Cancelled concerts and closed venues mean empty wallets. Those working in arts and culture are particularly affected by the corona crisis. With our new project, “Social Distancing – Musical Approaching”, we hope to give musicians in and around Zurich the opportunity to continue writing music even while in self-imposed isolation – and to earn money doing so.

Do you remember playing that game as a child for which you draw a body part on paper, fold it over, and slide it to the next person until an entire body has been assembled out of different drawings? That’s our model. Our goal: a collective musical collage. It will consist multiple thirty- to sixty-second compositions/performances in video format, which will be combined to a single Gesamtkunstwerk.

The finished collage will be premiered as a movie screening featuring a live performance. When and where this event will take place is yet to be determined, as almost everything for the time being.

One thing is certain, however: each participating musician will receive a payout of CHF 200.00

The rules:

You introduce yourself to us by sending a link to a piece composed and performed by you – we listen to these pieces and then choose the participants.
If you are selected, you will receive the finished composition of another musician. You then have three days to compose your own piece.
Your piece has to tie into the composition you have received (that is, into its last seconds).
Your composition must be between 30 and 60 seconds long.
Once you are done, you send us a video of the composition together with a high-quality audio version and a PDF of the score.
We pass on your composition to the next musician.

p.s.: choose whatever musical style you prefer – there are no restrictions.