Rahel Zimmermann
Composer, Sound Designer, Sound Editor, Location Sound Mixer, Location Sound Mixer
- Website
- www.rahelzimmermann.com
Born in 1988 in Glarus, Switzerland. Bachelor's degree in architecture at ETH Zurich. Studies in composition and theory with a focus on composition for film, theater and media with Peter Scherer and Germán Toro Pérez, Master's degree in May 2019.
Receiver of a Hans Streiff Foundation scholarship in 2018 and the Christoph Delz Foundation Werkjahr for 2020. In 2021/22 she was a Junior Fellow at the Collegium Helveticum with the project Listening to Changing Shapes, an investigation of the perception of complex moving shapes in auditory space.
She won the Special Award for the Most Atmospheric Soundtrack at the Upcoming Filmmakers Festival in Lucerne in 2016 for BEI WIND UND WETTER, and the Best Original Music Award for the short LA REINE DES RENARDS at the Annecy Festival in 2022. She works as a composer, scoring films, theater and installations, writing instrumental pieces and creating acousmatic works, always with a special interest in spatialization.
Filmography
(a selection)
Location Sound Mixer
- 2016
- Seelenwelten by Flurina Gutmann
Composer
- 2025
- Groppos Garten by Cécile Brun
- 2024
- Abhang by Marcel Scheible
- 2024
- Hanami by Denise Fernandes
- 2024
- Milchzähne by Sophia Bösch
- 2023
- La última subida by Remo Scherrer
- 2022
- Skies by Rebekka Friedli, Nathalie Kamber
- 2022
- La reine des renards by Marina Rosset
- 2019
- No Promised Land by Raphael Bondy
- 2018
- Coyote by Lorenz Wunderle
- 2018
- Concrete by Pirmin Bieri, Luca Struchen, Aira Joana, Nicolas Roth
- 2018
- Rich Kid by Flurina Gutmann
- 2016
- Bei Wind und Wetter by Remo Scherrer
- 2016
- Seelenwelten by Flurina Gutmann
- 2015
- Procedere: by Delia Schiltknecht
Location Sound Mixer
- 2015
- Procedere: by Delia Schiltknecht
Sound Editor
- 2015
- Procedere: by Delia Schiltknecht
Sound Designer
- 2018
- Tranquillo by Jonathan Jäggi
- 2015
- Procedere: by Delia Schiltknecht