In spring 2023, Messe Freiburg decided to redesign the Internationale Kulturbörse (IKF). The aim is to make IKF fit for future within the changing culture sector.
In order to give the organisers the necessary time for the reorientation, the trade fair will be pausing in 2024. The next IKF is going to take place in Freiburg from 20 to 22 January 2025.
We will inform you about the new concept and contents of the event in due course.
«Get Going!» Portrait Series 2021
«However, Lump200’s directionless universe leads you back to yourself.»
So hat Forced Exposure schon in den Nullerjahren die Musik von René Desalmands beats & lyrics Projekt beschrieben. Parallel zum nächsten Lump200 Album entwickelt Desalmand nun zusammen mit Partner*innen eine Web-App, die im Netz zur offenen, kollektiven und öffentlichen Produktion von Audio-Inhalten einlädt. Das Album selbst wird so zur offenen Form. Beteiligung und die Trennung von stage und floor im digitalen Raum werden herausgefordert. René Desalmand ist Saxofonist, komponiert und produziert Musik für Hörspiele und Installationen und entwickelt transdisziplinäre Arbeiten.
www.desalmand.com
www.lump200.com
«Get Going!» has existed as a FONDATION SUISA funding offer since 2018. With this new form of a grant, creative and artistic processes that do not fall within established categories are given a financial jump-start.
«Get Going!» Portrait Series 2021
The designer, sound artist and composer Daniel Zea works with performance, movement recording systems, electronic tinkering, augmented reality, video and computer-generated images. His most recent works focus on the fragility of the human being in the face of technology. Thus they offer a mirror between the virtual and the real, with the human being always at the centre. Sometimes this reflection leads to a social or political poetics. His project aims to further explore this fragility, using his own 3D avatar to create a kind of autobiographical black video comedy. He is co-director of the Geneva-based Ensemble Vortex and teaches interactivity at HEAD.
www.danielzea.org
«Get Going!» has existed as a FONDATION SUISA funding offer since 2018. With this new form of a grant, creative and artistic processes that do not fall within established categories are given a financial jump-start.
«Get Going!» Portrait Series 2021
Artists like Imelda Gabs are the reason why pop never goes out of fashion and always moves with the times. She has Belgian and Congolese roots and grew up in Lausanne, Switzerland, where she learned the piano, violin and singing from an early age. After an eventful stage and music career with her debut at the age of 14 at the Palais des Beaux-Arts in Brussels, two performances at the prestigious Montreux Jazz Festival, her participation in Docks’ Proxima project in Lausanne and two self-produced singles/clips released in 2020 and 2021, she is now dedicated to the production of her very first album, which, just like her career, is meant to be daring and surprising.
www.imeldagabs.com
«Get Going!» has existed as a FONDATION SUISA funding offer since 2018. With this new form of a grant, creative and artistic processes that do not fall within established categories are given a financial jump-start.
«Get Going!» Portrait Series 2021
«Breaking boundaries is the motto, craziness the motor, the stars the goal»: this is the guideline that Engadine musician Bibi Vaplan used to create POPCORN-OPERA. This new kind of opera allows artistic creations to pop up. Everything is allowed. From music, literature, happenings, inventions to mini festivals. If traditional operas take place on a stage, this project explodes in all possible directions: digital, analogue, live, somewhere, everywhere and even on the moon. On 6.11.2021, the longest opera “prologue” ever ended. After this test phase, the popcorn opera will start the big overture in 2023.
www.bibivaplan.ch
«Get Going!» has existed as a FONDATION SUISA funding offer since 2018. With this new form of a grant, creative and artistic processes that do not fall within established categories are given a financial jump-start.
«Get Going!» Portrait Series 2021
Aris Bassetti is a visual designer who makes music. In 2005, he founded Peter Kernel, with which he played more than 800 concerts throughout Europe, the USA and Canada. In 2006, he founded the record label On The Camper Records, with which he won the Migros Kulturprozent award for best Swiss label three times. With 7 published records to his credit and various music for films, TV series and plays, he was nominated for the Swiss Music Award in 2016. In 2017, he founded La Tessinoise, a festival with the aim of bringing the Swiss music scene together in a more conscious and concrete way, achieving enormous success. Since 2017, he has also dedicated himself to producing other artists.
www.facebook.com/peterkernel/aris-bassetti
«Get Going!» has existed as a FONDATION SUISA funding offer since 2018. With this new form of a grant, creative and artistic processes that do not fall within established categories are given a financial jump-start.
2021 «Get Going!» Portrait Series
Daniel Jakob & Thomas Burkhalter: Melodies In My Head – pop music made from interviews
The musician Daniel Jacob and ethnologist and audiovisual artist Thomas Burkhalter have formed a new duo named Melodies In My Head. They are using statements made in interviews to develop lyrics and melodies, then using this to produce songs and tracks. Melodies In My Head combines ethnography, journalism and art and creates catchy new pop music with depth. Burkhalter and Jakob have already collaborated successfully on projects such as “Clash of Gods” (with Christophe Jaquet), a multidisciplinary theatre, and the two podcast series “Gqom edits” (with Marcel Gschwend AKA Bit-Tuner – nominated for the Prix Europa) and “Timezones” (in collaboration with the Goethe Institute).
https://www.facebook.com/daniel.jakob.96
https://www.facebook.com/dejotdejot/
http://www.mouthwateringrecords.com/
«Get Going!» has existed as a FONDATION SUISA funding offer since 2018. With this new form of a grant, creative and artistic processes that do not fall within established categories are given a financial jump-start.
2021 «Get Going!» Portrait Series
The composer Antoine Chessex is developing a new direction in his musical practice, at the point where sound art and acoustic ecology meet – one that requires a transversal approach. As part of this exploration, he is drawing on practices and concepts from sound art and sound studies, audiographing non-human soundscapes and composing these into pieces of sonic fiction using instrumental processing. He is also exploring how sound, as a trigger auditory imagination, can enable an ecology of listening and is thus investigating coexisting human and non-human voices in their complex and fluid entanglement.
www.soundcloud.com/antoine-chessex
«Get Going!» has existed as a FONDATION SUISA funding offer since 2018. With this new form of a grant, creative and artistic processes that do not fall within established categories are given a financial jump-start.
The 17th jazzahead! edition was a good one, while the numbers still have room to grow
From 27 to 30 April, the professional jazz world met in the Free Hanseatic City of Bremen for the 17th jazzahead! – Europe’s biggest jazz trade event felt like it did before the pandemic, only somehow better. Proximity was a decisive factor here, not only regarding the design of the trade fair and concert halls, but also in terms of interhuman exchange. All the more surprising is the comparison of visitor numbers: With 2,800 professional delegates, jazzahead! exceeded last year’s edition, which was still strongly marked by the pandemic, by only 100 people. There is room for improvement here. However, this did not disturb the exuberant atmosphere.
The ambience was also visibly enjoyed by the 60 or so Swiss participants coming together during the trade fair at the yellow glowing SWISS MUSIC stand. Here, they met their international partners, displayed their promotional material or simply took a breather in between. The platform was offered to them free of charge by the FONDATION SUISA, Pro Helvetia and SONART – Swiss Musicians Association, who were also taking care of the front office.
There was Swiss live music on each of the three trade fair days, too: Sc’ööf, LIUN + The Science Fiction Orchestra and UASSYN delighted, without a shadow of a doubt, numerous international bookers’ ears.
The next jazzahead! is scheduled from 11 to 14 April 2024.
