The Montreux Jazz Digital Project

In 2007, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL) with President Patrick Aebischer and Montreux Sounds (Claude Nobs & Thierry Amsallem), owner of the audio-visual productions, have decided to join forces to create a unique and first of a kind, high resolution digital archive of the Festival.

Considered both as an educational tool and research infrastructure, this audiovisual heritage has become a unique platform for students and researchers to innovate in fields such as acoustics, image processing, data science, archiving, design, architecture, musicology, museology, or neurosciences.

250 people in 25 Research Labs, start-ups and partner institutions were involved at EPFL since 2010.

Driven by the EPFL Cultural Heritage & Innovation Center, the “Montreux Jazz Digital Project” is an accelerator for innovation in technology, culture, social sciences and open science.

A Montreux Jazz Café was created in 2016 on the EPFL campus. Integrated into the EPFL Pavilions building, it allows for a public showcase of the archive and new technologies developed by the EPFL and the numerous partners or associated startups.