Under the menu item "Compass", you can position an existing, drafted or fictitious music mediation project online, using the info texts and examples as guidance. Each category can be opened and shut individually. When you have positioned the project, you can save the document on your computer and/or publish it on our website under "Projects".
Info
Compass Music Mediation is a tool for music mediators that helps to plan, position and evaluate projects. It is work in progress and food for thought, offering a guideline for all music genres from classic to folk music, for target groups old and young, and for musical professions from the musician to the lyricist.
Publication of positioned projects and ideas
The positioned projects can be saved and printed with or without being made public.
For publication, you can choose from 2 categories under the menu item "Projects":
- "Projects": existing or precisely planned projects will be made public under "Projects" as a pdf file by the editorial department. The aim is to inform and compile an overview for the music mediation scene.
- "Visions": ideas and visions for fictitious or desirable projects will be published as pdf files under "Visions". The aims are to innovate and network cultural institutions and music mediators.
Content
- 5 Categories for positioning a project
- short info texts
- fictitious examples for reference
- fill-in-form for Compass
A music mediation project can be analysed via the 5 questions WHY, WHAT, HOW, TO WHOM and WHO. A project can be positioned by using the interactive graph, by adding remarks and by saving and/or publishing. Each category provides explanations and examples.
References
- Moersch, Carmen: "Zeit für Vermittlung. Eine Online-Publikation zur Kulturvermittlung" [Time to mediate. An online-publication for cultural mediation.] Published by the Institute for Art Education of the Zürcher Hochschule der Künste (ZHdK). Zurich, 2013.
- Wimmer, Constanze: Exchange. Die Kunst, Musik zu vermitteln. Qualitäten in der Musikvermittlung und Konzertpädagogik. [Exchange. The art of mediating music. Qualities in music mediation and concert pedagogy.] Salzburg: Internationale Stiftung Mozarteum, 2010.
Print Version
Compass is also available as a poster overview in German or French and can be purchased in Switzerland via contact(at)kultur-vermittlung.ch for CHF 5.00 per single copy (including mailing expenses). For KVS members the poster is free of charge (for up to 10 copies). For orders of 10 copies or more, there is a reduced charge of CHF 3.00 per copy (including mailing expenses).
Compass is available in the German version via netzwerk junge ohren e.V. at kontakt(at)jungeohren.de for EUR 1.50 per copy. Orders of 20 copies or more are charged at EUR 1.00 per copy plus mailing expenses.
The original diagrams of the print version are available as single pdf files in the download section.
Initiators and issuers
Kulturvermittlung Schweiz in cooperation with netzwerk junge ohren
The association Kulturvermittlung Schweiz asked music mediator and university teacher Barbara Balba Weber to design and develop a guideline for music mediation. Together with a team of six music mediators she compiled the basics for Compass. Lydia Grün, director of netzwerk junge ohren, supported her in the process. The findings of the author team were discussed and developed further with a large number of music mediators in an exemplary participatory process in Switzerland. The results were constantly incorporated in the formulation of Compass.
Authorship
The broadly based process was managed and conducted by Barbara Balba Weber, head of "Cluster Musikvermittlung" of the Hochschule der Künste Bern, and Lydia Grün, director of netzwerk junge ohren, in cooperation with:
Etienne Abelin, director of Ynight Zürich/ Markus Brülisauer, director of Haus der Volksmusik Altdorf/ Sabine Chatelain, lecturer at Haute École Pédagogique Lausanne/ Diana Lehnert of Horizonte Sinfonieorchester Luzern/ Olivier Membrez of Usinesonore, musician and music mediator in Bienne/ Irena Müller-Brozovic, director of tak.tik-werkstatt für Musikvermittlung Basel.
The intermediary results were reflected and supplemented twice by an extended circle of experts from Switzerland.