Frédéric D. Oberland Solo
Frédéric D. Oberland is a Paris-based composer, multi-instrumentalist and visual artist who explores the relationship between image and sound through an emotional approach. For over ten years he has been leading the collective OISEAUX-TEMPÊTE, which moves between avant-rock, free jazz, repetitive and electronic music. He is a founding member of FOUDRE!, Le Réveil des Tropiques and FareWell Poetry, as well as co-curator of the NAHAL Recordings label. He also performs solo and composes soundtracks for cinema and art installations.
For his live at KET, Frederic D. Oberland will play some very special A/V performance including extracts from Super8 material he’s working on alongside his upcoming first photobook to be published by Sun/Sun. His visual work is willingly itinerant, modulating between the ripples of dreams, watching the points of incandescence and the bursts of electricity that act as revelations of our presence in the world, here and now, its mystery and its blowup.
His music, with strong secular and ritualistic dimensions, has been described as:
🔹 “a veritable tempest that groans like a giant waking from slumber” (The Quietus / Rockfort)
🔹 “incising, incendiary, a feast of heavy synths and desert heat” (FreQ)
🔹 “a sonic quest resonating with the echoes of our contemporary chaos” (Cast The Dice)
🔹 “a journey that hooks you in and lures you to its overwhelming embrace time and time again”(Everything Is Noise)
Collaborating with a wide range of versatile talents (Jerusalem In My Heart, Irena Z. Tomazin, Mondkopf, Grégory Dargent / Tony Elieh & Wassim Halal, Saåad, Christine Ott, Richard Knox, Gaspar Claus, Bérangère Maximin…), his work and featurings have been released by international labels such as Sub Rosa, ZamZamRec, Hallow Ground, NAHAL Recordings, IIKKI, Gizeh Records, Miasmah, Constellation Records, Flau and Ruptured.
In 2022/2023, Frédéric D Oberland has been part of Creative Europe’s Shape + Platform for innovative music and audiovisual art.