Category: Music

From 16 to 28 September 2022, the tenth edition of the Label Suisse festival in Lausanne offers a three-day window to Swiss music. The festival, launched on the initiative of RTS (French-Swiss radio and television) in 2004, supported by Pro Helvetia and held once every two years, transcends individual genres and mirrors the diversity of …

Can conscious listening spark radical change? This is the question explored by the long-term project Openlab: The Witness. Artists, scientists and activists from all around the world work together with local communities and listen to messages coming from our endangered planet. Their findings are recorded in audio, video and text format and presented on an …

The online radio BOXOUT.FM based in New Delhi is putting a special focus on Swiss jazz with a podcast entitled Swiss Jazz Hour. Each of the six chapters is dedicated to a certain aspect of Swiss jazz: history of the genre, record labels, emerging jazz talents, jazz festivals, the role of traditional music in jazz, …

«Interactions: A Guide to Swiss Underground Experimental Music» is a compilation of experimental music from Switzerland that has been released on the Peruvian label Buh Records. Nearly all of the 27 tracks by artists from different linguistic regions of Switzerland, were previously unreleased. They combine a wide variety of styles, ranging from free improvisation via …

Pro Helvetia provides annual grants for the production of sound recordings with international potential. A selection is presented below. Creating a new repertoire is key to the development and continued existence of a band or a musical project. This is why Pro Helvetia contributes to the production of new works of music. Each year around …