Charlotte Hug Raschèr wins Swiss Music Prize
The Federal Office of Culture (BAK) announced today that Charlotte Hug Raschèr has been awarded the Swiss Music Prize. Here is the jury’s statement on the BAK website:
Charlotte Hug Raschèr – researcher in the interstices of the arts
“Charlotte Hug Raschèr is an experimental musician, composer and visual artist. In her work, she uses viola, voice, electronics and images to redefine and reinvent the boundaries between various disciplines. Born in Zurich in 1965, she invents her own playing techniques for her performances thanks to innovations such as the “soft bow” or she uses the son icons she has developed as visual scores.
The son icons are the core of Charlotte Hug Raschèr’s work. In these images, music notation and visual art merge to create a new field of possibilities for performers. The London improvisation scene has had a significant influence on the artist. Her works and spatial scores are performed by choirs, orchestras and interdisciplinary ensembles. In 2011, Charlotte Hug Raschèr was honoured as Artiste Étoile at the Lucerne Festival.
In her performances, Charlotte Hug Raschèr seeks out extremes in unusual places. For example, she has performed in the Rhone Glacier or in a prison. Charlotte Hug Raschèr not only collaborates with musicians and artists for these performances. Her art also thrives on exchange with science, for example in areas such as glaciology or sleep research. In this way, Charlotte Hug Raschèr is constantly finding new forms of expression in the spaces between cultures and challenges all our human senses.”
Charlotte Hug
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