“Sound Walk”

• Musiker*innen des Lucerne Festival Contemporary Orchestra (LFCO)
• Andres Bosshard concept and direction
• Phoebe Bognár flute and conceptual collaboration

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.

In the Streets: City Stage
Step outside! The music doesn’t happen only at the KKL – it’s taking over all of Lucerne. For six days, from 25 to 30 August, “In the Streets: City Stage” brings the whole city to life with music. We’ve reimagined this “festival within the Festival” to integrate it more closely with our main program. Doreen Ketchens, America’s “Queen Clarinet,” traces the origins of jazz in the melting pot of New Orleans – and so do the Dixie-Ramblers, a Swiss marching band. A yellow hot-air balloon lands in Lucerne, doubling as a pop-up installation and a miniature concert hall. Sound walks along the Musegg Wall sharpen our ears for the city’s diverse soundscape. A percussion quartet captivates with Minimalist rhythms. And the Lucerne Festival Contemporary Orchestra (LFCO) becomes a “Symphonic Jukebox.”