Swiss Music Awards ceremony

Alain Berset presents the Swiss Music Awards at the Kunstmuseum Basel, as part of the ZeitRäume festival. The Grand Award goes to the duo Cod.Act, the brothers André and Michel Décosterd.

A snake of 150 tyres that produces sounds, suspended loudspeakers, opera singers on stilts: “Ist das Musik?” Yes, he answers, and it draws its strength precisely from escaping categories.

Speeches on this site

• Grand Prix suisse de musique 2019 à Cod.Act (in German, French-language page)

Sources

• Federal Office of Culture, press release of 07.05.2019