The cultural capital of Europe 2014 was the Swedish city Umeå. The Berlin based company Phase7 produced the opening ceremony for both a live audience of 50’000 people and television broadcast. The setting was a 180m large stage on the frozen river Umeåälven. Silas Bieri worked out the audio distribution concept, supervised and operated the sound of the show and broadcast.
Guidly is a Sweden based company producing location based storytelling apps. From city guides to adventure stories.
PAX by Åsa Larsson and Ingela Korsell is a well known Swedish adventure story for young people. Guidly produced a location based app for this story, for the Swedish edition house Bonnier Carlsen. Silas from in-discourse composed and produced the music for the nonlinear sounddesign that has been implemented and produced by guidly.
Silas Bieri has been working with the German choreographer Raimund Hoghe in Centre Pompidou in Paris, consulting the audio creation of the piece “La Valse”. The piece is centered around different historic situations of migration in Europe and music is the major dramaturgical element in the show. Under the direction of Raimund Hoghe, Silas researched and edited the often historic recordings of valses and produced the soundtrack for the piece. In the same time he engineered the sound for the premiere week at Centre Pompidou.
Silas has been working with Raimund Hoghe for over 15 years.
in-discourse studios made it possible for Swiss band, Dream Pilot to film while recording in a multitude of rooms, large enough for everyone to work concentrated. The Swiss indie band used our facilities for recording and filming a documentary about the band, as well as videoclips for the Album Afterglow. The residency was made possible by Miro Rutscho / in-discourse and Swiss filmmaker Dersu Huber.
