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Tue 25.08 Wed 26.08
Is that a hot-air balloon that has landed here? For two days, an unusual yellow object stands in Lucerne, serving as both a pop-up installation and a miniature concert hall. Nothing fixed, but rather a playful intervention in everyday urban life. Inspired by the legendary Dream House, a potentially infinite light-and-sound installation by the American Minimalist La Monte Young and his wife Marian Zazeela, musicians of the Lucerne Festival Contemporary Orchestra (LFCO) fill this temporary space with the seemingly endless sustained tones of Young’s groundbreaking Trio for Strings. Step inside and listen to this ethereal, hypnotic music unfolding in slow motion.
Tue 25.08 Fr. 28.08 Sat 29.08 Sun 30.08
Let’s experience the world through our ears. Together with musicians of the Lucerne Festival Academy, sound artist Andres Bosshard develops a sound walk around Lucerne’s Musegg Wall with its nine towers. He calls his approach “active urban sound gardening,” encouraging us to listen closely: how many pockets of quiet can be found in Lucerne? How does the noise of the highway cuttings blend with the flow of the postglacial Reuss River? What does it sound like when a helicopter suddenly appears, casting its reverberation tails against the tower walls? We learn to engage with our everyday surroundings through listening and, through our own actions, to shape a new urban sound.
Reflecting the Streets of New Orleans
We 26.08 | 18:00 Sun 30.08. | 16:00
"Reflecting the Streets of New Orleans" a creation by Doreen Ketchens, Simone Keller & Jessie Cox in collaboration with musicians of the Lucerne Festival Contemporary Orchestra (LFCO), curated by Hiromi Gut (guerillaclassics)
