Boundary-Crossing Explorer in Contemporary Arts

Charlotte Hug Raschèr is an experimental musician, composer and visual artist. In her work, she uses viola, voice, electronics and images to redefine and reinvent the boundaries between various disciplines. Born in Zurich in 1965, she invents her own playing techniques for her performances thanks to innovations such as the “soft bow”—or she uses the Son-Icons she has developed as visual scores.
Son-Icons lie at the heart of Charlotte Hug Raschèr’s artistic practice. These visual works fuse musical notation and graphic art, creating new interpretive possibilities for performers. The London improvisation scene profoundly shaped the artist’s development. Her compositions and spatial scores are performed by choirs, orchestras and interdisciplinary ensembles worldwide. In 2011, Hug Raschèr was honoured as Artiste Étoile at Lucerne Festival.
In her performances, Charlotte Hug Raschèr seeks out extreme environments and unconventional spaces—from the Rhône Glacier to prison cells. Her work thrives not only through collaborations with musicians and artists, but also through dialogues with scientists in fields like glaciology and sleep research. Constantly discovering new forms of expression in-between spaces, Hug Raschèr’s art challenges all our human senses. Following her April 2025 solo album IN RESONANCE WITH ELSEWHERE (FSR Records), Hug Raschèr will embark on a European tour in 2026.