2 ECTS

Monday	31.08.2026	13-18	Muttenz
Tuesday	01.09.2026	10-18	Muttenz
Wednesday	02.09.2026	10-18	Muttenz

What to expect:

What is the sound of the FHNW? How do various disciplines and functions play together on a campus? What would be different if we treat the whole building as an instrument?

In Community Musicking, you learn to use music creation as a critical tool to explore our environment, our working space as infrastructure and social network. Students, teachers and staff members are invited to join the group and to reflect on their daily practices, activities, used apparatuses and general perception of the Campus of the FHNW. Following a concept by the Swiss composer Hans Wüthrich, these experiences are brought into an open-minded collective process, performed and transformed through sound.

After an introduction to Hans Wüthrich’s basic concept and a few preliminary exercises, the participants first deal with objects or processes from their everyday professional life, which they briefly present to the group. In addition to this basic resource, the group then explores in subgroups creatively the Campus, thus expanding the locations and modes of playing. This material is shared and further used to develop various forms of sound-based interactions, which are refined through free experimentation and joint reflection.

Based on these experiences, the participants collectively curate a musical scenography that can include both performative and installative elements. After a setup and final rehearsal phase, the course ends with a public presentation of the results turning the Campus of the FHNW into an instrumental body and performative space and thus sensitizing the audience to reinterpret familiar surroundings and perspectives. The outcome will be further accessible in the form of a soundinstallation until the end of the Exploration Week.

The project is part of an ongoing research project on the empowering impact of creative music practices, especially for non-musicians.

Language:

English

Requirements:

No musical education needed; the minor requested preparation will be communicated shortly in advance. 

Comments:

Since diversity is an important quality in this type of work, the organizers reserve the right to prioritize applications accordingly. 

Transcript of records:

Module with compulsory attendance, final public performance on the Campus Muttenz

Module evaluation:

pass/ fail (2-point scale)

You will acquire the following skills:

Awareness

Improvement of social awareness and observation skills by interacting with the environment through unconventional perspectives.

Reflection

Critical reflection on personal boundaries and biases with playful musical means.

Community building with sound

Building up a community of creative practice and curating together a sound-based performance-installation.

Lecturers:

The group will be coached by the composer and artistic researcher Michel Roth and the percussionist and improviser Stefano Grasso.