MONTREUX VILLE CRÉATIVE: Écouter les photos
To mark the 60th anniversary of the Montreux Jazz Festival, an immersive exhibition showcases the festival’s photographic and audio archives.
Curated by art history students from the Faculty of Arts at the University of Lausanne, the exhibition is organized across six rooms. Each offers an immersion into the world of the festival: the artists and their teams behind the scenes, the musicians on stage, but also the audience, dance—inextricably linked to music—and the creation of the artist’s legend through the portrait of Nina Simone. The virtual environments, custom-designed for each theme, are enriched with audio and musical excerpts that accompany the visit. The sixth room, developed by professors Nathalie Dietschy (Department of Art History) and Constance Frei (musicologist, Department of Art History), offers listening experiences through the photographs and traces the project’s stages.
The exhibition “Listening to Photos: A Virtual Exhibition on the Montreux Jazz Festival” offers a unique and dual exploration: discovering still images guided by music and sound, and rediscovering music through the lens of photography.
Stage
Le Cinéma
17:00 – Montreux on Screen*
LEONARD COHEN (2008)
18:30 – Talk
MONTREUX VILLE CRÉATIVE: ÉCOUTER LES PHOTOS
presented by GEORGES BRAUNSCHWEIG, NATHALIE DIETSCHY, ALAIN DUFAUX & CONSTANCE FREI (UNIL-EPFL)
Other
22:30 – Montreux on Screen*
GEORGE DUKE (2009)
00:30 – Montreux on Screen*
SONNY ROLLINS (1974)
