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Communication is music

Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and that which cannot remain silent.

Victor Hugo

Playing together means listening, finding your cue and knowing your part. It is the same craft as in a team or in front of an audience. In music, you just hear it at once when something is off.

Communication and music have always belonged together for me. Music says what words alone cannot. That is why I bring it in where talking no longer helps: in teams, on stage, and where people need to find each other.

How I use music

When music sets things in motion

Recording studio with grand piano, drums and guitars, on the screen «Rockin' Team – The Great Rock'n'Roll Team Experience»
Two singers rehearsing at the microphone in the studio
A team standing in a circle, singing from sheet music
Team members with headphones singing at the microphone in the studio
The whole team cheering into the camera with raised arms
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Rockin' Team

Your team spends a day in the recording studio and records a song together. Not just a team event: listening, coordinating and creating as a group is the big lesson.

A team in the morning, a band with its own song by the evening.

Markus Aerni with guitar explains the song to the management team
The management team warming up in the hall with raised arms
Members of the management team singing their song from the sheet
Markus Aerni accompanies a group on guitar as they sing from the sheet
Group photo with Markus Aerni and his guitar after the strategy singing
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Strategies and songs

The concepts have been developed over the past few weeks; now they are to be internalised in a slightly different way: viceversa puts the mission, the visions, the goals and the values into a song. Vocal coaches guide the team into melody and lyrics, and at the end of the workshop everyone sings their strategy song together. That is how concepts truly get under the skin. And stick!

What a team sings together, it carries forward.

Open-air stage at Walk & Talk, band in concert
Confetti raining over the celebrating crowd at the Special Olympics
View from the stage over the packed square at Race for Life
Markus Aerni & Sweet Trouble on stage
Musicians together on stage at Ride for Life
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Stage and events

When an event should be more than a date in the calendar, everything comes from one hand, from the concept to the last encore.

  • Walk & Talk Annual event for people with chronic illness, with a closing concert by the lake.
  • Special Olympics Realisation of the National Summer Games in Bern.
  • Race for Life Charity concert with Gotthard, Philipp Fankhauser, Florian Ast and many more.
  • Markus Aerni & Sweet Trouble On tour with my band, also for corporate events.
  • Ride for Life Open-air of the charity project, with the «Music for Life Allstar Band».

From a patient gathering to a large solidarity festival.

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Songwriting for projects

Together with Nashville songwriter Tia Sillers, I wrote the song for the first edition of the charity project «Ride for Life». Used as its anthem for the years to come, arranged and recorded with Caroline Chevin, Markus Aerni and the band Take This.

A song that carries a project for years.

Markus Aerni with guitar and students on stage at Pattimura University in Ambon
Performance at the «3rd UNPATTI's Lingua Culture and Education Expo 2019»
Markus Aerni with students after the lecture «Communication strategies in the environment of the 4th technological revolution»
Students and musicians sitting in the rehearsal room, arms raised
Poster for the «Singing Voice» workshop with Markus Aerni, Ambon, 19–21 August 2019
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Ambon, City of Music

The singing visiting professor: at the invitation of Pattimura University in Ambon, Indonesia. Lectures at the Faculty of Economics and a music project with students and musicians from Ambon, many years after the civil war in the Moluccas. Sung and played as a small piece of the puzzle in bringing young people together.

Music can help where a civil war has left wounds. Ambon is the proof.

View past the musicians into the packed audience at the Scherzhaus
Musicians with accordion and guitars in a circle on stage
Two singers at the microphone in green light
Singer with guitar and a female singer on bar stools
Singer with closed eyes at the microphone
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Blue Monday 2027

Acoustic evenings modelled on the Bluebird Café in Nashville, at the Scherzhaus restaurant in Köniz: well-known Swiss musicians, up close. The test events were a hit; the first show is scheduled for March.

A touch of Nashville near Bern.

Music for your event

Looking for an event that people will remember?

A team that becomes a band, or an evening people talk about for a long time: tell me what you have in mind.

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