Biografie
Born 1964 in Lucerne. Piano studies with Grazia Wendling at the Lucerne Conservatory. 1992–2000 sound technician at the Schauspielhaus Zurich. 2000–2005 responsible for lighting, sound and video at the Hochschule Musik und Theater Zurich (HMT), since 2005 research associate at the Institute for Computer Music and Sound Technology (ICST). Until 2020 member of the board and technical director of the Foundation Swiss Centre for Computer Music (SZCM). 2014 Master Contemporary Arts Practice (CAP) in Music and Media Arts at the HKB Bern, 2016 Master in Research on the Arts (MRA) at the University of Bern.
Active as a composer, sound engineer, concert organizer and software/hardware developer with a focus on electronic music, digital sound synthesis, computer music, live electronics and spatial sound processes. His artistic work includes sound installations for museum exhibitions, works and sound engineering for productions in the independent theatre scene, compositions for instruments / live electronics / fixed–media, performances.
Peter works on electroacoustic settings and the question of a spatial sound aesthetic that places the loudspeaker itself at the center. Standard settings of contemporary sound strategies do not play a role here. Rather, the focus is on media strategies that take the loudspeaker seriously as an independent instrument and mediator.
Publikationen / Diskografie / Ausstellungen / Werke
Schriften:
Färber, Peter / Kocher, Philippe: „The Mobile Ambisonics Equipment of the ICST“, in: Proceedings of the 2010 International Computer Music Conference, hrsg. v. ICMC, New York AND Stony Brook 2010, S. 207–210.
Färber, Peter: „Scherchens rotierender Nullstrahler (1959): "Idealer" Lautsprecher oder nur Effektgerät?“, in: Studies in the Arts - Neue Perspektiven auf Forschung über, in und durch Kunst und Design, hrsg. v. Thomas Gartmann u. Michaela Schäuble, Bielefeld: transcript Verlag 2021, Bd. 195, S. 113–136.
Färber, Peter: „The Rotation Loudspeaker in the Composition Un Certain Vertige by Antonio D’Amato“, 2021.
Färber, Peter / Pöpel, Annkathrin: „Kinetic Sound Sculpture: Sounding Influencer, a new Instrument with moving loudspeakers – further development of the underlying pendulum model“, in: Proceedings of the ICMC 2021, 2021, S. 27–32.
Akkermann, Miriam / Färber, Peter / Boller, Bettina / Gerster, Judith / Perifanova, Stefka / Tedde, Giorgio / Lee, Junghae / Seyedi, Elnaz / Tsiflidis, Helena: „Heldendämmerung: Elektronisches Kammermusikkonzert mit Klaviertrio, Live-Elektronik, quadrophonischem Lautsprechersetup und zwei bis drei mobilen Lautsprechern“, in: (2022), [17.1.2023].
Färber, Peter / Poepel, Annkathrin / Stoecklin, Angela: „Was It Really Just the Dress? Change in Sound through Motion: A Comparison of Subjective Auditory Perception and Measurable Acoustic Phenomena in Swinging Loudspeakers and Moving Body“, in: Proceedings of the 2024 International Computer Music Conference: July7, 2024–July 13, 2024, Seoul, South Korea, hrsg. v. Hong Tae Park, Tulane University, u. International Computer Music Association, Hanjang University, Seoul: The International Computer Music Association 2024, S. 134–137.
Färber, Peter / Tedde, Giorgio / Junghae Lee: „MOBILE LOUDSPEAKERS AS AN ALTER EGO“, in: Proceedings of the 2024 International Computer Music Conference: July7, 2024 –July 13, 2024, Seoul, South Korea, hrsg. v. Tae Hong Park, Tulane Dudas, u. International Computer Music Association, Hanjang University, Seoul: The International Computer Music Association 2024, S. 158–161.
Kurse:
Sound In Motion – Komponieren mit und für bewegte Lautsprecher, 2018-2024, https://blog.zhdk.ch/soundinmotion
Werke (Auszug):
Plus que rien (fixed media with ambisonics and discret channels for acousmonium) (2018)
https://neo.mx3.ch/t/1gBh
RK3 (for loudspeakers as loudspeakers and microphones) (2019)
https://youtu.be/IDFf1qjcunY
Meine Ruh ist hin (soprano, fixed media, 12 speakers, 8 of them are moving) (2014/2023)
https://neo.mx3.ch/t/1gAr