was Switzerland’s official submission to the Academy Awards 2023.