Welcome

Musical performances are forms of community. The performance space hereby represents a vital point: this is where the musicians and the public come together, and communication happens within and between the stage and the hall. It builds a common place of experience. Yet, the concept of the meeting place becomes more and more encroached upon, due to the current pandemic’s call for more physical – and thereby social – distancing or due to the current difficulty of traveling.
For seven years, a team led by Matthias Ziegler and Patrick Müller have been grappling with the question of how to make spaces and performers – which are located in different places and connected over the internet – interact with each other in real time. This question has gained more relevance in the current situation – and more urgency as well, due to the new level in which people are physically separated from one another. The project «Virtual Concert Hall» is formed as a response to this need.