Sonart

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Sonart - Musikschaffende Schweiz is an association of musicians that has existed since January 1, 2018.

purpose

The Sonart Association - Musikschaffende Schweiz is active in all linguistic regions of Switzerland as a representative of self-employed musicians at the political level, in the music market, among other things in matters of copyright and for social security for musicians. He supports new artistic developments in music .

history

The association was created through the merger of three previously independent musician organizations. Since 2011, they had been negotiating a possible union into a joint association. After the general assemblies held on November 25, 2017 in Bern had decided to transfer the three organizations to the new association, the founding assembly of the Sonart Association - Swiss Musicians took place on the same day. He began his work on January 1, 2018 as the legal successor to the previous organizations.

Swiss Tonkünstlerverein

The Swiss Tonkünstlerverein (STV) (French: Association Suisse des Musiciens ; Italian: Associazione Svizzera dei Musicisti ) was founded in 1900 on the initiative of the musician and journalist at the Gazette de Lausanne Édouard Combe by the composers Hans Huber , Friedrich Hegar , Friedrich Niggli and Hermann Suter founded in Zurich . The association stood up for contemporary music , represented professional composers, interpreters, conductors, improvising musicians, musicologists and music directors and presented the issues of new music to the public, to the political authorities and generally within the framework of cultural policy and especially in the fields of music theory and music journalism.

Swiss music syndicate

The Swiss Music Syndicate (SMS) , founded in 1975, was created in 1997 through the merger of the Association of Improvising Musicians of Switzerland (VIMS) and the Musicians Cooperative Switzerland (MKS) . This had, among other things, defended itself against the reduction of cultural programs about pop music on Swiss radio . The founding members included the singer Franziska Baumann , the pianist Christoph Baumann , the saxophonist Jürg Solothurnmann , the pianist Michel Wintsch , Romano Nardelli from the Swiss National Sound Archives and the drummer Lucas Niggli . The SMS was the professional association of jazz and improvising musicians in Switzerland.

Music makers in Switzerland

The Action Swiss Music association was founded in 1981 as an interest group for rock and pop music in Switzerland under the name “Aktion Mundart-Rock”. It saw itself as an “information and advice center for local rock and pop” and was initially mainly active in the Bern region . From around 1987 he called himself “Aktion CH-Rock” and since 2002 “Action Swiss Music”. In 1994 the rock association of the Basel region was founded . In 2013, Action Swiss Music merged with the Musikschaffende Schweiz (MSS) Association founded a year earlier .

Political statements

URG revision

A revision of the copyright law was formulated after six years of deliberation by the Federal Council. The Sonart Association summarized its statement as follows: We support this revision and it must be implemented quickly and without further weakening. But it could and should have been more.

Popular initiative «No Billag»

Sonart was an opponent of the No Billag initiative , which came to the vote on March 4, 2018. A corresponding set of arguments was compiled and published. The initiative was rejected with 71.6% no votes and by all cantons.

See also

literature

  • Bernard Geller, Max Favre, Andres Briner , Paul-André Gaillard: Tendances et réalisations - volume commémoratif publié à l'occasion du 75e anniversaire de l'Association des musiciens suisses, 1900–1975. Schweizerischer Tonkünstlerverein / Association Suisse des Musiciens, Atlantis Musikbuch Verlag, Zurich 1975, ISBN 978-376110464-4 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Historical merger of the three Swiss professional music associations SMS, STV and MSS as of 01.01.2018. Musicians in Switzerland (press release), accessed on February 20, 2020.
  2. ^ General assembly of the Swiss Tonkünstlerverein ( Memento from December 1, 2017 in the Internet Archive ). Schweizer Tonkünstlerverein, November 2, 2017, accessed on February 23, 2020.
  3. ^ Mission statement of the Swiss Tonkünstlerverein ( Memento from August 12, 2018 in the Internet Archive ). Swiss Tonkünstlerverein, accessed on February 20, 2020.
  4. ↑ Esther Banz: The «cultural mission» - much quoted, hardly defined. Demanding pop culture no longer takes place on the radio ( memento from December 1, 2017 in the Internet Archive ). In: WOZ The weekly newspaper . February 17, 2002 (archived at Büro Banz, accessed February 20, 2020).
  5. ↑ The Swiss Music Syndicate - a chronology from 1997 to today ( Memento from December 1, 2017 in the Internet Archive ). Swiss Music Syndicate, accessed on February 20, 2020.
  6. ↑ Action Swiss Music is being absorbed by music makers in Switzerland after 30 years ( memento from December 1, 2017 in the Internet Archive ). RFV Basel, June 14, 2013, accessed on February 23, 2020.
  7. ↑ Christoph Trummer: The URG revision is yet to come - what we think of it. Music makers in Switzerland, accessed on January 20, 2018.
  8. ↑ Argumentarium versus NoBillag ( Memento from January 20, 2018 in the Internet Archive ). Musicians in Switzerland, accessed on February 20, 2020 (PDF; 4.15 kB).