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From July 17 to August 17, 2005, I walked 250 miles across Switzerland. Every day I composed a new piece, wrote it down and performed it on the pocket trumpet at 6 p.m. All concerts took place out-of-doors in public spaces such as squares, harbors, intersections, sidewalks, and mountain-tops. Each piece was named after the date and location of the first performance.

Edition Wandelweiser Records released a CD of pieces from the trek on August 23rd, 2011. Brian Olewnick has called the CD a "wonderful recording". Read the full review here. Richard Pinnell has called the album "lovely". Read the full review here. Matthew Horne over at tiny mix tapes has reviewed it here.

Buy the CD here. To celebrate the release, I performed one track from the CD in a public space in New York City each evening at 6:30 pm from August 23rd to August 28th.

track listing

1. "Crêt de la Neuve, le 20 juillet 2005" (3:06) Christian Wolff, melodica
2. "Grottes de l'Orbe, le 22 juillet 2005" (3:37) Katie Porter, clarinet
3. "Vallorbe, le 23 juillet 2005" (7:23)
    Antoine Beuger, flute, Jürg Frey, clarinet, Marcus Kaiser, cello, Tobias Liebezeit, percussion
4. "St. Cergue, le 19 juillet 2005" (4:01) Jürg Frey, clarinet
5. "Genè, le 17 juillet 2005" (9:30) Antoine Beuger, flute
6. "Dornach, den 2. August 2005" (27:08) Marcus Kaiser, cello, Tobias Liebezeit, percussion


Listen to a rough edit of Katie Porter's performance of "Grottes de l'Orbe, le 22 juillet 2005".


Purchase a copy of the CD.
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Wandelweiser USA is currently accepting donations to cover development costs for the continuation of the On Foot project. Donate here.



The book documenting the project is available in English and German. The book contains 25 pages of text about the project, photos by Silvia Kamm-Gabathuler, and 31 scores of pieces composed on the text. Published by Edition Howeg.

98 pages, 7.5" x 7.5" | $50, €28 | ISBN 978-3-85736-256-9

"beautifully produced" --Dan Warburton, Paris Transatlantic

"spare, elegant" --Steve Smith, Time Out New York

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