What if we told you it was possible to travel the length and breadth of Switzerland in less than 3 minutes? This is the adventure that Thylacine and Switzerland Tourism are proposing with their Swiss Sounds project. For 16 days, the artist criss-crossed the country, recording typical Swiss sounds. From trains to boats, buses to cable cars, our beautiful country tells its own melodic story as it travels. The result is an immersive sound experience that makes you want to escape… and might just encourage you to hop on the next train.
A breathtaking road trip
Map all the sounds of Switzerland and try to capture its essence in a single clip? Thylacine takes up the challenge with flying colors. French musician and producer William Rezé (real name) is first and foremost a travel enthusiast. It’s a passion he brings to every one of his projects: from the sounds of Transsiberian, produced while crossing Russia, to his latest album, born in a caravan in Namibia.
Here, for his Swiss epic, Thylacine didn’t do things by halves. 23 trains, 3 cable cars, 2 boats and 1 bus. All these means of transport took him to some of Switzerland’s most beautiful landscapes: perched on a cabin on Glacier 3000, immersed in a lake or deep in the ice of Zinal. A fluid, interconnected and wildly poeticadventure, to be listened to as much as imagined.
Switzerland as you’ve never heard it before
With Swiss Sounds, every landscape becomes a note and every journey a melody. The clatter of trains, the lapping of lakes, the rustle of fir trees or the crunch of snow… All these sounds merge into a single track, for a sonicimmersion that invites us to (re)discover every corner of Switzerland. Close your eyes, press “play” and let yourself be transported.