Fluid by design.
Our instrumentation changes with each work, shaped through close dialogue between composers and performers. There is no fixed format—only a commitment to music that is direct, perceptible, and alive.
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Seasonal concert · landscape
Zurich · Violin · Piano · New music
Music happens
in the middle.
O-POINT creates shared origins—where composer, performer, space, and listener meet at one exact point.
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The circle we inhabit
The O is the audience.
The point is the music.
O-POINT is a contemporary music ensemble dedicated to co-creation with composers.
Each project begins with a shared theme. Across the season, we work with several composers to develop new pieces from the ground up. One idea unfolds into distinct musical expressions—each offering a different way of listening, perceiving, and experiencing sound.
Made to be experienced.
We approach contemporary music not as something to decode, but as something to experience. Sound moves through space and expands through visuals, movement, and installation, forming immersive environments in which the audience becomes part of the perceptual field.
Beyond the concert hall.
We create performances in many kinds of spaces, adapting each work to its context and exploring new modes of encounter. Each season marks a new beginning.
Performance imageO-POINT
Artist portraitO-POINT
Each season.
A new beginning.
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Seasonal concerts · 2027
Next season · In development
Disappearing
A new O-POINT concert season tracing how sound, memory, people, and places move out of view—and what they become within us.
Working question
If something transforms, has it really disappeared?
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Feeling
From beside us to something within us.
A motif changes register, timbre, distance, and space. Its form disappears while its feeling remains.
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Transformation
How many iterations before the origin is lost?
Disappearance and transformation are distinct, yet coupled actions. The inquiry is not only what is lost, but where change can lead.
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Social presence
Who disappears while the city continues?
We listen with people at work—in offices, restaurants, and homes—to hear what different spaces offer, and whose presence usually escapes attention.
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Attention
Private or public. Sound or noise. Remembered or forgotten.
Musical layers enter and leave; others are shifted, camouflaged, or simply forgotten. Some are kept alive just long enough for us to witness them disappear.
Dates
To be announcedVenues
To be announcedProgramme & artists
Details forthcomingThese questions form the beginning—not the conclusion. The programme, collaborators, dates, and places will appear here as the season resolves into view.
Follow the season“We do not just play pieces. We create the exact point
where composer, performer, and listener meet.”
O-POINT · Music in the Middle
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Evidence of resonance
Captured moments,
still moving.
Recordings, fragments, and spatial experiments that have defined our search for the origin.
Spatial workO-POINT
Performance detailO-POINT
Site studyO-POINT
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Gallery · selected moments
A quiet place
for images.
Performances, people, details, and spaces. The collection can grow naturally as new photographs arrive.
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Process or portrait · vertical
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An open invitation
To the
composer.
We do not seek finished scores; we seek the point of origin.
Bring us the question before it becomes an answer. Together we can test acoustic possibilities, spatial electronics, audience relationships, and the architecture of breath.
Enter the laboratory