Tobias Meier

TM is a composer and saxophonist based in Zurich. He currently leads the artist group Through States of Matter, he regularly plays internationally, for instance with Cold Voodoo, with singer Dalia Donadio or his ensemble Im Wald. TM has written and performed various works for solo saxophone, as well as composed music for contemporary music ensembles and performed multiple scenic sound-performances. 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: 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. As organiser of the concert series Seismogram, as co-founder of Wide Ear Records and as editor of a zine for musicians, 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.