The Swiss sound artist and musician Simon Grab (born in 1971) is constantly exploring new terrain. In his most recent works, he focuses on the reduction and distinctiveness of self-referential sound systems. The album Posthuman Species follows his recent EP Extinction for -OUS records. His Diamonds EP in collaboration with Togolese rapper Yao Bobby and Dhangsha’s Asian Dub Foundation is released on Bristol’s LavaLava Records and was chosen as one of the 2019 Albums of the Year by The Quietus magazine. Simon Grab’s recent work includes Hirnmusik 1 & 2.

As a composer and sound artist he produces music and sound design for feature films, documentaries, theatre and radio. In live performances and installations Simon Grab uses locations as ‘acoustic playgrounds’.

In addition to his work as a musician, he is part of the NORIENT team (Advisory Board), a network for the promotion, exchange and brokering of music and culture, which deals with issues of globalisation and digitisation for a wide international audience.

Grab is also co-founder of the MOTHERLAND collective based in Zurich and part of the Motherland Sound System, which has been presenting urban sounds from transnational and globalised music scenes around the world since 2007.

Simon Grab is a lecturer at the ZHDK University of the Arts in Zurich, teacher and project manager at the klipp and klang Radioschule and teaches at the School for Audio Engineering SAE in Zurich. He also worked at the Institute for Cultural Studies ICS as a research associate.

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Sleeping Concert
2021 Edition
01.10 – 10.10