Dragos Tara

Dragos Tara is a Swiss-based composer, double bassist and electronic musician, born in Bucharest in 1976. He grew up in Switzerland and studied double bass, composition, electroacoustic music and sound technology, including work with Emmanuel Nunes, Michael Jarrell and Eric Gaudibert.

His practice brings together notated composition, collective improvisation and multimedia performance, often addressing social rituals, rule-based interactions and the extension of the performer through technology. He has worked with Rue du Nord and Compagnie CH.AU, alongside interdisciplinary projects for electronics, instruments and video. Creative Sources includes Quick-Drop (CS104) and On/Off (CS241) among his recorded collaborations.