Accordion<\/h1><\/div>Expression, joy of playing, color, life.<\/h2><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>The accordion has been part of my life since 1988. One day I went to Musik Hug, a store for musical instruments in Zurich, and rented one of these small, red squeeze boxes. Having no idea what it would lead to, I experienced an enormous feeling of freedom while playing with the sounds that this instrument produced.
\nA feeling of delight came over me in all sorts of places, in open fields and in forests, on Zurich\u2019s Lindenhof, at the Baldern castle on Zurich\u2019s Felsenegg, with these petite, impudent, pointy sounds!
\nWorking together with dancers from the alternative art scene gave me a special joy and showed me the way to a new approach to music.<\/p>\n
The lessons in improvisation with Irene Schweizer brought me into a wholly new musical world. I started to feel the music physically, radically, and completely unlike everything I had till then encountered in my musical life.<\/p>\n
The year that I spent at the Pauline Oliveros Foundation in Kingston, NY was decisive. The interaction with Pauline Oliveros, composer, accordionist, philosopher, provided me with crucial catalysts for my work. The practice of\u00a0Deep Listening<\/a>,\u00a0a form of musical meditation, was especially befitting for me.<\/p>\nAmerican artists, musicians, poets, both male and female, provided me with inspiration. I can never forget the encounters with performance artists such as Linda Montano, or the artist couple David and Gisela Gamper, and also with the dancer Julie Lyon and the percussionist Jason Finkelman.
\nJust walking around in Manhattan was in itself a musical experience! Nor can I forget the day I asked women in front of the UN headquarters how to say \u201cHello\u201d in their native language. I collected 22 languages in one afternoon!<\/p>\n
Expression, joy of playing, color, life.<\/h2><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>The accordion has been part of my life since 1988. One day I went to Musik Hug, a store for musical instruments in Zurich, and rented one of these small, red squeeze boxes. Having no idea what it would lead to, I experienced an enormous feeling of freedom while playing with the sounds that this instrument produced.
\nA feeling of delight came over me in all sorts of places, in open fields and in forests, on Zurich\u2019s Lindenhof, at the Baldern castle on Zurich\u2019s Felsenegg, with these petite, impudent, pointy sounds!
\nWorking together with dancers from the alternative art scene gave me a special joy and showed me the way to a new approach to music.<\/p>\n
The lessons in improvisation with Irene Schweizer brought me into a wholly new musical world. I started to feel the music physically, radically, and completely unlike everything I had till then encountered in my musical life.<\/p>\n
The year that I spent at the Pauline Oliveros Foundation in Kingston, NY was decisive. The interaction with Pauline Oliveros, composer, accordionist, philosopher, provided me with crucial catalysts for my work. The practice of\u00a0Deep Listening<\/a>,\u00a0a form of musical meditation, was especially befitting for me.<\/p>\nAmerican artists, musicians, poets, both male and female, provided me with inspiration. I can never forget the encounters with performance artists such as Linda Montano, or the artist couple David and Gisela Gamper, and also with the dancer Julie Lyon and the percussionist Jason Finkelman.
\nJust walking around in Manhattan was in itself a musical experience! Nor can I forget the day I asked women in front of the UN headquarters how to say \u201cHello\u201d in their native language. I collected 22 languages in one afternoon!<\/p>\n
The accordion has been part of my life since 1988. One day I went to Musik Hug, a store for musical instruments in Zurich, and rented one of these small, red squeeze boxes. Having no idea what it would lead to, I experienced an enormous feeling of freedom while playing with the sounds that this instrument produced.
\nA feeling of delight came over me in all sorts of places, in open fields and in forests, on Zurich\u2019s Lindenhof, at the Baldern castle on Zurich\u2019s Felsenegg, with these petite, impudent, pointy sounds!
\nWorking together with dancers from the alternative art scene gave me a special joy and showed me the way to a new approach to music.<\/p>\n
The lessons in improvisation with Irene Schweizer brought me into a wholly new musical world. I started to feel the music physically, radically, and completely unlike everything I had till then encountered in my musical life.<\/p>\n
The year that I spent at the Pauline Oliveros Foundation in Kingston, NY was decisive. The interaction with Pauline Oliveros, composer, accordionist, philosopher, provided me with crucial catalysts for my work. The practice of\u00a0Deep Listening<\/a>,\u00a0a form of musical meditation, was especially befitting for me.<\/p>\n American artists, musicians, poets, both male and female, provided me with inspiration. I can never forget the encounters with performance artists such as Linda Montano, or the artist couple David and Gisela Gamper, and also with the dancer Julie Lyon and the percussionist Jason Finkelman.
\nJust walking around in Manhattan was in itself a musical experience! Nor can I forget the day I asked women in front of the UN headquarters how to say \u201cHello\u201d in their native language. I collected 22 languages in one afternoon!<\/p>\n
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