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Music - Social Sciences - 18.03.2025
Music as a bridge: Field Practice in Colombia with Batuta
Luca Porras completed his field practice in Colombia with the organization Batuta, which uses music to help children who have been victims of the armed conflict to come to terms with their experiences.

Pedagogy - Music - 13.03.2025
The combination of music and Italian has given rise to ’Musicalita’

Music - 11.03.2025
Nadja Räss receives the Golden Treble Clef 2025

Music - Art & Design - 20.02.2025
Melanie Dörig becomes new lecturer for music and movement

Music - 17.02.2025
Jonas Ruther becomes new lecturer for jazz drums

Music - 23.01.2025
Q&A sessions for the two degree programmes ’Music and Research’ & ’Music and Scene in Transformation’

Music - 17.01.2025
Francesca Verunelli becomes new lecturer for theory, instrumentation and composition

Music - Event - 15.01.2025
Change of scene 2025 music festival: more depth thanks to more contrast

Music - Career - 08.01.2025
New Head of the Institute of Classical and Church Music

Music - 17.12.2024
Young people are on the trail of the "groove"

Music - 18.11.2024
Daria Occhini wins the Herma Haselsteiner Prize

Music - Computer Science - 24.09.2024
An exhibition on algorithmic music at EPFL Pavilions
An exhibition on algorithmic music at EPFL Pavilions
On view at EPFL Pavilions, the exhibition Musica ex Machina: Machines Thinking Musically offers an immersive journey through the incredible history of algorithmic thinking and music.

Music - 10.09.2024
10 years of further training

Music - Campus - 06.09.2024
Music graduates receive diplomas and prizes

Music - 05.07.2024
Gian Luzi Niederhauser wins orchestra position

Music - Event - 03.07.2024
Jakob Pilgram and Marco Amherd become lecturers at the Institute for Classical and Church Music

Music - Campus - 25.06.2024
Carolina Müller becomes new lecturer for the vocal specialization "Groove and Electronics"

Music - 12.06.2024
Michael Bach becomes a lecturer in wind music direction at the Lucerne School of Music

Music - Campus - 27.05.2024
Master's graduation concerts at the Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts
Master’s graduation concerts at the Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts

Music - 24.04.2024
UZH Acquires Important Richard Wagner Manuscript
UZH Acquires Important Richard Wagner Manuscript
UZH has made a spectacular acquisition of an important manuscript by Richard Wagner. In "Eine Mitteilung an meine Freunde" (-A Message to My Friends-), the composer takes autobiographical and artistic stock and looks to the future.

Music - Campus - 15.04.2024
New Head of the Institute of Classical Music at the Basel University of Music FHNW
New Head of the Institute of Classical Music at the Basel University of Music FHNW

Music - Campus - 25.03.2024
Dave Gisler, Samuel Leipold, Mareille Merck and Manuel Troller become new lecturers for guitar jazz

Music - Psychology - 27.02.2024
Live Music Emotionally Moves Us More than Streamed Music
Live Music Emotionally Moves Us More than Streamed Music
How does listening to live music affect the emotional center of our brain? A study carried out at the University of Zurich has found that live performances trigger a stronger emotional response than listening to music from a device. Concerts connect performers with their audience, which may also have to do with evolutionary factors.

Music - 19.01.2024
Andrea Bischoff becomes lecturer for oboe at the Lucerne School of Music

Music - Event - 12.01.2024
Change of scene 2024: symphonies, soundwalks and pig organs
Change of scene 2024: symphonies, soundwalks and pig organs

Music - Architecture & Buildings - 05.12.2023
Music and design in harmony

Music - Event - 10.07.2023
Does exoticism in music still exist?
Does exoticism in music still exist?
For their project -The Armenian presence at the Montreux Jazz Festival - A study of the Tigran Hamasyan Quintet concert in 2014-, Léandre Guy and Basile Tornare explored what exoticism means in music and the limits of genres.

Music - 26.04.2023
Shoulder rest: the unappreciated third when making music
Shoulder rest: the unappreciated third when making music
The shoulder rest of violinists does not emit any sound. However, violist Fabian Aschwanden has experienced for himself that it has a great influence not only on posture, but also on sound.

Physics - Music - 04.01.2023
For the love of physics
For the love of physics
Vira Bondar is fascinated by the fundamental questions of physics. She conducts research with ultracold neutrons and is working to make exercise sessions at ETH Zurich even more exciting.

Music - 21.07.2022
Biotech violin steps into the limelight
Biotech violin steps into the limelight
It is amazing what kind of magical sounds can be elicited from a piece of wood treated with fungi. The biotech violin, whose tonewood has been developed at Empa, is now taking to the concert stage with violinist Irina Pak.

Music - Innovation - 11.07.2022
Bringing cultural archives to life
Whether it's jazz recordings, concert footage, photographs or interviews, researchers are applying machine learning and digital museology techniques to archives of cultural data to achieve new artistic and creative experiences.

Music - Social Sciences - 28.06.2022
Party hard but party safe at the Montreux Jazz Festival
Party hard but party safe at the Montreux Jazz Festival
An EPFL PhD candidate in urban sociology spent four years working at the Montreux Jazz Festival in order to gain insights into how safety and security are managed, both within and around this world-famous event.

Music - Event - 30.05.2022
When doing research is like playing jazz
When doing research is like playing jazz
From exploring the nature of creativity to turning a building into an instrument, a unique collaboration between EPFL's Digital and Cognitive Musicology Lab (DCML) and celebrated jazz pianist Michael Wollny aims to push the boundaries of music theory.

Music - Campus - 05.07.2021
Student podcasts showcase the heritage of the Montreux Jazz Festival
Student podcasts showcase the heritage of the Montreux Jazz Festival

Environment - Music - 01.07.2021
Composing new energy systems
Composing new energy systems
Modern, decentralized energy systems are a highly complex matter. Planning them in an optimal and cost-efficient way is a major challenge for energy planners.

Electroengineering - Music - 14.10.2019
"I teach a subject that's notoriously hard to learn"
Romain Fleury, a tenure-track assistant professor who heads the Laboratory of Wave Engineering, has been named best teacher in electrical and electronic engineering.

Music - Computer Science - 30.07.2019
A new way to experience traditional music of Afghanistan
A new way to experience traditional music of Afghanistan
(Summer Series): Mathieu Clavel, a master's student in the College of Humanities (CDH) Digital Humanities Institute, is bringing musical heritage from Afghanistan to life using tools from data science and virtual reality.

Music - 11.04.2019
Jean-Marc Wunderli takes over

Music - 23.10.2018
Research into new audio experience resonates at Tinguely Museum in Basel
Research into new audio experience resonates at Tinguely Museum in Basel
Research into new audio experience resonates at Tinguely Museum in Basel A project funded by the SNSF is investigating the audio phenomena and sound culture associated with radio.

Linguistics / Literature - Music - 11.05.2018
Improgineering: improv and engineering come together on stage
Improgineering: improv and engineering come together on stage

Music - Health - 26.03.2018
Healing instead of cutting down
Healing instead of cutting down
Trees can get sick too. In urban areas, this usually means that the infested tree has to be felled for safety reasons.

Music - Materials Science - 15.02.2018
Sinfonia ai funghi
Sinfonia ai funghi
Do violins made of wood that had been treated with fungi sound the same as a fine, antique instrument? Acoustics experts at Empa are currently studying the body and soul of instruments made of "mycowood". Precision structure-borne sound measurements and psycho-acoustic tests with volunteers should reveal whether a fungal treatment can really improve an instrument.

Music - Innovation - 11.08.2017
Ce sont les données, qui font la musique
Ce sont les données, qui font la musique
The ETH spin-off Bonsai Systems helps musicians to improve their movement, use of force and body position.

Physics - Music - 14.07.2017
Coupling a Nano-trumpet With a Quantum Dot Enables Precise Position Determination
Coupling a Nano-trumpet With a Quantum Dot Enables Precise Position Determination
Scientists from the Swiss Nanoscience Institute and the University of Basel have succeeded in coupling an extremely small quantum dot with 1,000 times larger trumpet-shaped nanowire.

Physics - Music - 16.05.2017
Persistent and curious
Persistent and curious
As Professor of Particle Physics, Felicitas Pauss played a key role in the discovery of the Higgs boson.

Environment - Music - 27.02.2017
At home in NEST
Two students are now living in the NEST unit Vision Wood. Communications intern Ramona Ronner visited Patryk Spera and David Norris in their very unusual flat, and talked to them about their life in a research environment.

Music - Computer Science - 02.02.2017
Crowd mapping Canton of Geneva's soundscape
EPFL is asking Android users who visit or live in Canton of Geneva to record the sounds around them with a special app.

Music - Computer Science - 02.02.2017
Crowd Mapping Geneva Canton's Soundscape
EPFL is asking Android users who visit or live in Geneva Canton to record the sounds around them with a special app.

Event - Music - 03.11.2016
Three public spaces at the intersection of science and art

Music - Innovation - 04.07.2016
The Montreux Jazz Heritage Lab2 to relive the Montreux Jazz Festival
04. Montreux Heritage Lab2 is an immersive audiovisual experience that places nearly 6,000 hours of archive footage from the Montreux Jazz Festival at the fingertips of the public.