SONIC TRACES: FROM SWITZERLAND

The performance SONIC TRACES: FROM SWITZERLAND displays what Switzerland sounds like nowadays. The multimedia based show with music and sounds from Switzerland presents pop and folk musicians or sound artists.

SONIC TRACES: FROM SWITZERLAND can be described as a live-production of a documentary film. The performance features versatile, surprising and contradictory impressions of 21th century Switzerland: Everyday sounds stand next to voices of nature or contemporary music. Different artists are portrayed, such as Bernese Trash-Blues musician Reverend Beat-Man or composer and musician Ruedi Häusermann from Zürich. The deep bass sounds of the St.Gallen-based dub musician Bit-tuner are just as much part of  Switzerland’s soundscape as the Bernese Klezmer band Ot-Asoy and the federal yodel festival in Interlaken. They are merged into a dense acoustic mix, partly being manipulated or modified. Photographs from places, people, instruments and other objects as well as recordings of interviews and concerts complete the acoustic blend on a visual level.

SONIC TRACES: SWITZERLAND consists of music ethnologist and journalist Thomas Burkhalter, producer Simon Grab and video artist and VJ Michael Spahr from the music platform Norient.

For further informations please visit www.digitalbrainstorming.ch and www.norient.com
Entry: CHF 15.-/10.- (students)