Performative Screenings #89

Tobias Koch
ROOM SERVICE

Sunday June 1, 7 pm
duration of performance 40 min
together with Independent Space Index 2025

The same afternoon, from 2–6 pm,
Chris Attila Izsák will be playing sound set #3 of SOUND AND SILENCE,
unfolding over the course of Independent Space Index
with #1 on Friday by school and #2 on Saturday by Brooklyn J. Pakathi.

Tobias Koch’s site-specific performances articulate the varying unseen auditory connections between space and sound. Koch’s digitally rendered compositions become amplified by the surrounding acoustic frequencies or architectural matter which develops in a series of live instrumentations by the artist. The audience’s perception shifts between listening and understanding the tangible spatial dimensions of the space throughout the performance’s duration. Leveraging improvisational techniques, he brings a musical focus to the physical environment in which the performance takes place. His approach results in a score that is distinctly anchored in a heightened visceral experience, shared by both Koch and the audience.

Tobias Koch is a Basel and Turin-based composer and sound artist working across performance, visual arts, film, and music. He exhibited and performed his work at Unsound Festival, Biennale Son, Leopold Museum Vienna, Palazzo delle Esposizioni Roma, Trauma Bar Berlin, Istituto Svizzero Roma, Centre Culturel Suisse Paris, and various institutions throughout Europe. He previously scored works presented at MoMA New York, documenta 14, Frieze Art Fair, Tate Modern, Centre Pompidou, Volksbühne Berlin, and others. His sound design and music compositions were featured in several award-winning films at Film Festival Cannes, Locarno Film Festival, IFFR Rotterdam, Berlinale, and Toronto International Film Festival. His latest score for the feature film Drii Winter (A Piece Of Sky) was awarded the Georges Delerue Award, and the film was Switzerland’s official submission to the Academy Awards 2023.