​b. 1978 — Lives & works in Paris, Europa

Composer & multi-instrumentalist, photographer & visual artist, Frédéric D. Oberland finds himself at the crossroads of image and sound, favoring a synesthetic approach. A former student at La Fémis film school, he started making experimental films in Super8 and video at the beginning of the 2000s before embracing a musical career.. His artistic practice explore perception and time, creating transdisciplinary experiences shaped by reflections on the human condition, the visible and the invisible, and our relationship to nature, myth, and civilization. 

For over ten years, Frédéric D. Oberland has been leading the OISEAUX-TEMPÊTE collective, somewhere between avant-rock and free jazz, repetitive music and electronics. A founding member of the unclassifiable groups FOUDRE!, Le Réveil des Tropiques & FareWell Poetry, he's also performing ritualistic solo and composing soundtracks for cinema and contemporary art. His music often emerges from a state of immersion— long forms that stretch, accumulate, and break open, echoing both geological processes and collective urgencies which reveals a constant search for thresholds, where noise, melody, and silence become indistinguishable currents. Frédéric D. Oberland has collaborated with a wide range of talents including versatile musicians (Radwan Ghazi Moumneh / ​Jerusalem In My Heart, Mondkopf, Saåad & Aidan Baker, Irena Z. Tomazin, Grégory Dargent, Tony Elieh & Wassim Halal, Christine Ott, Arnaud Fournier, Eightycuts, Virus2020, Aya Metwalli, Charbel Haber, Sharif Sehnaoui, Gareth Davis, Richard Knox, Gaspar Claus, Bérangère Maximin), film & video makers (Ala Eddine Slim, Camille Degeye, Grégoire Couvert & Grégoire Orio, Faye Formisano, Araceli Lemos, Augustin Gimel, Ho Tzu Nyen, François-Xavier Drouet), photographers & visual artists (David Fathi, Fanny Béguély, Marco Godinho, Gael Bonnefon, Stéphane Charpentier & Temps Zéro ), writers & poets (Christophe Manon, Mathilde Girard, G.W.Sok, Jayne Amara Ross, Hugues Jallon).

His visual and musical contributions have been released on labels & publishing houses such as Sun/Sun, Constellation Records, Sub Rosa, NAHAL Recordings, ZamZamRec, Hallow Ground, IIKKI, Editions Le Mulet, Gizeh Records, Miasmah, Flau, Music Fear Satan, Les Inaperçus, Ruptured, Consouling Sounds. Since 2018, Frédéric D. Oberland is co-curating the avant-garde imprint NAHAL Recordings. In 2022/2023, he is part of Shape + Platform for innovative music and audiovisual art / Creative Europe program. 

Artist in residence 2024/2025 at La Kabine - Centre de l'Image in Arles then in 2025/2026 at MISC in Athens, he is currently working with Céline Pévrier and Sun/Sun éditions on his first photo-book "Vestiges du Futur / Vestiges of the Future". Covering more than a decade of psychedelic wanderings and visual premonitions in 35mm and Super8, this monograph features contributions from writers and poets and captures the sensation of a close call — that flash where life appears all at once, as a flood of hallucinated visions in a trembling world, a quantum space and time in which past, present, and projected futures merge into one continuous, shifting timeline.

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