ARTIST BIO

Vera Weber is a composer and interdisciplinary artist whose work moves through themes of nature, existentialism, capitalism, and feminism, tracing how systems of power inscribe themselves onto the body and environment. Working between sound and image, she creates hybrid audiovisual works that blur the boundaries between the organic and the constructed, forming immersive worlds that reflect on agency, consumption, and resistance.

Rooted in Western art music, her compositional language extends into electroacoustic and conceptual forms. She works with prepared piano, extended techniques on orchestral instruments, voice, electronics, and field recordings, often transforming these materials through time-stretching, layering, and spectral processes. Analog filmmaking and photography are central to her work, unfolding alongside sound as parallel, interdependent forms within a shared temporal space.

Weber studied at the California Institute of the Arts in the Performer-Composer program, where she attended on scholarship and worked closely with Vicki Ray, with whom she continues to collaborate on multi-keyboard works. Her debut album a soft lunacy for two prepared pianos and electronics was released by Orenda Records.

In 2023, she composed Abstractions from The Book of Hours, a 40-minute song cycle for electric guitar and voice based on the poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke, commissioned and performed by Nicholas Deyoe and Stephanie Aston.

As a pianist and harpsichordist, she has performed with the Ensemble at CalArts, including as a featured soloist in Schnittke’s Concerto Grosso alongside Andrew McIntosh and Andrew Tholl; the world premiere of a composition by John Cage written for James Tenney; a prepared piano and ensemble work by Michelle Lou conducted by Christopher Rountree; performances with Pak Nyoman Wenten and Burat Wangi; harpsichord recordings in the style of Indian classical music for Eyvind Kang; recording Eve Beglarian’s Fireside for piano and spoken word; and performing live with Alvin Lucier.

Her practice spans alt-pop, indie, ambient, rock, folk, baroque, contemporary classical, experimental music, and free improvisation. As a recording and performing artist, she appears in spaces ranging from DIY venues to stages such as Carnegie Hall, Zipper Hall, REDCAT, and The Troubadour, and has toured internationally in China and Mexico. Alongside her own projects, she produces albums for other artists and writes songs.