Going to Switzerland 
by Stefanie Müller-Frank 
Sound and Production: Yanik Soland

Winner HearSay Audio Festival 2021
Overall GOLD Award and GanBearla Award (for best work in a language other than English) 
 
People from all over Europe make their way to Switzerland in order to end their lives. Mostly these are old people who suffer from an incurable disease and want to die but are not allowed to ask for assisted dying in their countries. So they leave home to travel to a foreign place and ask strangers for assistance in dying. 

The author talked to a German couple, who desired and organized their joint death in Basel, Switzerland. Her piece witnesses the last minutes of their assisted suicide – and illustrates what this decision means for their daughter who is left behind.

Going to Switzerland

The music of this album was originally composed for the stage piece "Bande originale" by Old Masters (Sarah André, Marius Schaffter, Jérôme Stünzi), which was premiered at Arsenic, Lausanne on 25 May 2021.

Les Échelles

Feelings Matter

MEA II
Filippo Gillono_Acoustic guitar, loud speakers, no-input mixing


Cover art by Mabel Bodi

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Amnesia Scanner & Freeka Tet - STROBE.RIP
Label: PAN
Cat.No.: PAN 139
Release Date: 16 June 2023
Purchase: PAN.lnk.to/STROBE.RIP

Amnesia Scanner’s third full-length album titled STROBE.RIP is a collaboration with the artist and musician Freeka Tet, who joins the album and associated live performances as a vocalist and creative collaborator.

Released by PAN records, STROBE.RIP is part of a broader series of live performances, installations, videos and physical products created by the group.

Since its inception in 2014, Ville Haimala and Martti Kalliala have continued to evolve and redefine Amnesia Scanner through experimentation across online and IRL realms. This album brings them a step closer to the latter.

With French-born, New York City-based Freeka Tet on board, STROBE.RIP acquires a new array of influences that draw from the multidisciplinary artist’s hacker mindset, shaping the sound into new forms. As a programmer and technologist, Freeka Tet’s work straddles commerce and art, combining intuitive and performative modes of expression with emergent technology and creative coding. Much like Amnesia Scanner, Tet draws from online vernacular and techno-magic to create satirical, uncanny work – artificially augmented, and highly engineered sounds, textures, images and ideas that translate memes and code into a more human and affective language.

Haimala and Kalliala say, “Amnesia Scanner is now living in the world it has built,” signaling a sincere commitment to the act. The human dimension in STROBE.RIP is chaotic: a reverse hero’s journey that merges deep-fried baroque with the quasi-angelic into a psychotic megamix of tropes, lyrics, genres, and sonic palettes that are both disorienting and deeply resonant.

The opening track Tongue Demons perfectly summarizes this, with blaring synth stabs and frenetic drum patterns paving the way for a broken melody arranged through a digital brass chord progression. Giggle and Bounds follow right after: two outstanding pieces of introspection signaling the melodic turn of the album, with the latter almost posing as a weirdo 2-step ballad filled with deep pads and pitched-up and down vocals.

The 160bpm, 4-to-4 pulsing kicks of Ledge and the palm-muted chords of Disperse serve as a perfect build-up to Ride, right in the middle of the tracklist: a summer hit from hell, a crooked saxophone-graced tune carried by a crusty, Balearic acoustic arpeggio. The alt acoustics continue with Damon, or at least before the track turns from Nirvana’s Unplugged to Slayer’s double kick drum pedals and becomes thrashtronica with Tet on screamo duties.

Things get softer with Clown, specifically in the chanted refrain, and even more aetherial in the almost trip-hop timbres of abandoned.club, where chopped-and-screwed vocals sing “I lost myself in the club.” Scorpions, Bats & Spiders is the abstract gem declaring the death of Deconstructed Club Music—a genre created by journalists and pioneered by the duo, among others. The words “deconstructed,” “club,” and “panel discussion” are spelled out in a vortex throughout the track as if they were to be carved on the genre’s imaginary gravestone. Closing the album, the saw bass of Cat serves Euro-electro à la Benny Benassi’s Satisfaction, while the doomed outro Merge closes the album in a triumphant aggregation of noise and pixelated drums that render the image of a crust-punk ensemble.

Written by Amnesia Scanner
Produced by Amnesia Scanner & Freeka Tet
Mastered by Enyang Urbiks

Amnesia Scanner & Freeka Tet - Tongue Demons (PAN 139)

Binaural concert recording of the piece "MAGANOTE" by Yanik Soland at Gare Du Nord, Basel.
Date: 4.12.24

the piece was performed and commissioned by IIPM (Mikolaj Rytowski and Phoebe Bognar)

MAGONOTE @ Gare Du Nord, Basel (excerpt) 4.12.24

Marco Papiro is a Swiss-Italian musician, composer, and one of the most dedicated contemporary investigators of the potential of analogue synthesizers. In contrast to many electronic musicians of his generation, Papiro's musical foundation is rooted in classical and folk genres, resulting in a unique blend of romantic elements and artificial impressions. One distinctive feature of Papiro's music is his incorporation of synthesised human voices. Over the past two decades, his work has been featured on labels such as Muscut and Marionette. His second album for the Italian avant-garde label Planam has recently been released. Additionally, Papiro has gained recognition for his cover artworks for artists like Sonic Boom, Panda Bear, and Sun Araw.

All music performed by Marco Papiro on electronic instruments, composed and mixed for Werkstatt Sessions.

Werkstatt Sessions with Papiro, 2025 – 01

Cut Down Trees (We Need An Ark)

The Winter Restrictions Vol. 1 sets a sign to celebrate club music. This compilation brings seven Swiss musicians from all over Switzerland together: Kombé, CCO, A-Alpha, NVST, Slow Glass, Rafael Kasma and L.D.R.. With its variety but consistency at the same time, this compilation could probably be seen as the blueprint of club music in Switzerland in the years 2020 / 2021.

www.subjecttorestrictions.ch
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Mastered by Isabel Schröer at Olo Mastering
Graphics by Dylan Moore
A&R by Dominik André
Original Release by Subject To Restrictions Discs

Winter Restrictions Vol. 1

Harbin

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Kombé - Harbin

http://www.lateralroma.eu/chambermusic.tobiaskoch

Chamber Music (2021) is a soundtrack that chronicles signs, objects, and messages after Bifo Berardi’s writings on the “age of imaginaries”. With referent musical instrumentations that overlay binaural field recordings, Koch renders multi-dimensional soundscapes to create sentient substructures for his sonic echo chambers. Replicating distinct characteristics of a florid age, Chamber Music has no beginning or end, sowing narratives through a process that relies on the spatial-temporal experience of listening.

The composition makes use of binaural 3D audio, which is only effective when listening through headphones.

All music by Tobias Koch

Chamber Music

Chamber Music (2021)

NEW LP:
https://futuraresistenza.bandcamp.com/album/yanik-soland-yuki

website:  http://www.yaniksoland.ch
Papiro&Yanik Soland: https://buhrecords.bandcamp.com/track/papiro-yanik-soland-nozomi
MIR:  https://mirmirmir.bandcamp.com/
live at gardena fest V, Rotterdam:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rMdugAUj1Ik&t=131s

MAGONOTE @ Gare Du Nord, Basel (excerpt) 4.12.24

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