Peter Philippe Weiss

About Peter Philippe Weiss

Peter Philippe Weiss, born 1962 in Basel, acts as a designer in sound projects, composer, sound artist, and lecturer. Since 1994 he runs his company Corporate Sound AG. In 2009 Corporate Sound AG was awarded by the red dot design award for sound branding and since 2013 Peter Philippe Weiss is member of the red dot design award jury.

At the age of nine, Peter Philippe Weiss began a 10-year training in classical violin. His keen interest in new musical developments made him learn the following additional instruments as an autodidact: acoustic and electric guitar, electric bass, drums/percussion, and piano/keyboards. He played these instruments in various bands and musical formations, such as Canadian performance band, The Look People. Together with this band he performed at St. Gallen Open-Air, CBGB’s in New York, and the ‚Diamonds‘ in Toronto.

In 1994 Peter Philippe Weiss founded Corporate Sound AG, thereby creating the first professional communication agencies for acoustic branding. Today, the sound branding agency from Basel attends to national and international clients in all applications of sound: from multi-channel soundscapes for exhibitions and trade shows, sound productions for electronic media and the transformation of the corporate identity of a company into the acoustic dimension with a corporate sound. ((expired link))

In 2002 he composed and realized the CD "zen jazz" - a contemplative Jazz-Lounge CD. 2005 Peter Philippe Weiss realized an artistic public space sound installation in the middle of Basel’s town centre, consisting of 16 different sound sources, and with the power of about 20'000 Watts, incorporating new spaces into the existing sound environment with highly realistic soundscapes. Two years later, on the occasion of the 2. Hörforum of Osnabrück University, he made sound to emerge from the sewers of Osnabrück’s Marktplatz and one year later in Basel’s city center in an installation called unterwelten (underworlds). ((expired link))

In 2008 Weiss wrote the score for the feature film MANIPULATION starring Klaus-Maria Brandauer und Sebastian Koch (film started February 2011). (expired link)

In the same year, he realized "mindgames" as a solo performer consisting of spoken word and musical soundscapes at Basel’s Imprimerie. 2015 he continues this cross-medial art and performance project as TRÄUMER (dreamer) (expired link).