Judging by the tone of recent debates, many people are, and not only because of the technology itself. Much of the anxiety reflects a romantic image of how music is supposed to be made: the lone genius at an instrument, capturing inspiration in a single take. In reality, 2025 was significant not because AI suddenly…
Category: Music
Jazz is dead; Long live the music
I just returned from the Festival da Jazz, the three-week Jazz Festival in St. Moritz, where I attended 4 concerts, all in the Dracula Club. The thing about the Dracula Club is that it’s way too small for the number of people they let in (I don’t know how they get away with it), which…
The Swiss Contribution to Rock’n’Roll
In the movie “The Third Man” Harry Lime, the character played by Orson Welles, famously says: “In Italy for thirty years under the Borgias, they had warfare, terror, murder, and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, and the Renaissance. In Switzerland, they had brotherly love, they had five hundred years of democracy and…