Oliver Grimm (*1978, Klagenfurt)

lives in Tokyo, married to the Koto-virtuoso Chieko Mori.
He studied computer music at the university of Vienna and was a member of FABRICA (Benetton Art Research Center) in Treviso from 2002-03. From 2007-10 he taught computer music at the Tokyo University of the Arts.

SHIOSAI (2015, 4-channel, 10min)
“The Thunder of the Surge” is based on the novel of the same name by Mishima Yukio.
In it, Oliver Grimm uses spectral analyses of a koto solo by Chieko Mori and applies the resulting scales to synthetic material and water noise.

MUTSUMARU (2020/21, 3-channel, 20min)
The sounds of a city – the traffic, its people, the construction and destruction of buildings – is contrasted with the rhythm of breathing. The geometric characteristics of the sound material are translated and transposed into the spatial and time structure.

source: private material by the composer