Ramón Oliveras

I’m a Swiss musician, composer, producer and multi-media-artist currently living in Zurich. As a queer artist I aspire to question norms, use my privileges to help promote community and continuously evolve my queer practice. I’m the artistic director and drummer of the internationally recognized indie groove jazz quintet Ikarus and part of the queer indie rock trio Dalai Puma. These projects and my upcoming album, a drum solo piece exploring the non-dualistic state of life/death, reflects my philosophy: “It’s not our revolution if we can’t dance!” My enthusiasm for exploration is one of my core traits and extends to numerous side projects, including the contemporary Opera “Mitosis – an LSD-Opera”, a ritual performance-duo with Kim de l’Horizon, the speculative fiction audio play “1 Ich A,”, and co-organizing the unconference Utopieverdacht. I am also very passioned in linking activism and the music business. I studied jazz drumming and later classical contemporary composition, both at the Zurich University of Arts.