Felix Profos FORCEMAJEURE

Vera Kappeler piano, harmonium
Raphael Camenisch saxophones
Sebastian Pottmeier saxophones
Christian Weber contrabass
John Eckhardt contrabass
Lucas Niggli drums
Felix Profos composition, keyboards

Die Musik für FORCEMAJEURE ist äusserlich fast konventionell und eingängig - zugleich aber ebenso kompromisslos wie Profos' frühere Kompositionen etwa für Steamboat Switzerland oder das Ensemble MAE.
Übersichtlich und klar (oft nur Melodie und Begleitung), tonal, meist ruhig und sogar schön; jedes äusserliche Extrem, jede äusserliche Originalität wird vermieden.
Das ist weit weit weg von "Neuer Musik" - und ebenso weit von "Jazz". Wenn etwas nahe ist, dann scheinbar: Satie, Schubert, Pop oder Filmmusik, Schostakowitsch, "erfundene Volksmusik", so von fern herangeweht.
Die Kompositionen sind mit grossem Ernst geschrieben - in "gutem altem Handwerk". Um so mehr scheint das Defekte durch, das Linkische und Verlorene.

Premiere: 10.3. - 14.3.2010 (see concerts)

THE SOUND OF INSECTS – Record of a Mummy
A Film by Peter Liechti

Peter Liechti received the European Documentary Film Award, Prix ARTE 2009 for The Sound of Insects. Norbert Möslang, who made the soundtrack (containing excerpts of Signal Quintet live recordings), now won the Swiss Film Music Award 2010.

Jazzwerkstatt Bern
Festival Sampler 2009

Among some interesting and funny and interesting contributions I'm on two selections. One with Marc Stucki (sax) and Norberte Pfammatter (dr) and another with Nicolas Masson's Parallels.

Matin Baumgartner's SPIELHUUS

Veto Records 007

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Sudden Infant
My Life's A Gunshot (1989-2009) - Vol. I & II

Hrönir hr8909 2x2LP

20 Year retrospective of Joke Lanz's Sudden Infant project, released on 4 LP's housed in 2 fullcolour gatefold-covers, featuring paintings by Joke Lanz, and an essay about S.I. by G.X. Jupitter-Larsen. Limited Edition of 500 copies. Mastered & cut by Rashad Becker at D+M, designed by Bill Kouligas.

These two double LP's combine 49 rare and unreleased tracks as well as some of Sudden Infant's most essential and radical work from the last twenty years. Beautifully housed in two fold-out double LP's with original cover paintings by Joke Lanz and an exclusive 4-page essay by GX Jupitter-Larsen.

I'm very proud and happy to appear on a few selections on volume II. Joke's impact as a musician and friend was and still is precious to me.

Peer Seemann
Partenza

Peersound

Christian Reiner voice
Christian Weber double bass

Recorded live @ Garnisongasse Vienna, July 27 2009

Special thanks to Jörg (video) and Peter (sound).

BigVeto
100valli

Veto Records 006

Christoph Erb tenor saxophone, bass clarinet
Achim Escher alto saxophone
Vincent Membrez pro-one
Yves Reichmuth electric guitar
Christian Weber double bass, electric bass
Julian Sartorius drums

Recorded live @ Meridiani Lucerne, October 21/22 2008

Fini Foto
Theatre Performance

Dschungel, Vienna (A)

Claudia Mayer, Christian Reiner & Christian Weber

Dropp Ensemble
Safety

either/OAR either/2

Salvatore Dellaria
Adam Sonderberg
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Olivia Block trumpet
Steven Hess percussion
Jason Kahn analogue synth
Ilja Komarov electric bass
Tomas Korber treatment
Brian Labycz computer
Eric Lanzillotta moog
Joseph Mills electronics and devices
Jon Mueller percussion and cassettes
Jason Soliday open circuits
Jason Stein bass clarinet
Brendan Walls electronics
Christian Weber contrabass

In 2003 Dellaria/Sonderberg founded, and co-direct Dropp Ensemble (pronounced "drope" - Swedish for 'drip feed') which consists of an international grouping of musicians and technicians that work together in person or through the mail. The materials are pooled, and undergo extensive production and editing by the duo.

Roberto Domeniconi >>Vierklang
Raumzeit

Unit Records UTR 4210

Roberto Domeniconi piano
Peter Schärli trumpet
Christian Weber double bass
Norbert Pfammatter drums

Recorded live August 20, 2006 at Dampfzentrale Bern by Peter Pfister

Dead Peni
2-4+1

Blossoming Noise BN040CD

This is the first full length release from Dead Peni. Electric bass, a drum-machine, voice and backing tapes, as well as live drum contributions from Christian Weber. Includes full length record with bonus track in the form of a music video. Heavy sounds from the underground. Edition of 300.

Walter & Sabrina/
Dietrich Eichmann Ensemble
Demons

Danny Dark Records DD1148 [2 CD set]

Composed and performed by

Stephen Moore voice & lyricist
Walter Cardew guitar & voice
Celia Lu soprano voice & harmonium
Dietrich Eichmann piano & harpsichord
Gunnar Brandt-Sigurdsson voice & electronics
Michael Griener percussion
Alexander Frangenheim double bass
Christian Weber double bass

Recorded May 13-15, 2008 at Vivaldi Saal, Berlin.

Jason Kahn
Timelines NY

Conv 050

Jason Kahn composition, live mix
Tomas Korber guitar, electronics
Norbert Möslang cracked everyday electronics
Günter Müller ipod's, electronics
Christian Weber contrabass
Tim Barnes percussion

Recorded May 15, 2007 at Issue Project Room, Brooklyn, New York.
Duration: 120 minutes

Available for download here.

Christian Weber
Walcheturm Solo

Cut 025

Christian Weber contrabass

Recorded in the resonant halls of the Zürich art space Walcheturm, Weber takes advantage of the rich room acoustics, drawing on his sense of place to create a work not only focused on sound but imbued with a narrative drive which will leave the listener enthralled from beginning to end.

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Sudden Infant
Psychotic Einzelkind

Blossoming Noise BN036CD

Joke Lanz vocals, electronics
Bill Kouligas electronics, percussion
Christian Weber electric bass

Psychotic Einzelkind is an exploding kaleidoscope, an acoustical Rorschach inkblot test, of psychotic sounds and noises. Sudden Infant as a trio delivers a strong and extensive album without any boundaries and limits.
Features three remixes by Z'EV, Lasse Marhaug, & Thurston Moore.

Recorded 2007 at Rashad Becker's studio in Berlin Kreuzberg.
Cover design by Allon Kaye.

A while ago Adam Sonderberg and Salvatore Dellaria invited me to contribute some material for the new Dropp Ensemble record that will be released on and/OAR later this year.
Since I sent way too much material to Chicago, Adam had the idea to use some of it for a track they produced for their ongoing project.

untitled -> ongoing: week 6
composed, performed, assembled, and mixed on 26 january 2008
by salvatore dellaria / adam sonderberg
w/ christian weber, contrabass

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Signal Quintet & Yamauchi
Signal to Noise Vol. 4

For4Ears 1866

Jason Kahn analog synth, percussion
Tomas Korber guitar, electronics
Norbert Möslang cracked everyday-electronics
Günter Müller ipod, percussion, electronics
Christian Weber bass
Katsura Yamauchi saxophone

The Signal Quintet met saxophonist Kastura Yamauchi for two days of recording and performance at the Yamaguchi Center for Arts and Media.
These two pieces recorded from the studio sessions shine not only for their precise and unyielding focus but for the sheer joy the players reveal in these tracks, at times approaching the energy of free jazz.

Mersault
Raymond & Marie

formed 07

Tomas Korber guitar, electronics
Christian Weber bass
Christian Wolfarth percussion

Mersault's second album works by undermining expectations, shifting the foreground to the background and back again. A nominally placid passage contains a busy roughness that, without any overt moment of transition, characterizes the moment in question. Similarly, passages of resonant double bass emerge from rough, bracing chunks of sound, dropping after a while into parallel coexistence with electronic drone and muted percussion.

I'm very happy and proud to present my completely overworked and newly structured website. This was made possible with a lot of support and patience by Adi Aicher. Enjoy!

Korber/Weber/Yamauchi
Signal to Noise Vol. 2

For4Ears 1864

Tomas Korber guitar, electronics
Christian Weber bass
Katsura Yamauchi saxophone

Second volume of the ‚Signal To Noise‘ series with recordings from the 2006 tour in Japan and Korea.
Here two third of the group Mersault collaborate with saxophonist Katsura Yamauchi, yielding a highly concentrated music of fine particles and wispy noise.

Recorded at Yamaguchi Center for Arts and Media.