2021 «Get Going!» Portrait Series

Christoph “Sirgel” Hartmann, Roland Hofer and Niculin Janett – three musicians from the canton of Thurgau – are composing a “characteristic” folk music melody with a simple chord accompaniment for each of the 80 municipalities in the canton. The compositions will be made available as sheet music and audio files, free of charge or copyright, on the online platform “www.wurmbaslehuufe.ch”. The intention is for the online platform to grow into a meeting and information hub for both the local community and creative artists, aimed at broadening their horizons with respect to Swiss folk music.

Project:
www.wurmbaslehuufe.ch
Link to Christoph Hartmann’s website
www.sirgelsound.ch
Link to Niculin Janett’s website:
www.niculinjanett.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.

2021 «Get Going!» Portrait Series

Omni Selassi would like to say thank you: “The joy, indeed the honour, is so great that it’s more or less bowled us over: up, down – hmm! What shall we do with 25 suitcases full of dollars? The same as we’re doing now, just better. Now we can buy a Toyota or Mitsubishi bus that can be repaired anywhere in the world. We can record a second album, even though the first one isn’t even out yet. Plus, the whole shebang with the FONDATION SUISA list always feels like we’re signing a bank cheque – cool!”
www.omniselassi.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

Lucia Cadotsch / LIUN + The Science Fiction Orchestra
“After concentrating the last few years with my trio “Speak Low” – together with bassist Petter Eldh and saxophonist Otis Sandsjö – mainly on working in chamber music instrumentation, the need has grown in me to explore the sonic and compositional possibilities of a large ensemble. I am therefore very much looking forward to composing and recording new pieces for an orchestral album next year, together with producer Wanja Slavin. In addition, I hope that a new ensemble will emerge from the collaboration with the many exciting artists, which will continuously develop, cross-fertilise and perform live.”
luciacadotsch.com
youtube.com/watch?v=OQ7ETYq0Ksg

«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

Martina Linn on the hunt for traces of Rheto-Romanic at Chasa Parli
In 2022, the Grisons-based singer and composer Martina Linn will be going to the Münstertal valley in search of traces of Rheto-Romanic culture. Over the course of three months, she will be setting up a kind of musical laboratory at Chasa Parli with the aim of transporting old Rheto-Romanic folk songs and poetry into the world of contemporary music. In doing so, she will draw on her ancestral genre of indie-folk, while overhauling and expanding her songwriting by working with the different spaces and natural and unnatural effects. The resulting songs will be arranged and recorded on site with the aim of releasing them as a CD book, including illustrations and text documenting her search.
https://www.chasa-parli.ch
https://www.martinalinn.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

«However, Lump200’s directionless universe leads you back to yourself.»
That’s how Forced Exposure described the music of René Desalmand’s beats and lyrics project back in the noughties. Alongside working on the next Lump200 album, Desalmand is now collaborating with partners to develop a web app that facilitates open, collective and public production of audio content within a network. The album itself will therefore be based on an open format. The involvement of and distinction between stage and floor are being challenged in the digital space. René Desalmand is a saxophonist who composes and produces music for radio plays and installations and develops transdisciplinary work.
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.