Doxa Shroti is a guerrilla concert format that transforms public spaces, like underpasses, into spontaneous stages every month. Inspired by a collaboration with Chiachun Xu, a co-founder of Outerpulsation in Taipei – Taiwan, which has been hosting public concerts since 2020, a branch was launched in Zurich in early 2024.
The unpredictable conditions at these locations become key elements of the musical experience, deeply shaping the performances. The series takes an innovative approach to exploring space and sound while fostering connections among artists in the experimental free music scene.
With Luc Häfliger and Julian Max
The Community Sound Laboratory, also known as the CB-Lab, is a creative and social hub located in the cultural center Rote Fabrik. Its main purpose is to make contemporary club culture accessible to the wider community through low-threshold interaction with alternative electronic music.
The CB-Lab serves as a professional platform for artists and amateurs to create, exchange, and experiment with electronic and electro-acoustic music. It aims to provide opportunities for individuals to establish themselves in the field of electronic music and club culture.
As part of the core team, I worked on questions of access, use, and infrastructure. Together with Florin Büchel, I co-led the Audio & Technology group. The focus: build a flexible system where equipment supports practice, not the other way around.
The lab is designed to disappear when work begins.
At Rhizom Festival, the social responsibility of the culture surrounding electronic music and its consumers will be discussed, experienced, and made visible through lectures, film, dance, music, video, and installation art.
As a co-founder of the festival and the associated Vazem organization, I was involved in the organization, planning, execution, and curation of artistic contributions in the first four editions from 2017 to 2020.
Concrete Walls was a transdisciplinary festival held in Valle di Lei, Graubünden. The project was developed in close collaboration with Sebastian Nagelmüller, Project Manager for Nature, Landscape & Work Assignments at Beverin Nature Park, Switzerland. During the planning process, an emphasis was placed on working with local resources and involving people from the region, creating a space for cross-regional exchange and awareness of local contexts.
My main responsibility was the artistic curation of the festival. The remote landscape and the site-specific conditions were not treated as a backdrop, but as an active element shaping the program. This approach was reflected in the individual artistic works, which were developed in direct response to the environment and its specific constraints.
From August 23 to 25, 2019, the interdisciplinary arts, film, and music festival «it is not made of mud and cannot dream of returning to dust…» (Donna_Haraway) took place at the Geroldareal in Zurich. The festival program consisted of three acts, following a narrative dramaturgy, which explored various synesthetic overlaps between the sensory experiences of seeing and hearing. Different aspects of synthesizer soundscapes reception were thematically organized and placed in dialogue.
Alongside Marc Jauss (Fromheretillnow) i co-curated the musical and performance part of the festival, while Emanuel Küng (Porny Days) was in charge of curating the film selection.
As a vessel for free improvisation for live electronics, Freud was created (w. Luc Häfliger) for impermanence in concert situations, performances, or film scores, using a constantly changing array of electronic devices.
Open Jam is an informal format for musical exchange and knowledge transfer. The concept is simple and effective: electronic instruments are distributed in a room and connected to form a system. Visitors have free access to the instruments and receive support from present experts when using them.
The goal of Open Jam is to connect people interested in electronic music and promote low-threshold access to music-making and knowledge transfer.
Took place at: Rote Fabrik, Upstate Koch, Grafenau, Umbo, Garage 29
Co founder and part of creation and curation of the music label Lustpoderosa from 2015 to 2018.