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Tobias Meier

Tobias Meier is a saxophonist and composer based in Zurich. He currently leads the ensemble Im Wald and he regularly plays and tours nationwide and internationally, for instance with Cold Voodoo (with bassist Silvan Jeger), with percussionist Norbert Pfammatter or singer Dalia Donadio. Tobias Meier has written and performed various works for solo saxophone. In addition, he is involved in long-term projects like Things to Sounds (with David Meier and Yves Theiler), as well as rather ephemeral constellations of experimental and improvised music. 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: „It is not enough for me, simply to make music“ (Jazz Aktuell, 24/02/2015). As organiser of the concert series Seismogram, 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 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.

(Berni Doessegger)

Since 2017 he is channelling all his projects as musician and organiser through the organisation Through States of Matter. Through States of Matter (TSOM) constitutes a collectivity of artistic output from musician Tobias Meier and his environment. TSOM provides musicians and artists with an open, integrative, free and real work platform. Here, the toad symbolises the enduring reality with which the volatile things of the spirit have to be connected, so that they do not fly away without ever embodying themselves. Via TSOM, ideas and visions are transformed, passing through aggregate states and eventually becoming flesh. The organisation TSOM adapts to the form of the respective artistic content, serving as a host, publisher, label and supporter in one.

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Tobias Meier: Interesting

Read "Interesting" reviewed by John Eyles


Saxophonist Tobias Meier has figured large in the short history of Alex Huber's Wide Ear Records; of the label's nineteen releases to date, Meier has now featured on nine of them--more than Huber himself. Interesting is the second of those nine on which Meier is credited as leader, fitting as he seems to have multi-tasked--composing, playing saxophone and other instruments, editing and producing. The recording is released on 10" vinyl, meaning that the playing time is less than nineteen minutes--maxi-single ...

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Tobias Meier, Marc Méan: Philippe & Paul

Read "Philippe & Paul" reviewed by Alberto Bazzurro


Le difficoltà iniziano dalla copertina: spacchettarla per trovarvi dentro l'oggetto è già impresa degna di miglior causa (per non parlare del reimpacchettamento...). Poi si capisce il meccanismo, e si va via un po' più sciolti. Intanto, però, si è messa mano (orecchio) al prodotto e le difficoltà si sono acuite. La musica contenuta in questo CD dei due giovani svizzeri Tobias Meier e Marc Méan, in effetti, non possiede alcun parametro che transiti nei pressi dei concetti ...

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Recordings: As Leader | As Sideperson

Interesting

Wide Ear Records
2016

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Orion

Wide Ear Records
2016

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Philippe & Paul

Wide Ear Records
2015

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Adumbration

Self Produced
2013

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Sottile

Wisconsin Union Theater
2012

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