Soundtrack Zurich 2024
Two panel discussions on artificial intelligence in music
Two panels co-organised by SUISA will address the topic of artificial intelligence in music at Soundtrack Zurich, the three-day event …
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European Youth Choir Festival
“The audience should bathe in a cloud of sound”
From 17 to 21 May 2023, the European Youth Choir Festival will take place in Basel. On the opening day, …
Workshop
SUISA Workshop at “Soundtrack Zurich”
Do you have any questions about remuneration for online uses of music in films, series or commercials? Visit the SUISA …
“Us composers, we are like surgeons for peopleʼs souls”
Romanian composer Sebastian Androne-Nakanishi attracted international attention at a young age. He moved to Switzerland in 2019 and recently joined …
Swiss Congress on Film and Media Music
From 29 September to 2 October 2020, the film and media music congress “SoundTrack_Zurich” will take place during the Zurich …
Michel Barengo: sound collector and tinkerer outside the comfort zone
Soak up as much as possible and then process it. That is Michel Barengo’s creed. The 37-year-old Zurich resident will …
“Orchestral spaces” or if music becomes spatially tangible when you listen to it
In his work, composer Michael Künstle deals with the interplay between tonal dramatisation and dramatic tones. The 27-year-old Basel resident …
Michel Legrand, a life for music
Michel Legrand died on January 26th 2019. He was 86. The composer leaves behind a prestigious career spanning 60 years …
“Intuition and emotional effect are more important to me than inflexible concepts”
FONDATION SUISA awarded Balz Bachmann the Film Music Prize 2017 for his original compositions for Wilfried Meightry’s film documentary “Bis …
“If I had made a movie with African music, I would have been freer.”
The Swiss composer Niki Reiser received the CHF 25,000 Film Music Prize of the FONDATION SUISA in the course of …
Kandidaturen für den Filmmusikpreis 2016 der FONDATION SUISA
Filmmusik wird häufig unterschätzt. Mit dem Filmmusikpreis der FONDATION SUISA wird die Wichtigkeit der musikalischen Arbeiten im Film hervorgehoben. Kandidaturen …
Revision of distribution categories 1C/1D and 2C/2D
The rules for the distribution of licence fees for broadcast music in SRG TV programmes and in private TV broadcasters’ …
“The most difficult question is which sound suits the film best”
At the occasion of the Locarno Film Festival in August, Swiss composer Peter Scherer was awarded with the Film Music …
“Swiss Film Music features great diversity and high quality”
The box-set “Swiss Film Music”, containing three CDs, one DVD and a book, released by FONDATION SUISA, provides fascinating insights …
Filmmusikpreis 2015 wird in der Kategorie Dokumentarfilm vergeben
Der mit 15 000 Schweizer Franken dotierte Filmmusikpreis der FONDATION SUISA wird 2015 erstmals in der Kategorie Dokumentarfilm vergeben. Der …
«Die Anthologie ‹Swiss Film Music› ist glorios»
Seit Ende Januar 2015 ist die von der FONDATION SUISA herausgegebene Anthologie der Schweizer Filmmusik von 1923 - 2012 im …
