Janiv Oron

Biography

BIO - Janiv Oron (1975, IL/CH)
is a media artist and DJ. He is a member of the Goldfinger Brothers, performer, composer of experimental electronic music and active in different formations. Received a master’s degree in Contemporary Arts Practice, Music and Media Art at Hochschule der Künste in Bern (Bern University of Arts). He fosters an independent artistic outlook set within a framework of collective and interdisciplinary working relationships. These experiments result in creations of audiovisual art. Focussing on the development of timbre and texture, Oron creates forward thinking ambient spheres, that give an insight in his improvisatory sensibility and dig deep into the potentials of modular synthesis. For a good twenty years now, at home and abroad, at DJ battles, club nights, concerts, open-airs and parades, as well as catching him over the airwaves. Whizz-kid in a word, he launched several successful party series and had his own show on Swiss Radio SRF Virus to boot. Indefatigably, he hunts down the listening experience of acousmatic music. Janiv Oron lives and works in Basel.

Some of his projects include: Contemporary Istanbul, Öktem Aykut Gallery (2022); Hotel der Zuversicht, Text-to-Speech Opera with Michael Fehr (2022); Kunsttage Basel; Space 25 (2022); Im Flow: Basel Sinfonietta (2022); EASEL Album Release on LOOD (2022); 100 ways to say we: Architecture Biennale Venice (2021); Nine Narrative Poems: Pilz Welle Lust Art Space (2022); Pimpinela Loops: KBHG Kulturstiftung Basel H. Geiger (2021); Missa in tempore belli: Nationale Opera & Ballet Amsterdam (2021); OEOA: Kunsttage Basel, Galerie Knoell (2021); CNSMDP: Conservatoire Paris (2021); Diorama: KlangBasel (2021); Becoming More Than Human: Roxy Theater Basel (2020); Dreamhouse: Kammerorchester Basel (2020); Visitors: Ausstellungsraum Klingental Basel (2020); Theatrum festival: Novaya Tretyakovka Gallery Moscow (2020); Apples and Olives Festival: Casino Bern and Moods Zürich (2020); Internationales Lyrikfestival Basel (2020); End of Future exhibition: La Tallera, Cuernavaca, Mexico (2019); El Amor Brujo Opera: Teatro Arriaga Bilbao (2019); Nachtstrom: Gare Du Nord Basel (2019); They Shoot Horses, Don’t They?: Neumarkt Theater Zürich (2019); Henry Purcell: Dido and Aeneas Opera, Teatro Arriaga Bilbao (2019); Oto Nové Swiss: Cafe Oto, London (2019); Lawinen: Kinesthetic Sound Sculpture, Alpines Museum Bern (2019); Im Spiegel: Composition for SRF DOK Movie (2019); Artist in Residence: Landis & Gyr London (2018); Studio Cabaret Voltaire: Tempo Festival, Rio de Janeiro (2018); Studies for one Disklavier piano II: Cabaret Voltaire Zürich (2018); Crossroads: cultural exchange programme with Cairo, Geneva & Basel (2018); Nachtklang: with Kammerorchester, Michael Fehr und Ballet Basel (2018); Das Jacob Burkhardt Katzenstück: Kaserne Basel (2018); In A World of Endless Rainfall: Johannes Willi & Friends, E-Werk Freiburg (2018); Don Pasquale Opera: Ring Award - Schauspielhaus Graz (2017); Blank Spot: Scapino Ballet Rotterdam (2017); Being Frank Pedersen: Theater Basel (2017); Orfeo Opera: Teatro Arriaga Bilbao (2017); Interface: Théâtre du Passage Neuchâtel (2017); Swiss Art Awards (2016); Menuhin Festival Gstaad (2016); Soundclash: Basel Sinfonietta in collaboration with HeK (2016); Sources Of Uncertainty: Centre Pasquart, Biel (2015); The 2nd Great Gutter: Die Diele, Zürich (2015)

Awards/Residency/Grants: Fachausschuss Musik BS/BL (2022); Pro Helvetia, work-in-progress grant (2021); Premio Ercilla de Teatro Award: Dido & Aeneas Opera @Teatro Arriaga, Bilbao (2019); Artist in Residence: Landis & Gyr Stiftung, London (2018); Ring Award: Don Pasquale Opera, Direction Barbora Horáková-Joly, Graz (2017); Cairo Residency: Pro Helvetia & DEZA "crossroads" a cultural exchange programme with Cairo (2017); Swiss Nightlife Award: Top 3 Nominee | Goldfinger Brothers (2017); Leipziger Hörspielsommer: Bestes Klangbild (2016); Swiss Art Awards (2016); sonOhr Hörfestival: Nomination „Kreisende Fragmente eines Datendiebes“ (2016) Schweizer Tanzpreis with miR Companie (2015); Team DJ Battle Swiss Champion (2002, 2001); Switzerland Best Club DJ (2001); Switzerland Best Technical DJ (2000); DMC Vice-Swiss Champion (1998)