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Peter Philippe Weiss
| born in/on: | basel, october 2nd, 1962 |
| 1971 - 1983 | studied classical violin |
| 1978 - 1982 | 4-year apprenticeship as television and radio electronics engineer |
| 1979 - 1984 | violinist with the classical orchestra of the Baselland Youth Music Academy
performing at concerts in Switzerland and abroad autodidactic study of guitar, bass, percussion, and keyboards |
| 1984 - 1986 | worked for Swiss Radio DRS as sound engineer for DRS 2 |
| 1986 - 1991 | worked for the sound studio of Radio Basilisk. as sound engineer and producer,
production manager for spoken and music recordings for advertising, radio plays,
radio jingles, and film music performing as musician with several bands (git, bs, keyb): Bi-Kids, Duure Duure, Kind of Cover, acid jazz concerts, public jam sessions with ADN, Sense-Unike, d’Schmiir, etc. |
| 1987 - 1988 | guest musician (keyb/viol) with 'THE LOOK PEOPLE, a Canadian show band with tours in Europe, the U.S., and Canada (a.o. St Gall Open-Air, 'CBGB's' in New York, 'Diamonds' in Toronto) |
| 1979 - 1984 | realization of the musical project 'Eine musikalische Reise durch die Pariser Métro’ [A Musical Trip Through the Paris Metro]', recordings in Paris und Basel, special award at the national MANOR Art Competition |
| 1991 | freelance work as composer and producer in the fields of music, film music, and sound design concert series with ‘Bistro d’ histoire’, a musical-tale band performing at a former cinema in Basel and concert series with ‘Zzzip... ooOh?!?’, a music comix band (live radio play), in Bienne and Basel, Switzerland |
| 1994 | Founding Corporate Sound AG, a sound agency for sound branding and sound design projects.(www.corporate-sound.com) |
| 1996 | Beeing speaker in different Coferences (Sound-Design Forum, Centre Pomidu, Paris, Radioday Köln etc.) and guest lector in high schools and universitie (FH Offenburg, ZHW, HTC, Desgin School Biel etc.). |
| 1997 | ART ’97, Basel: live performance with cinematographic 3D musicscapes |
| 1998 / 1999 | creation and production of “Musicomix 1” (CD) |
| 2002 / 2003 | composition and production of “zen jazz” (Music CD) www.zenjazz.com |
| 2005 | HEADROOM: Establishing a Sound installation in the middle of the City Basel with 120 Loudspeakers, 24 Sound channels and a power of more than 30’000 watts. |
| 2006 | Two Sound installations at the LICHT FELD 6 Exhibition during the ART’Basel’06 A 16 channel DJ-Soundscape-Lounge and a 8 channel sound installation behind a closed door. |
| 2006 | Bodega CD: An acoustic portrait of a one-of-a-kind restaurant on Barfüsserplatz in Basel. A portrait, moreover, that captures with original sounds of the Bodega restaurant an authentic and vivid "picture" of the mood of this place. |
| 2007 | HEADROOM at LICHT FELD 7 art exhibition: An 8 channel sound installation in a air-raid shelter |
| 2008 | ‘unterwelten’ – By invitation of the university of Osnabrück for the 2. Hörforum: For three days the 'underworlds' where hearable out of the drainers of
the Osnabrück market place. MINDGAMES – a live solo performance as music story teller in the Imprimerie Basel telling 13 music stories. Supported by light designer Heinz Schäublin and video artist Carlos Poete. |
| 2009 | ‘unterwelten’ Basel, In co-operation with the Association of Hard Of Hearing Individuals in Basel. Sound worlds are sounding out of the drainers in the center of Basel City.Film score for cinema movie MANIPULATION with Klaus-Maria Brandauer and Sebastian Koch in the main casts. Film start October 2010. |