Our Work
OUR MAIN PROJECT: AMP
Thousands of musicians graduate from music schools each year with career dreams. But too many lack the essential music production and business skills to make it in a saturated industry.
Our project AMP is a response to this issue. It is a capacity-building programme that equips aspiring music professionals with the skills to produce, publish, and promote their work. AMP improves music education, widens professional prospects, and supports cultural preservation.
COLLECTIVE REFLECTIONS
WHAT ROLE FOR MUSICIANS IN A WORLD IN CRISIS?
The Collective Reflections are workshops in which we propose to mobilise the collective intelligence and creativity of musicians to identify responses to the world’s crises. We initiated this project because we believe that artists are key actors capable of catalysing positive change, especially in a time when global tensions and human rights abuse reach new heights.
The first iteration of this event took place in Neuchâtel on December 1, 2024 and was sold out. Its findings are available in a full report (in French only).
Research
We study the impact of music on society and present our findings in different formats and setting in festivals, universities, museums, and more.
- Latest academic study: Can Music Production Education Be a Meaningful Instrument for Development?
- We joined Swiss artist Arthur Henry to discuss his stunning project Sampling The World, exploring how music projects can influence society at the Montreux Jazz Festival 2024.
- We have been fortunate to exchange views about music, music production, and advocacy in esteemed higher education institutions such as ITM in Medellin and the Geneva Graduate Institute.
Collaborations
Listening to climate change
We build audio installations to raise awareness about climate change with the team at Cucusonic. In 2024, we presented an immersive audio installation at PeopleFest in collaboration with the Granada Centre for Visual Anthropology at the University of Manchester. The artwork reproduced the natural sound of a Colombian rainforest and led the audience to experience the sonics of this endangered habitat. It sought to open discussions about climate change and biodiversity loss.
This project was carried out in collaboration with Alejandro Valencia Tobón (Cucusonic) and Rupert Cox, the director of the Granada Centre for Visual Anthropology. Studio Mécanique kindly lent their infrastructure to finalise our audio artwork.
Armenia Creative Summer Camps
In 2023, we supported the 10-day creative summer camps organised by the non-profit Mihr Creative Union in Armenia for war-affected children. During the retreat, the kids engaged in artistic activities, cooked, and explored the local natural wonders, discovering new perspectives to imagine life away from the aftermath of conflict.
Support to like-minded organisations
We shoulder organisations working for similar objectives. We are currently mentoring the building of recording studios worldwide with In Place Of War as part of their #HackMusic Catalyst Programme. We also accompanied young Ukrainian musicians who fled their country with the Stanley Thomas Johnson Foundation, helping them to settle in Switzerland.