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THE NOW IN SOUND
26.05.2021 – 31.10.2021. The Norient Film Festival NFF explores the contemporary world through music and sound. Submit your film now on FilmFreeway. 10th Norient Film Festival 2021. 27.01.2021 – 21.02.2021. The 10th edition of the Norient Film Festival NFF will take place online on January 27–31 and February 19–21, 2021.ABOUT | NORIENT.COM
The Norient Space «The Now in Sound» tells new stories about the world through audio-visual exhibitions, academic and journalistic articles, podcasts, photography, video, film, experimental formats, curated collections, specials and the Norient Sound Series.It is an online magazine for the future, a meta platform to support other thinkers, artists, journals, and media, and a researcher’sMUSIC AND PLACE
Seismographic Sounds. Seismographic Sounds – Visions of a New World. €35.00. The second Norient book «Seismographic Sounds – Visions of a New World» introduces you to a contemporary world of distinct music and music videos. Written by 250 scholars, journalists, bloggers and musicians from 50 countries. purchase.2021: DUALITY
2021: Duality. by Vanja Kovačević. This episode of our 2021 video series is a musical conversation between two piano players. The video looks for situations of duality in the spaces around us. In finding each other, the protagonists find new hope for the second year of the pandemic. «On the ruins of the old world, new art will be born.». THE RISE OF REGGAETON The Rise of Reggaeton. That beat you’ve been hearing – the steady boom-ch-boom-chick rattling the trunks of passing cars and moving masses in the club – isn’t just another fleeting hip-hop trend. It’s the new sound of the Americas. Reggaeton has already accomplished something that other Latin musical forms – son, mambo,salsa
VIDEO TRACES: FROM ITALY Sonic Traces: From Italy. €16.00. The Norient Special «Sonic Traces: From Italy» is a multi-layered, multimedia approach to the open question of «Italian Identity» in sound and music. A 132 page print version of the Norient online Special. purchase. KICKS AND STRINGS FROM DURBAN Kicks and Strings from Durban. Gqom from Durban is being added to our Norient playlists for quite a while now. On our recent South African tour we finally met some of the producers of this deep and dark electronic music in different townships around Durban. We interviewed them, and edited, mixed and manipulated their voices and music. SBHAGWATI | NORIENT.COM Sandeep Bhagwati is an multiple award-winning composer, theatre director and media artist. He studied at Mozarteum Salzburg (Austria), Institut de Coordination Acoustique/Musique IRCAM Paris (France) and graduated with a Diplom in Composition from Hochschule für Musik und Theater München (Germany) His compositions and comprovisations in all genres (including 6 operas) have been performed byHLI | NORIENT.COM
Hannes Liechti lives in Bern, Switzerland, as a musicologist, curator, cultural producer, and music journalist. Since 2013, he is a member of the editorial board of Norient. He is active as a producing manager (Norient Film Festival NFF, 1+1, Sonic Fiction) and as a curator for the Norient Space The Now in Sound.In 2015, he co-published the second Norient book: Seismographic Sounds MUSIKETHNOLOGIE IN DER HEUTIGEN WELT Musikethnologie in der heutigen Welt. by Julio Mendívil. Die Geschichte des Fachs Musikethnologie ist von ständigen Reflexionen darüber geprägt, wie der Forschende dem «Anderen» begegnen soll. Die Enträumlichung und die virtuellen Distributionswege verlangen nun eine neue Inventur: Ist die Musikethnologin und der Musikethnologe vonheute
THE NOW IN SOUND
26.05.2021 – 31.10.2021. The Norient Film Festival NFF explores the contemporary world through music and sound. Submit your film now on FilmFreeway. 10th Norient Film Festival 2021. 27.01.2021 – 21.02.2021. The 10th edition of the Norient Film Festival NFF will take place online on January 27–31 and February 19–21, 2021.ABOUT | NORIENT.COM
The Norient Space «The Now in Sound» tells new stories about the world through audio-visual exhibitions, academic and journalistic articles, podcasts, photography, video, film, experimental formats, curated collections, specials and the Norient Sound Series.It is an online magazine for the future, a meta platform to support other thinkers, artists, journals, and media, and a researcher’sMUSIC AND PLACE
Seismographic Sounds. Seismographic Sounds – Visions of a New World. €35.00. The second Norient book «Seismographic Sounds – Visions of a New World» introduces you to a contemporary world of distinct music and music videos. Written by 250 scholars, journalists, bloggers and musicians from 50 countries. purchase.2021: DUALITY
2021: Duality. by Vanja Kovačević. This episode of our 2021 video series is a musical conversation between two piano players. The video looks for situations of duality in the spaces around us. In finding each other, the protagonists find new hope for the second year of the pandemic. «On the ruins of the old world, new art will be born.». THE RISE OF REGGAETON The Rise of Reggaeton. That beat you’ve been hearing – the steady boom-ch-boom-chick rattling the trunks of passing cars and moving masses in the club – isn’t just another fleeting hip-hop trend. It’s the new sound of the Americas. Reggaeton has already accomplished something that other Latin musical forms – son, mambo,salsa
VIDEO TRACES: FROM ITALY Sonic Traces: From Italy. €16.00. The Norient Special «Sonic Traces: From Italy» is a multi-layered, multimedia approach to the open question of «Italian Identity» in sound and music. A 132 page print version of the Norient online Special. purchase. KICKS AND STRINGS FROM DURBAN Kicks and Strings from Durban. Gqom from Durban is being added to our Norient playlists for quite a while now. On our recent South African tour we finally met some of the producers of this deep and dark electronic music in different townships around Durban. We interviewed them, and edited, mixed and manipulated their voices and music. SBHAGWATI | NORIENT.COM Sandeep Bhagwati is an multiple award-winning composer, theatre director and media artist. He studied at Mozarteum Salzburg (Austria), Institut de Coordination Acoustique/Musique IRCAM Paris (France) and graduated with a Diplom in Composition from Hochschule für Musik und Theater München (Germany) His compositions and comprovisations in all genres (including 6 operas) have been performed byHLI | NORIENT.COM
Hannes Liechti lives in Bern, Switzerland, as a musicologist, curator, cultural producer, and music journalist. Since 2013, he is a member of the editorial board of Norient. He is active as a producing manager (Norient Film Festival NFF, 1+1, Sonic Fiction) and as a curator for the Norient Space The Now in Sound.In 2015, he co-published the second Norient book: Seismographic Sounds MUSIKETHNOLOGIE IN DER HEUTIGEN WELT Musikethnologie in der heutigen Welt. by Julio Mendívil. Die Geschichte des Fachs Musikethnologie ist von ständigen Reflexionen darüber geprägt, wie der Forschende dem «Anderen» begegnen soll. Die Enträumlichung und die virtuellen Distributionswege verlangen nun eine neue Inventur: Ist die Musikethnologin und der Musikethnologe vonheute
TBU | NORIENT.COM
Dr. Thomas Burkhalter is an ethnomusicologist, interdisciplinary artist, and music journalist from Bern (Switzerland). He is the founder and director of Norient, the Norient Space (Norient.com), and the Norient Film Festival (NFF). He co-directed documentary films (e.g. Contradict, Berner Filmpreis 2020 + Al-Jazeera Witness) and AV/theatre/dance performances, is the author and co-editor of SAMPLING POLITICS TODAY Sampling Politics Today. In this first issue of the Norient Sound Series, we examine how political contexts of our time are transformed into musical production. Among many further accounts, we follow the sampling of car horns in Indonesia, read about an Italian refugee project that uses smartphones as sampling resources, and reflect onethical
REMIXING REFERENCES
Thomas Burkhalter is an ethnomusicologist (PhD), interdisciplinary artist, and music journalist from Bern (Switzerland). He is the founder and director of Norient, the Norient Space (Norient.com), and the Norient Film Festival (NFF). He co-directed documentary films (e.g. “Contradict”, Berner Filmpreis 2020 + Al-Jazeera Witness) and AV/theatre/dance performances, is the author and co CATHARTIC SOUNDS FROM SOUTH AMERICA Cathartic Sounds from South America. While the world is on pause, the music plays on. Listen to a wild Norient mixtape by Chico Dub, curator of the In/Out Festival. It reflects the marginalized music scenes in South America affected by the coronavirus, from endangered local street musicians to native communities, and transgender activistgroups.
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Aziz Tony chose these five videos to help the whole world discover the different cultures, dances, and ethnicities of Niger and the Sahelregion.
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Fatimata Hamadalher est l’une des premières femmes du Niger jouer de la guitare touarègue. Elle présente ici cinq clips vidéoNigériens.
HLI | NORIENT.COM
Hannes Liechti lives in Bern, Switzerland, as a musicologist, curator, cultural producer, and music journalist. Since 2013, he is a member of the editorial board of Norient. He is active as a producing manager (Norient Film Festival NFF, 1+1, Sonic Fiction) and as a curator for the Norient Space The Now in Sound.In 2015, he co-published the second Norient book: Seismographic Sounds 5 VIDEO CLIPS FROM COLOMBIA: MACHINES OF RESISTANCE Since April 28 2021, Colombians have been on a national strike to tackle inequality, poverty and historical exclusion. This video list is a short trip through audiovisualWHAT IS MUSIC FOR
DeForrest Brown Jr. is a techno artist and theorist based in New York. He releases music under the moniker Speaker Music, including the 2020 album «Black Nationalist Sonic Weaponry».FHAMADALHER
Fatimata Hamadalher est née en 1987.Elle habite toujours dans son village natal, Goofat, à 17km d’Agadez. Elle est passionnée de musique. Son désir a toujours été d’apprendre à jouer de laguitare.
THE NOW IN SOUND
26.05.2021 – 31.10.2021. The Norient Film Festival NFF explores the contemporary world through music and sound. Submit your film now on FilmFreeway. 10th Norient Film Festival 2021. 27.01.2021 – 21.02.2021. The 10th edition of the Norient Film Festival NFF will take place online on January 27–31 and February 19–21, 2021.ABOUT | NORIENT.COM
The Norient Space «The Now in Sound» tells new stories about the world through audio-visual exhibitions, academic and journalistic articles, podcasts, photography, video, film, experimental formats, curated collections, specials and the Norient Sound Series.It is an online magazine for the future, a meta platform to support other thinkers, artists, journals, and media, and a researcher’s TIMEZONES | NORIENT.COM The podcasts run the gamut of formats and content, from straight journalism to experimental and documentary approaches, ethnography and fiction, sound art and improvisation. The series is co-initiated and co-produced by Norient and the Goethe Institute. TIMEZONES –MUSIC AND PLACE
Seismographic Sounds. Seismographic Sounds – Visions of a New World. €35.00. The second Norient book «Seismographic Sounds – Visions of a New World» introduces you to a contemporary world of distinct music and music videos. Written by 250 scholars, journalists, bloggers and musicians from 50 countries. purchase.2021: DUALITY
2021: Duality. by Vanja Kovačević. This episode of our 2021 video series is a musical conversation between two piano players. The video looks for situations of duality in the spaces around us. In finding each other, the protagonists find new hope for the second year of the pandemic. «On the ruins of the old world, new art will be born.». SAMPLING POLITICS TODAY Sampling Politics Today. In this first issue of the Norient Sound Series, we examine how political contexts of our time are transformed into musical production. Among many further accounts, we follow the sampling of car horns in Indonesia, read about an Italian refugee project that uses smartphones as sampling resources, and reflect onethical
KICKS AND STRINGS FROM DURBAN Kicks and Strings from Durban. Gqom from Durban is being added to our Norient playlists for quite a while now. On our recent South African tour we finally met some of the producers of this deep and dark electronic music in different townships around Durban. We interviewed them, and edited, mixed and manipulated their voices and music. SBHAGWATI | NORIENT.COM Sandeep Bhagwati is an multiple award-winning composer, theatre director and media artist. He studied at Mozarteum Salzburg (Austria), Institut de Coordination Acoustique/Musique IRCAM Paris (France) and graduated with a Diplom in Composition from Hochschule für Musik und Theater München (Germany) His compositions and comprovisations in all genres (including 6 operas) have been performed by THE RISE OF REGGAETON The Rise of Reggaeton. That beat you’ve been hearing – the steady boom-ch-boom-chick rattling the trunks of passing cars and moving masses in the club – isn’t just another fleeting hip-hop trend. It’s the new sound of the Americas. Reggaeton has already accomplished something that other Latin musical forms – son, mambo,salsa
HLI | NORIENT.COM
Hannes Liechti lives in Bern, Switzerland, as a musicologist, curator, cultural producer, and music journalist. Since 2013, he is a member of the editorial board of Norient. He is active as a producing manager (Norient Film Festival NFF, 1+1, Sonic Fiction) and as a curator for the Norient Space The Now in Sound.In 2015, he co-published the second Norient book: Seismographic SoundsTHE NOW IN SOUND
26.05.2021 – 31.10.2021. The Norient Film Festival NFF explores the contemporary world through music and sound. Submit your film now on FilmFreeway. 10th Norient Film Festival 2021. 27.01.2021 – 21.02.2021. The 10th edition of the Norient Film Festival NFF will take place online on January 27–31 and February 19–21, 2021.ABOUT | NORIENT.COM
The Norient Space «The Now in Sound» tells new stories about the world through audio-visual exhibitions, academic and journalistic articles, podcasts, photography, video, film, experimental formats, curated collections, specials and the Norient Sound Series.It is an online magazine for the future, a meta platform to support other thinkers, artists, journals, and media, and a researcher’s TIMEZONES | NORIENT.COM The podcasts run the gamut of formats and content, from straight journalism to experimental and documentary approaches, ethnography and fiction, sound art and improvisation. The series is co-initiated and co-produced by Norient and the Goethe Institute. TIMEZONES –MUSIC AND PLACE
Seismographic Sounds. Seismographic Sounds – Visions of a New World. €35.00. The second Norient book «Seismographic Sounds – Visions of a New World» introduces you to a contemporary world of distinct music and music videos. Written by 250 scholars, journalists, bloggers and musicians from 50 countries. purchase.2021: DUALITY
2021: Duality. by Vanja Kovačević. This episode of our 2021 video series is a musical conversation between two piano players. The video looks for situations of duality in the spaces around us. In finding each other, the protagonists find new hope for the second year of the pandemic. «On the ruins of the old world, new art will be born.». SAMPLING POLITICS TODAY Sampling Politics Today. In this first issue of the Norient Sound Series, we examine how political contexts of our time are transformed into musical production. Among many further accounts, we follow the sampling of car horns in Indonesia, read about an Italian refugee project that uses smartphones as sampling resources, and reflect onethical
KICKS AND STRINGS FROM DURBAN Kicks and Strings from Durban. Gqom from Durban is being added to our Norient playlists for quite a while now. On our recent South African tour we finally met some of the producers of this deep and dark electronic music in different townships around Durban. We interviewed them, and edited, mixed and manipulated their voices and music. SBHAGWATI | NORIENT.COM Sandeep Bhagwati is an multiple award-winning composer, theatre director and media artist. He studied at Mozarteum Salzburg (Austria), Institut de Coordination Acoustique/Musique IRCAM Paris (France) and graduated with a Diplom in Composition from Hochschule für Musik und Theater München (Germany) His compositions and comprovisations in all genres (including 6 operas) have been performed by THE RISE OF REGGAETON The Rise of Reggaeton. That beat you’ve been hearing – the steady boom-ch-boom-chick rattling the trunks of passing cars and moving masses in the club – isn’t just another fleeting hip-hop trend. It’s the new sound of the Americas. Reggaeton has already accomplished something that other Latin musical forms – son, mambo,salsa
HLI | NORIENT.COM
Hannes Liechti lives in Bern, Switzerland, as a musicologist, curator, cultural producer, and music journalist. Since 2013, he is a member of the editorial board of Norient. He is active as a producing manager (Norient Film Festival NFF, 1+1, Sonic Fiction) and as a curator for the Norient Space The Now in Sound.In 2015, he co-published the second Norient book: Seismographic SoundsBOOKS | NORIENT.COM
Best known for conceiving music and sound as seismographs of our time, Norient Books attempts to melt these seismographs into nuanced stories of the now and tomorrow. We publish unconventional releases between art, journalism, and academia that reflect upon but also with its phenomena, covering a wide range of perspectives beyond people, continents, and disciplines.TBU | NORIENT.COM
Dr. Thomas Burkhalter is an ethnomusicologist, interdisciplinary artist, and music journalist from Bern (Switzerland). He is the founder and director of Norient, the Norient Space (Norient.com), and the Norient Film Festival (NFF). He co-directed documentary films (e.g. Contradict, Berner Filmpreis 2020 + Al-Jazeera Witness) and AV/theatre/dance performances, is the author and co-editor ofREMIXING REFERENCES
Thomas Burkhalter is an ethnomusicologist (PhD), interdisciplinary artist, and music journalist from Bern (Switzerland). He is the founder and director of Norient, the Norient Space (Norient.com), and the Norient Film Festival (NFF). He co-directed documentary films (e.g. “Contradict”, Berner Filmpreis 2020 + Al-Jazeera Witness) and AV/theatre/dance performances, is the author and co VIDEO TRACES: FROM ITALY Sonic Traces: From Italy. €16.00. The Norient Special «Sonic Traces: From Italy» is a multi-layered, multimedia approach to the open question of «Italian Identity» in sound and music. A 132 page print version of the Norient online Special. purchase.HLI | NORIENT.COM
Hannes Liechti lives in Bern, Switzerland, as a musicologist, curator, cultural producer, and music journalist. Since 2013, he is a member of the editorial board of Norient. He is active as a producing manager (Norient Film Festival NFF, 1+1, Sonic Fiction) and as a curator for the Norient Space The Now in Sound.In 2015, he co-published the second Norient book: Seismographic SoundsWHAT IS MUSIC FOR
DeForrest Brown Jr. is a techno artist and theorist based in New York. He releases music under the moniker Speaker Music, including the 2020 album «Black Nationalist Sonic Weaponry». FBUHRE | NORIENT.COM Franziska Buhre is the organizer of Berlin-based Klangteppich. Festival for music of the Iranian diaspora and a journalist for music. See her website here. LISTENING IS AT THE HEART OF WHAT I DO» Hadi Bastani is a sound artist, anthropologist, composer, and performer who has taught as a visiting lecturer in anthropology of music, media, and the arts at Queen’s University in Belfast. He graduated with a B.A. in music technology from the Institut Francilien d’Ingénierie, University of Marne-La-Vallée in Paris (2012), and with an M.A. in sonic arts from the Sonic Arts Research 5 VIDEO CLIPS FROM COLOMBIA: MACHINES OF RESISTANCE Since April 28 2021, Colombians have been on a national strike to tackle inequality, poverty and historical exclusion. This video list is a short trip through audiovisualFHAMADALHER
Fatimata Hamadalher est née en 1987.Elle habite toujours dans son village natal, Goofat, à 17km d’Agadez. Elle est passionnée de musique. Son désir a toujours été d’apprendre à jouer de laguitare.
THE NOW IN SOUND
26.05.2021 – 31.10.2021. The Norient Film Festival NFF explores the contemporary world through music and sound. Submit your film now on FilmFreeway. 10th Norient Film Festival 2021. 27.01.2021 – 21.02.2021. The 10th edition of the Norient Film Festival NFF will take place online on January 27–31 and February 19–21, 2021.ABOUT | NORIENT.COM
The Norient Space «The Now in Sound» tells new stories about the world through audio-visual exhibitions, academic and journalistic articles, podcasts, photography, video, film, experimental formats, curated collections, specials and the Norient Sound Series.It is an online magazine for the future, a meta platform to support other thinkers, artists, journals, and media, and a researcher’sMUSIC AND PLACE
Seismographic Sounds. Seismographic Sounds – Visions of a New World. €35.00. The second Norient book «Seismographic Sounds – Visions of a New World» introduces you to a contemporary world of distinct music and music videos. Written by 250 scholars, journalists, bloggers and musicians from 50 countries. purchase. TIMEZONES | NORIENT.COM The podcasts run the gamut of formats and content, from straight journalism to experimental and documentary approaches, ethnography and fiction, sound art and improvisation. The series is co-initiated and co-produced by Norient and the Goethe Institute. TIMEZONES –2021: DUALITY
2021: Duality. by Vanja Kovačević. This episode of our 2021 video series is a musical conversation between two piano players. The video looks for situations of duality in the spaces around us. In finding each other, the protagonists find new hope for the second year of the pandemic. «On the ruins of the old world, new art will be born.». KICKS AND STRINGS FROM DURBAN Kicks and Strings from Durban. Gqom from Durban is being added to our Norient playlists for quite a while now. On our recent South African tour we finally met some of the producers of this deep and dark electronic music in different townships around Durban. We interviewed them, and edited, mixed and manipulated their voices and music.WHAT IS MUSIC FOR
DeForrest Brown Jr. is a techno artist and theorist based in New York. He releases music under the moniker Speaker Music, including the 2020 album «Black Nationalist Sonic Weaponry». SBHAGWATI | NORIENT.COM Sandeep Bhagwati is an multiple award-winning composer, theatre director and media artist. He studied at Mozarteum Salzburg (Austria), Institut de Coordination Acoustique/Musique IRCAM Paris (France) and graduated with a Diplom in Composition from Hochschule für Musik und Theater München (Germany) His compositions and comprovisations in all genres (including 6 operas) have been performed by THE RISE OF REGGAETON The Rise of Reggaeton. That beat you’ve been hearing – the steady boom-ch-boom-chick rattling the trunks of passing cars and moving masses in the club – isn’t just another fleeting hip-hop trend. It’s the new sound of the Americas. Reggaeton has already accomplished something that other Latin musical forms – son, mambo,salsa
HLI | NORIENT.COM
Hannes Liechti lives in Bern, Switzerland, as a musicologist, curator, cultural producer, and music journalist. Since 2013, he is a member of the editorial board of Norient. He is active as a producing manager (Norient Film Festival NFF, 1+1, Sonic Fiction) and as a curator for the Norient Space The Now in Sound.In 2015, he co-published the second Norient book: Seismographic SoundsTHE NOW IN SOUND
26.05.2021 – 31.10.2021. The Norient Film Festival NFF explores the contemporary world through music and sound. Submit your film now on FilmFreeway. 10th Norient Film Festival 2021. 27.01.2021 – 21.02.2021. The 10th edition of the Norient Film Festival NFF will take place online on January 27–31 and February 19–21, 2021.ABOUT | NORIENT.COM
The Norient Space «The Now in Sound» tells new stories about the world through audio-visual exhibitions, academic and journalistic articles, podcasts, photography, video, film, experimental formats, curated collections, specials and the Norient Sound Series.It is an online magazine for the future, a meta platform to support other thinkers, artists, journals, and media, and a researcher’sMUSIC AND PLACE
Seismographic Sounds. Seismographic Sounds – Visions of a New World. €35.00. The second Norient book «Seismographic Sounds – Visions of a New World» introduces you to a contemporary world of distinct music and music videos. Written by 250 scholars, journalists, bloggers and musicians from 50 countries. purchase. TIMEZONES | NORIENT.COM The podcasts run the gamut of formats and content, from straight journalism to experimental and documentary approaches, ethnography and fiction, sound art and improvisation. The series is co-initiated and co-produced by Norient and the Goethe Institute. TIMEZONES –2021: DUALITY
2021: Duality. by Vanja Kovačević. This episode of our 2021 video series is a musical conversation between two piano players. The video looks for situations of duality in the spaces around us. In finding each other, the protagonists find new hope for the second year of the pandemic. «On the ruins of the old world, new art will be born.». KICKS AND STRINGS FROM DURBAN Kicks and Strings from Durban. Gqom from Durban is being added to our Norient playlists for quite a while now. On our recent South African tour we finally met some of the producers of this deep and dark electronic music in different townships around Durban. We interviewed them, and edited, mixed and manipulated their voices and music.WHAT IS MUSIC FOR
DeForrest Brown Jr. is a techno artist and theorist based in New York. He releases music under the moniker Speaker Music, including the 2020 album «Black Nationalist Sonic Weaponry». SBHAGWATI | NORIENT.COM Sandeep Bhagwati is an multiple award-winning composer, theatre director and media artist. He studied at Mozarteum Salzburg (Austria), Institut de Coordination Acoustique/Musique IRCAM Paris (France) and graduated with a Diplom in Composition from Hochschule für Musik und Theater München (Germany) His compositions and comprovisations in all genres (including 6 operas) have been performed by THE RISE OF REGGAETON The Rise of Reggaeton. That beat you’ve been hearing – the steady boom-ch-boom-chick rattling the trunks of passing cars and moving masses in the club – isn’t just another fleeting hip-hop trend. It’s the new sound of the Americas. Reggaeton has already accomplished something that other Latin musical forms – son, mambo,salsa
HLI | NORIENT.COM
Hannes Liechti lives in Bern, Switzerland, as a musicologist, curator, cultural producer, and music journalist. Since 2013, he is a member of the editorial board of Norient. He is active as a producing manager (Norient Film Festival NFF, 1+1, Sonic Fiction) and as a curator for the Norient Space The Now in Sound.In 2015, he co-published the second Norient book: Seismographic SoundsBOOKS | NORIENT.COM
Best known for conceiving music and sound as seismographs of our time, Norient Books attempts to melt these seismographs into nuanced stories of the now and tomorrow. We publish unconventional releases between art, journalism, and academia that reflect upon but also with its phenomena, covering a wide range of perspectives beyond people, continents, and disciplines.BECOME A MEMBER
Norient offers new stories and thoughts of our fast-changing world. Become a member, and get insights into possibilities, challenges, dreams and visions of today, through in-depth articles, podcasts, films, online and offline events, co-created by artists, scholars and journalists from across the globe. With your membership you support our ride and vision: the creation of a sustainable onlineTBU | NORIENT.COM
Dr. Thomas Burkhalter is an ethnomusicologist, interdisciplinary artist, and music journalist from Bern (Switzerland). He is the founder and director of Norient, the Norient Space (Norient.com), and the Norient Film Festival (NFF). He co-directed documentary films (e.g. Contradict, Berner Filmpreis 2020 + Al-Jazeera Witness) and AV/theatre/dance performances, is the author and co-editor ofATONY | NORIENT.COM
Aziz Tony is a musician and rapper from Niger. His lyrics, in French and Hausa, are inspired by traditional and contemporary culture from the Sahel region. After several tours in Niger and West Africa, Aziz Tony signed with the U.S. label Sahel Sounds of Portland.HLI | NORIENT.COM
Hannes Liechti lives in Bern, Switzerland, as a musicologist, curator, cultural producer, and music journalist. Since 2013, he is a member of the editorial board of Norient. He is active as a producing manager (Norient Film Festival NFF, 1+1, Sonic Fiction) and as a curator for the Norient Space The Now in Sound.In 2015, he co-published the second Norient book: Seismographic SoundsWHAT IS MUSIC FOR
DeForrest Brown Jr. is a techno artist and theorist based in New York. He releases music under the moniker Speaker Music, including the 2020 album «Black Nationalist Sonic Weaponry». FBUHRE | NORIENT.COM Franziska Buhre is the organizer of Berlin-based Klangteppich. Festival for music of the Iranian diaspora and a journalist for music. See her website here. 5 VIDEO CLIPS FROM COLOMBIA: MACHINES OF RESISTANCE Since April 28 2021, Colombians have been on a national strike to tackle inequality, poverty and historical exclusion. This video list is a short trip through audiovisual 5 VIDEO CLIPS FROM SAHEL ZONE This is the «kokowa» dance from the Hausa region, a dance of the wrestlers, played with the Ganga, tam tam, and Kazagui instruments. The music awakens the bravery and determination in the wrestlers, giving them strength to face their opponents. NAIROBI’S NEXT GENERATION MUSIC PRODUCERS AND PERFORMING Episode 1 of the Timezones podcast series, co-initiated and co-produced by Norient and the Goethe-Institut.. In recent years, small-scale studios in Nairobi have begun producing music locally, and some of their output reaches millions of listeners in Kenya, or createTHE NOW IN SOUND
26.05.2021 – 31.10.2021. The Norient Film Festival NFF explores the contemporary world through music and sound. Submit your film now on FilmFreeway. 10th Norient Film Festival 2021. 27.01.2021 – 21.02.2021. The 10th edition of the Norient Film Festival NFF will take place online on January 27–31 and February 19–21, 2021.ABOUT | NORIENT.COM
The Norient Space «The Now in Sound» tells new stories about the world through audio-visual exhibitions, academic and journalistic articles, podcasts, photography, video, film, experimental formats, curated collections, specials and the Norient Sound Series.It is an online magazine for the future, a meta platform to support other thinkers, artists, journals, and media, and a researcher’sSHOP | NORIENT.COM
CD, Digital. Golden Beirut – New Sounds from Lebanon. €18.00. The first CD release by norient and Outhere Records focuses on a young generation of musicians from Beirut that is tired of war, fed up with politics, sick of religious madness, and angry about Euro-American exoticism. purchase. TIMEZONES | NORIENT.COM The podcasts run the gamut of formats and content, from straight journalism to experimental and documentary approaches, ethnography and fiction, sound art and improvisation. The series is co-initiated and co-produced by Norient and the Goethe Institute. TIMEZONES –MUSIC AND PLACE
Seismographic Sounds. Seismographic Sounds – Visions of a New World. €35.00. The second Norient book «Seismographic Sounds – Visions of a New World» introduces you to a contemporary world of distinct music and music videos. Written by 250 scholars, journalists, bloggers and musicians from 50 countries. purchase. KICKS AND STRINGS FROM DURBAN Kicks and Strings from Durban. Podcast. by Thomas Burkhalter, Bit-Tuner. Daniel Jakob. Gqom from Durban is being added to our Norient playlists for quite a while now. On our recent South African tour we finally met some of the producers of this deep and darkelectronic music in
VIDEO TRACES: FROM ITALY Sonic Traces: From Italy. €16.00. The Norient Special «Sonic Traces: From Italy» is a multi-layered, multimedia approach to the open question of «Italian Identity» in sound and music. A 132 page print version of the Norient online Special. purchase. SBHAGWATI | NORIENT.COM Sandeep Bhagwati is an multiple award-winning composer, theatre director and media artist. He studied at Mozarteum Salzburg (Austria), Institut de Coordination Acoustique/Musique IRCAM Paris (France) and graduated with a Diplom in Composition from Hochschule für Musik und Theater München (Germany) His compositions and comprovisations in all genres (including 6 operas) have been performed byHLI | NORIENT.COM
Hannes Liechti lives in Bern, Switzerland, as a musicologist, curator, cultural producer, and music journalist. Since 2013, he is a member of the editorial board of Norient. He is active as a producing manager (Norient Film Festival NFF, 1+1, Sonic Fiction) and as a curator for the Norient Space The Now in Sound.In 2015, he co-published the second Norient book: Seismographic Sounds DRUNKEN IN THE STREETS OF BRUSSELS Drunken in the Streets of Brussels. Stromae’s viral music video Formidable» reached almost 120 million YouTube hits in two years. We talked to Belgian music video director Jérôme Guiot about the process of creating buzz and how marketing strategies have become an integral part of producing contemporary music.THE NOW IN SOUND
26.05.2021 – 31.10.2021. The Norient Film Festival NFF explores the contemporary world through music and sound. Submit your film now on FilmFreeway. 10th Norient Film Festival 2021. 27.01.2021 – 21.02.2021. The 10th edition of the Norient Film Festival NFF will take place online on January 27–31 and February 19–21, 2021.ABOUT | NORIENT.COM
The Norient Space «The Now in Sound» tells new stories about the world through audio-visual exhibitions, academic and journalistic articles, podcasts, photography, video, film, experimental formats, curated collections, specials and the Norient Sound Series.It is an online magazine for the future, a meta platform to support other thinkers, artists, journals, and media, and a researcher’sSHOP | NORIENT.COM
CD, Digital. Golden Beirut – New Sounds from Lebanon. €18.00. The first CD release by norient and Outhere Records focuses on a young generation of musicians from Beirut that is tired of war, fed up with politics, sick of religious madness, and angry about Euro-American exoticism. purchase. TIMEZONES | NORIENT.COM The podcasts run the gamut of formats and content, from straight journalism to experimental and documentary approaches, ethnography and fiction, sound art and improvisation. The series is co-initiated and co-produced by Norient and the Goethe Institute. TIMEZONES –MUSIC AND PLACE
Seismographic Sounds. Seismographic Sounds – Visions of a New World. €35.00. The second Norient book «Seismographic Sounds – Visions of a New World» introduces you to a contemporary world of distinct music and music videos. Written by 250 scholars, journalists, bloggers and musicians from 50 countries. purchase. KICKS AND STRINGS FROM DURBAN Kicks and Strings from Durban. Podcast. by Thomas Burkhalter, Bit-Tuner. Daniel Jakob. Gqom from Durban is being added to our Norient playlists for quite a while now. On our recent South African tour we finally met some of the producers of this deep and darkelectronic music in
VIDEO TRACES: FROM ITALY Sonic Traces: From Italy. €16.00. The Norient Special «Sonic Traces: From Italy» is a multi-layered, multimedia approach to the open question of «Italian Identity» in sound and music. A 132 page print version of the Norient online Special. purchase. SBHAGWATI | NORIENT.COM Sandeep Bhagwati is an multiple award-winning composer, theatre director and media artist. He studied at Mozarteum Salzburg (Austria), Institut de Coordination Acoustique/Musique IRCAM Paris (France) and graduated with a Diplom in Composition from Hochschule für Musik und Theater München (Germany) His compositions and comprovisations in all genres (including 6 operas) have been performed byHLI | NORIENT.COM
Hannes Liechti lives in Bern, Switzerland, as a musicologist, curator, cultural producer, and music journalist. Since 2013, he is a member of the editorial board of Norient. He is active as a producing manager (Norient Film Festival NFF, 1+1, Sonic Fiction) and as a curator for the Norient Space The Now in Sound.In 2015, he co-published the second Norient book: Seismographic Sounds DRUNKEN IN THE STREETS OF BRUSSELS Drunken in the Streets of Brussels. Stromae’s viral music video Formidable» reached almost 120 million YouTube hits in two years. We talked to Belgian music video director Jérôme Guiot about the process of creating buzz and how marketing strategies have become an integral part of producing contemporary music.SHOP | NORIENT.COM
CD, Digital. Golden Beirut – New Sounds from Lebanon. €18.00. The first CD release by norient and Outhere Records focuses on a young generation of musicians from Beirut that is tired of war, fed up with politics, sick of religious madness, and angry about Euro-American exoticism. purchase. TOPICS | NORIENT.COM Dance. From breakdance in Baghdad, the rebel dance pantsula in South Africa to the role of intoxications in club music: Dance can be a form a self-expression or self-loosing. Depression. Desire. Desires are produced personally and impersonally: About music as desiring machine and the elasticity ofBOOKS | NORIENT.COM
Best known for conceiving music and sound as seismographs of our time, Norient Books attempts to melt these seismographs into nuanced stories of the now and tomorrow. We publish unconventional releases between art, journalism, and academia that reflect upon but also with its phenomena, covering a wide range of perspectives beyond people, continents, and disciplines.UNDERGROUND
As a basic member, you can dig deep in the «underground», explore all curated collections (specials), and receive tools like topics (a well-curated index) for better navigation. As a researcher, you get access to the Norient Researcher’s Space that offers a growing number of interviews, academic publications, and raw research footage.You
PUBLISHING WITH NORIENT We welcome unconventional and interesting proposals in subject areas between art, journalism, and academia with a focus on music, sound,and noise.
TBU | NORIENT.COM
Dr. Thomas Burkhalter is an ethnomusicologist, interdisciplinary artist, and music journalist from Bern (Switzerland). He is the founder and director of Norient, the Norient Space (Norient.com), and the Norient Film Festival (NFF). He co-directed documentary films (e.g. Contradict, Berner Filmpreis 2020 + Al-Jazeera Witness) and AV/theatre/dance performances, is the author and co-editor ofATONY | NORIENT.COM
Aziz Tony is a musician and rapper from Niger. His lyrics, in French and Hausa, are inspired by traditional and contemporary culture from the Sahel region. After several tours in Niger and West Africa, Aziz Tony signed with the U.S. label Sahel Sounds of Portland.HLI | NORIENT.COM
Hannes Liechti lives in Bern, Switzerland, as a musicologist, curator, cultural producer, and music journalist. Since 2013, he is a member of the editorial board of Norient. He is active as a producing manager (Norient Film Festival NFF, 1+1, Sonic Fiction) and as a curator for the Norient Space The Now in Sound.In 2015, he co-published the second Norient book: Seismographic Sounds FBUHRE | NORIENT.COM Franziska Buhre is the organizer of Berlin-based Klangteppich. Festival for music of the Iranian diaspora and a journalist for music. See her website here. 5 VIDEO CLIPS FROM SAHEL ZONE This is the «kokowa» dance from the Hausa region, a dance of the wrestlers, played with the Ganga, tam tam, and Kazagui instruments. The music awakens the bravery and determination in the wrestlers, giving them strength to face their opponents.THE NOW IN SOUND
26.05.2021 – 31.10.2021. The Norient Film Festival NFF explores the contemporary world through music and sound. Submit your film now on FilmFreeway. 10th Norient Film Festival 2021. 27.01.2021 – 21.02.2021. The 10th edition of the Norient Film Festival NFF will take place online on January 27–31 and February 19–21, 2021.ABOUT | NORIENT.COM
The Norient Space «The Now in Sound» tells new stories about the world through audio-visual exhibitions, academic and journalistic articles, podcasts, photography, video, film, experimental formats, curated collections, specials and the Norient Sound Series.It is an online magazine for the future, a meta platform to support other thinkers, artists, journals, and media, and a researcher’sSHOP | NORIENT.COM
CD, Digital. Golden Beirut – New Sounds from Lebanon. €18.00. The first CD release by norient and Outhere Records focuses on a young generation of musicians from Beirut that is tired of war, fed up with politics, sick of religious madness, and angry about Euro-American exoticism. purchase. TIMEZONES | NORIENT.COM The podcasts run the gamut of formats and content, from straight journalism to experimental and documentary approaches, ethnography and fiction, sound art and improvisation. The series is co-initiated and co-produced by Norient and the Goethe Institute. TIMEZONES –MUSIC AND PLACE
Seismographic Sounds. Seismographic Sounds – Visions of a New World. €35.00. The second Norient book «Seismographic Sounds – Visions of a New World» introduces you to a contemporary world of distinct music and music videos. Written by 250 scholars, journalists, bloggers and musicians from 50 countries. purchase. KICKS AND STRINGS FROM DURBAN Kicks and Strings from Durban. Podcast. by Thomas Burkhalter, Bit-Tuner. Daniel Jakob. Gqom from Durban is being added to our Norient playlists for quite a while now. On our recent South African tour we finally met some of the producers of this deep and darkelectronic music in
VIDEO TRACES: FROM ITALY Sonic Traces: From Italy. €16.00. The Norient Special «Sonic Traces: From Italy» is a multi-layered, multimedia approach to the open question of «Italian Identity» in sound and music. A 132 page print version of the Norient online Special. purchase. SBHAGWATI | NORIENT.COM Sandeep Bhagwati is an multiple award-winning composer, theatre director and media artist. He studied at Mozarteum Salzburg (Austria), Institut de Coordination Acoustique/Musique IRCAM Paris (France) and graduated with a Diplom in Composition from Hochschule für Musik und Theater München (Germany) His compositions and comprovisations in all genres (including 6 operas) have been performed byHLI | NORIENT.COM
Hannes Liechti lives in Bern, Switzerland, as a musicologist, curator, cultural producer, and music journalist. Since 2013, he is a member of the editorial board of Norient. He is active as a producing manager (Norient Film Festival NFF, 1+1, Sonic Fiction) and as a curator for the Norient Space The Now in Sound.In 2015, he co-published the second Norient book: Seismographic Sounds DRUNKEN IN THE STREETS OF BRUSSELS Drunken in the Streets of Brussels. Stromae’s viral music video Formidable» reached almost 120 million YouTube hits in two years. We talked to Belgian music video director Jérôme Guiot about the process of creating buzz and how marketing strategies have become an integral part of producing contemporary music.THE NOW IN SOUND
26.05.2021 – 31.10.2021. The Norient Film Festival NFF explores the contemporary world through music and sound. Submit your film now on FilmFreeway. 10th Norient Film Festival 2021. 27.01.2021 – 21.02.2021. The 10th edition of the Norient Film Festival NFF will take place online on January 27–31 and February 19–21, 2021.ABOUT | NORIENT.COM
The Norient Space «The Now in Sound» tells new stories about the world through audio-visual exhibitions, academic and journalistic articles, podcasts, photography, video, film, experimental formats, curated collections, specials and the Norient Sound Series.It is an online magazine for the future, a meta platform to support other thinkers, artists, journals, and media, and a researcher’sSHOP | NORIENT.COM
CD, Digital. Golden Beirut – New Sounds from Lebanon. €18.00. The first CD release by norient and Outhere Records focuses on a young generation of musicians from Beirut that is tired of war, fed up with politics, sick of religious madness, and angry about Euro-American exoticism. purchase. TIMEZONES | NORIENT.COM The podcasts run the gamut of formats and content, from straight journalism to experimental and documentary approaches, ethnography and fiction, sound art and improvisation. The series is co-initiated and co-produced by Norient and the Goethe Institute. TIMEZONES –MUSIC AND PLACE
Seismographic Sounds. Seismographic Sounds – Visions of a New World. €35.00. The second Norient book «Seismographic Sounds – Visions of a New World» introduces you to a contemporary world of distinct music and music videos. Written by 250 scholars, journalists, bloggers and musicians from 50 countries. purchase. KICKS AND STRINGS FROM DURBAN Kicks and Strings from Durban. Podcast. by Thomas Burkhalter, Bit-Tuner. Daniel Jakob. Gqom from Durban is being added to our Norient playlists for quite a while now. On our recent South African tour we finally met some of the producers of this deep and darkelectronic music in
VIDEO TRACES: FROM ITALY Sonic Traces: From Italy. €16.00. The Norient Special «Sonic Traces: From Italy» is a multi-layered, multimedia approach to the open question of «Italian Identity» in sound and music. A 132 page print version of the Norient online Special. purchase. SBHAGWATI | NORIENT.COM Sandeep Bhagwati is an multiple award-winning composer, theatre director and media artist. He studied at Mozarteum Salzburg (Austria), Institut de Coordination Acoustique/Musique IRCAM Paris (France) and graduated with a Diplom in Composition from Hochschule für Musik und Theater München (Germany) His compositions and comprovisations in all genres (including 6 operas) have been performed byHLI | NORIENT.COM
Hannes Liechti lives in Bern, Switzerland, as a musicologist, curator, cultural producer, and music journalist. Since 2013, he is a member of the editorial board of Norient. He is active as a producing manager (Norient Film Festival NFF, 1+1, Sonic Fiction) and as a curator for the Norient Space The Now in Sound.In 2015, he co-published the second Norient book: Seismographic Sounds DRUNKEN IN THE STREETS OF BRUSSELS Drunken in the Streets of Brussels. Stromae’s viral music video Formidable» reached almost 120 million YouTube hits in two years. We talked to Belgian music video director Jérôme Guiot about the process of creating buzz and how marketing strategies have become an integral part of producing contemporary music.SHOP | NORIENT.COM
CD, Digital. Golden Beirut – New Sounds from Lebanon. €18.00. The first CD release by norient and Outhere Records focuses on a young generation of musicians from Beirut that is tired of war, fed up with politics, sick of religious madness, and angry about Euro-American exoticism. purchase. TOPICS | NORIENT.COM Dance. From breakdance in Baghdad, the rebel dance pantsula in South Africa to the role of intoxications in club music: Dance can be a form a self-expression or self-loosing. Depression. Desire. Desires are produced personally and impersonally: About music as desiring machine and the elasticity ofBOOKS | NORIENT.COM
Best known for conceiving music and sound as seismographs of our time, Norient Books attempts to melt these seismographs into nuanced stories of the now and tomorrow. We publish unconventional releases between art, journalism, and academia that reflect upon but also with its phenomena, covering a wide range of perspectives beyond people, continents, and disciplines.UNDERGROUND
As a basic member, you can dig deep in the «underground», explore all curated collections (specials), and receive tools like topics (a well-curated index) for better navigation. As a researcher, you get access to the Norient Researcher’s Space that offers a growing number of interviews, academic publications, and raw research footage.You
PUBLISHING WITH NORIENT We welcome unconventional and interesting proposals in subject areas between art, journalism, and academia with a focus on music, sound,and noise.
TBU | NORIENT.COM
Dr. Thomas Burkhalter is an ethnomusicologist, interdisciplinary artist, and music journalist from Bern (Switzerland). He is the founder and director of Norient, the Norient Space (Norient.com), and the Norient Film Festival (NFF). He co-directed documentary films (e.g. Contradict, Berner Filmpreis 2020 + Al-Jazeera Witness) and AV/theatre/dance performances, is the author and co-editor ofATONY | NORIENT.COM
Aziz Tony is a musician and rapper from Niger. His lyrics, in French and Hausa, are inspired by traditional and contemporary culture from the Sahel region. After several tours in Niger and West Africa, Aziz Tony signed with the U.S. label Sahel Sounds of Portland.HLI | NORIENT.COM
Hannes Liechti lives in Bern, Switzerland, as a musicologist, curator, cultural producer, and music journalist. Since 2013, he is a member of the editorial board of Norient. He is active as a producing manager (Norient Film Festival NFF, 1+1, Sonic Fiction) and as a curator for the Norient Space The Now in Sound.In 2015, he co-published the second Norient book: Seismographic Sounds FBUHRE | NORIENT.COM Franziska Buhre is the organizer of Berlin-based Klangteppich. Festival for music of the Iranian diaspora and a journalist for music. See her website here. 5 VIDEO CLIPS FROM SAHEL ZONE This is the «kokowa» dance from the Hausa region, a dance of the wrestlers, played with the Ganga, tam tam, and Kazagui instruments. The music awakens the bravery and determination in the wrestlers, giving them strength to face their opponents.THE NOW IN SOUND
26.05.2021 – 31.10.2021. The Norient Film Festival NFF explores the contemporary world through music and sound. Submit your film now on FilmFreeway. 10th Norient Film Festival 2021. 27.01.2021 – 21.02.2021. The 10th edition of the Norient Film Festival NFF will take place online on January 27–31 and February 19–21, 2021.ABOUT | NORIENT.COM
The Norient Space «The Now in Sound» tells new stories about the world through audio-visual exhibitions, academic and journalistic articles, podcasts, photography, video, film, experimental formats, curated collections, specials and the Norient Sound Series.It is an online magazine for the future, a meta platform to support other thinkers, artists, journals, and media, and a researcher’sSHOP | NORIENT.COM
CD, Digital. Golden Beirut – New Sounds from Lebanon. €18.00. The first CD release by norient and Outhere Records focuses on a young generation of musicians from Beirut that is tired of war, fed up with politics, sick of religious madness, and angry about Euro-American exoticism. purchase. TIMEZONES | NORIENT.COM The podcasts run the gamut of formats and content, from straight journalism to experimental and documentary approaches, ethnography and fiction, sound art and improvisation. The series is co-initiated and co-produced by Norient and the Goethe Institute. TIMEZONES – SBHAGWATI | NORIENT.COM Sandeep Bhagwati is an multiple award-winning composer, theatre director and media artist. He studied at Mozarteum Salzburg (Austria), Institut de Coordination Acoustique/Musique IRCAM Paris (France) and graduated with a Diplom in Composition from Hochschule für Musik und Theater München (Germany) His compositions and comprovisations in all genres (including 6 operas) have been performed byMUSIC AND PLACE
Seismographic Sounds. Seismographic Sounds – Visions of a New World. €35.00. The second Norient book «Seismographic Sounds – Visions of a New World» introduces you to a contemporary world of distinct music and music videos. Written by 250 scholars, journalists, bloggers and musicians from 50 countries. purchase. VIDEO TRACES: FROM ITALY Sonic Traces: From Italy. €16.00. The Norient Special «Sonic Traces: From Italy» is a multi-layered, multimedia approach to the open question of «Italian Identity» in sound and music. A 132 page print version of the Norient online Special. purchase. KICKS AND STRINGS FROM DURBAN Kicks and Strings from Durban. Podcast. by Thomas Burkhalter, Bit-Tuner. Daniel Jakob. Gqom from Durban is being added to our Norient playlists for quite a while now. On our recent South African tour we finally met some of the producers of this deep and darkelectronic music in
DRUNKEN IN THE STREETS OF BRUSSELS Drunken in the Streets of Brussels. Stromae’s viral music video Formidable» reached almost 120 million YouTube hits in two years. We talked to Belgian music video director Jérôme Guiot about the process of creating buzz and how marketing strategies have become an integral part of producing contemporary music. BLACK METAL IN GEORGIA Black Metal in Georgia. While Heavy Metal has been around already in Soviet-times, it was not until 1995 that the first Black Metal concert in Georgia took place. In the interview the Black Metal veteran Vaso Doiashvili who plays in the Band Ruins of Faith opens up and tells about his experiences: how the orthodox church, the Georgian mentalityTHE NOW IN SOUND
26.05.2021 – 31.10.2021. The Norient Film Festival NFF explores the contemporary world through music and sound. Submit your film now on FilmFreeway. 10th Norient Film Festival 2021. 27.01.2021 – 21.02.2021. The 10th edition of the Norient Film Festival NFF will take place online on January 27–31 and February 19–21, 2021.ABOUT | NORIENT.COM
The Norient Space «The Now in Sound» tells new stories about the world through audio-visual exhibitions, academic and journalistic articles, podcasts, photography, video, film, experimental formats, curated collections, specials and the Norient Sound Series.It is an online magazine for the future, a meta platform to support other thinkers, artists, journals, and media, and a researcher’sSHOP | NORIENT.COM
CD, Digital. Golden Beirut – New Sounds from Lebanon. €18.00. The first CD release by norient and Outhere Records focuses on a young generation of musicians from Beirut that is tired of war, fed up with politics, sick of religious madness, and angry about Euro-American exoticism. purchase. TIMEZONES | NORIENT.COM The podcasts run the gamut of formats and content, from straight journalism to experimental and documentary approaches, ethnography and fiction, sound art and improvisation. The series is co-initiated and co-produced by Norient and the Goethe Institute. TIMEZONES – SBHAGWATI | NORIENT.COM Sandeep Bhagwati is an multiple award-winning composer, theatre director and media artist. He studied at Mozarteum Salzburg (Austria), Institut de Coordination Acoustique/Musique IRCAM Paris (France) and graduated with a Diplom in Composition from Hochschule für Musik und Theater München (Germany) His compositions and comprovisations in all genres (including 6 operas) have been performed byMUSIC AND PLACE
Seismographic Sounds. Seismographic Sounds – Visions of a New World. €35.00. The second Norient book «Seismographic Sounds – Visions of a New World» introduces you to a contemporary world of distinct music and music videos. Written by 250 scholars, journalists, bloggers and musicians from 50 countries. purchase. VIDEO TRACES: FROM ITALY Sonic Traces: From Italy. €16.00. The Norient Special «Sonic Traces: From Italy» is a multi-layered, multimedia approach to the open question of «Italian Identity» in sound and music. A 132 page print version of the Norient online Special. purchase. KICKS AND STRINGS FROM DURBAN Kicks and Strings from Durban. Podcast. by Thomas Burkhalter, Bit-Tuner. Daniel Jakob. Gqom from Durban is being added to our Norient playlists for quite a while now. On our recent South African tour we finally met some of the producers of this deep and darkelectronic music in
DRUNKEN IN THE STREETS OF BRUSSELS Drunken in the Streets of Brussels. Stromae’s viral music video Formidable» reached almost 120 million YouTube hits in two years. We talked to Belgian music video director Jérôme Guiot about the process of creating buzz and how marketing strategies have become an integral part of producing contemporary music. BLACK METAL IN GEORGIA Black Metal in Georgia. While Heavy Metal has been around already in Soviet-times, it was not until 1995 that the first Black Metal concert in Georgia took place. In the interview the Black Metal veteran Vaso Doiashvili who plays in the Band Ruins of Faith opens up and tells about his experiences: how the orthodox church, the Georgian mentality TOPICS | NORIENT.COM Dance. From breakdance in Baghdad, the rebel dance pantsula in South Africa to the role of intoxications in club music: Dance can be a form a self-expression or self-loosing. Depression. Desire. Desires are produced personally and impersonally: About music as desiring machine and the elasticity ofBOOKS | NORIENT.COM
Best known for conceiving music and sound as seismographs of our time, Norient Books attempts to melt these seismographs into nuanced stories of the now and tomorrow. We publish unconventional releases between art, journalism, and academia that reflect upon but also with its phenomena, covering a wide range of perspectives beyond people, continents, and disciplines.BECOME A MEMBER
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As a basic member, you can dig deep in the «underground», explore all curated collections (specials), and receive tools like topics (a well-curated index) for better navigation. As a researcher, you get access to the Norient Researcher’s Space that offers a growing number of interviews, academic publications, and raw research footage.You
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Aziz Tony is a musician and rapper from Niger. His lyrics, in French and Hausa, are inspired by traditional and contemporary culture from the Sahel region. After several tours in Niger and West Africa, Aziz Tony signed with the U.S. label Sahel Sounds of Portland. COLLABORATIONS INSTEAD OF HIERARCHIES Yalda Zamani is a conductor, researcher, and performer based in Germany, interested in transdisciplinary approaches in contemporary music performance, computational creativity, live coding, and the application of machine learning models in combination with motion-sensing technologies. Recently, she was granted a two-year doctoral research fellowship from the city of Hamburg and theLMASCARENHAS
Laura Mascarenhas is a multimedia Visual Artist and Art Director based in Berlin. Through her work, Laura captures atmospheres, moods and ideas to unveil and explore worlds that be mysterious and unknown. Born and raised in São Paulo, Brazil, and holding a Master of Arts from Hochschule Anhalt / Bauhaus Dessau, Laura has participated in art fairs and exhibitions around the world.THE NOW IN SOUND
26.05.2021 – 31.10.2021. The Norient Film Festival NFF explores the contemporary world through music and sound. Submit your film now on FilmFreeway. 10th Norient Film Festival 2021. 27.01.2021 – 21.02.2021. The 10th edition of the Norient Film Festival NFF will take place online on January 27–31 and February 19–21, 2021.ABOUT | NORIENT.COM
The Norient Space «The Now in Sound» tells new stories about the world through audio-visual exhibitions, academic and journalistic articles, podcasts, photography, video, film, experimental formats, curated collections, specials and the Norient Sound Series.It is an online magazine for the future, a meta platform to support other thinkers, artists, journals, and media, and a researcher’sSHOP | NORIENT.COM
CD, Digital. Golden Beirut – New Sounds from Lebanon. €18.00. The first CD release by norient and Outhere Records focuses on a young generation of musicians from Beirut that is tired of war, fed up with politics, sick of religious madness, and angry about Euro-American exoticism. purchase. TIMEZONES | NORIENT.COM The podcasts run the gamut of formats and content, from straight journalism to experimental and documentary approaches, ethnography and fiction, sound art and improvisation. The series is co-initiated and co-produced by Norient and the Goethe Institute. TIMEZONES – SBHAGWATI | NORIENT.COM Sandeep Bhagwati is an multiple award-winning composer, theatre director and media artist. He studied at Mozarteum Salzburg (Austria), Institut de Coordination Acoustique/Musique IRCAM Paris (France) and graduated with a Diplom in Composition from Hochschule für Musik und Theater München (Germany) His compositions and comprovisations in all genres (including 6 operas) have been performed byMUSIC AND PLACE
Seismographic Sounds. Seismographic Sounds – Visions of a New World. €35.00. The second Norient book «Seismographic Sounds – Visions of a New World» introduces you to a contemporary world of distinct music and music videos. Written by 250 scholars, journalists, bloggers and musicians from 50 countries. purchase. VIDEO TRACES: FROM ITALY Sonic Traces: From Italy. €16.00. The Norient Special «Sonic Traces: From Italy» is a multi-layered, multimedia approach to the open question of «Italian Identity» in sound and music. A 132 page print version of the Norient online Special. purchase. KICKS AND STRINGS FROM DURBAN Kicks and Strings from Durban. Podcast. by Thomas Burkhalter, Bit-Tuner. Daniel Jakob. Gqom from Durban is being added to our Norient playlists for quite a while now. On our recent South African tour we finally met some of the producers of this deep and darkelectronic music in
DRUNKEN IN THE STREETS OF BRUSSELS Drunken in the Streets of Brussels. Stromae’s viral music video Formidable» reached almost 120 million YouTube hits in two years. We talked to Belgian music video director Jérôme Guiot about the process of creating buzz and how marketing strategies have become an integral part of producing contemporary music. BLACK METAL IN GEORGIA Black Metal in Georgia. While Heavy Metal has been around already in Soviet-times, it was not until 1995 that the first Black Metal concert in Georgia took place. In the interview the Black Metal veteran Vaso Doiashvili who plays in the Band Ruins of Faith opens up and tells about his experiences: how the orthodox church, the Georgian mentalityTHE NOW IN SOUND
26.05.2021 – 31.10.2021. The Norient Film Festival NFF explores the contemporary world through music and sound. Submit your film now on FilmFreeway. 10th Norient Film Festival 2021. 27.01.2021 – 21.02.2021. The 10th edition of the Norient Film Festival NFF will take place online on January 27–31 and February 19–21, 2021.ABOUT | NORIENT.COM
The Norient Space «The Now in Sound» tells new stories about the world through audio-visual exhibitions, academic and journalistic articles, podcasts, photography, video, film, experimental formats, curated collections, specials and the Norient Sound Series.It is an online magazine for the future, a meta platform to support other thinkers, artists, journals, and media, and a researcher’sSHOP | NORIENT.COM
CD, Digital. Golden Beirut – New Sounds from Lebanon. €18.00. The first CD release by norient and Outhere Records focuses on a young generation of musicians from Beirut that is tired of war, fed up with politics, sick of religious madness, and angry about Euro-American exoticism. purchase. TIMEZONES | NORIENT.COM The podcasts run the gamut of formats and content, from straight journalism to experimental and documentary approaches, ethnography and fiction, sound art and improvisation. The series is co-initiated and co-produced by Norient and the Goethe Institute. TIMEZONES – SBHAGWATI | NORIENT.COM Sandeep Bhagwati is an multiple award-winning composer, theatre director and media artist. He studied at Mozarteum Salzburg (Austria), Institut de Coordination Acoustique/Musique IRCAM Paris (France) and graduated with a Diplom in Composition from Hochschule für Musik und Theater München (Germany) His compositions and comprovisations in all genres (including 6 operas) have been performed byMUSIC AND PLACE
Seismographic Sounds. Seismographic Sounds – Visions of a New World. €35.00. The second Norient book «Seismographic Sounds – Visions of a New World» introduces you to a contemporary world of distinct music and music videos. Written by 250 scholars, journalists, bloggers and musicians from 50 countries. purchase. VIDEO TRACES: FROM ITALY Sonic Traces: From Italy. €16.00. The Norient Special «Sonic Traces: From Italy» is a multi-layered, multimedia approach to the open question of «Italian Identity» in sound and music. A 132 page print version of the Norient online Special. purchase. KICKS AND STRINGS FROM DURBAN Kicks and Strings from Durban. Podcast. by Thomas Burkhalter, Bit-Tuner. Daniel Jakob. Gqom from Durban is being added to our Norient playlists for quite a while now. On our recent South African tour we finally met some of the producers of this deep and darkelectronic music in
DRUNKEN IN THE STREETS OF BRUSSELS Drunken in the Streets of Brussels. Stromae’s viral music video Formidable» reached almost 120 million YouTube hits in two years. We talked to Belgian music video director Jérôme Guiot about the process of creating buzz and how marketing strategies have become an integral part of producing contemporary music. BLACK METAL IN GEORGIA Black Metal in Georgia. While Heavy Metal has been around already in Soviet-times, it was not until 1995 that the first Black Metal concert in Georgia took place. In the interview the Black Metal veteran Vaso Doiashvili who plays in the Band Ruins of Faith opens up and tells about his experiences: how the orthodox church, the Georgian mentality TOPICS | NORIENT.COM Dance. From breakdance in Baghdad, the rebel dance pantsula in South Africa to the role of intoxications in club music: Dance can be a form a self-expression or self-loosing. Depression. Desire. Desires are produced personally and impersonally: About music as desiring machine and the elasticity ofBOOKS | NORIENT.COM
Best known for conceiving music and sound as seismographs of our time, Norient Books attempts to melt these seismographs into nuanced stories of the now and tomorrow. We publish unconventional releases between art, journalism, and academia that reflect upon but also with its phenomena, covering a wide range of perspectives beyond people, continents, and disciplines.BECOME A MEMBER
Norient offers new stories and thoughts of our fast-changing world. Become a member, and get insights into possibilities, challenges, dreams and visions of today, through in-depth articles, podcasts, films, online and offline events, co-created by artists, scholars and journalists from across the globe. With your membership you support our ride and vision: the creation of a sustainable onlineUNDERGROUND
As a basic member, you can dig deep in the «underground», explore all curated collections (specials), and receive tools like topics (a well-curated index) for better navigation. As a researcher, you get access to the Norient Researcher’s Space that offers a growing number of interviews, academic publications, and raw research footage.You
INDUSTRIES | NORIENT.COM industries. Norient is a community of practice and knowledge of scholars, journalists, filmmakers, video arts, podcast producers, speakers, moderators, mentors, and other creatives from currently 50+ countries around the world. We offer new perspectives, widen horizons and open dialogues around contemporary sounds, media cultures, andpeople.
PUBLISHING WITH NORIENT We welcome unconventional and interesting proposals in subject areas between art, journalism, and academia with a focus on music, sound,and noise.
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Aziz Tony is a musician and rapper from Niger. His lyrics, in French and Hausa, are inspired by traditional and contemporary culture from the Sahel region. After several tours in Niger and West Africa, Aziz Tony signed with the U.S. label Sahel Sounds of Portland. COLLABORATIONS INSTEAD OF HIERARCHIES Yalda Zamani is a conductor, researcher, and performer based in Germany, interested in transdisciplinary approaches in contemporary music performance, computational creativity, live coding, and the application of machine learning models in combination with motion-sensing technologies. Recently, she was granted a two-year doctoral research fellowship from the city of Hamburg and theLMASCARENHAS
Laura Mascarenhas is a multimedia Visual Artist and Art Director based in Berlin. Through her work, Laura captures atmospheres, moods and ideas to unveil and explore worlds that be mysterious and unknown. Born and raised in São Paulo, Brazil, and holding a Master of Arts from Hochschule Anhalt / Bauhaus Dessau, Laura has participated in art fairs and exhibitions around the world.THE NOW IN SOUND
Norient is a platform for the sound of the world: for contemporary music, quality journalism, cutting-edge research, and multimediaprojects.
ABOUT | NORIENT.COM
The Norient Space «The Now in Sound» tells new stories about the world through audio-visual exhibitions, academic and journalistic articles, podcasts, photography, video, film, experimental formats, curated collections, specials and the Norient Sound Series.It is an online magazine for the future, a meta platform to support other thinkers, artists, journals, and media, and a researcher’sSHOP | NORIENT.COM
A selection of films from the 2021 edition of our Norient Film Festival NFF is available for streaming on demand throughout all of 2021. Films from Argentina, Germany, Ghana, India, Indonesia, Iran, Kurdistan, South Africa, and The Netherlands. TIMEZONES | NORIENT.COM The Timezones podcast series plunges into the world of artists and their practices, asking: what does living and working in culture and the arts involve in different countries, cities, and contexts today? The artists’ thoughts on their moods, their social, political, and intellectual realities and their philosophies (of life) have been worked up into experimental audio collages. SBHAGWATI | NORIENT.COM Sandeep Bhagwati is an multiple award-winning composer, theatre director and media artist. He studied at Mozarteum Salzburg (Austria), Institut de Coordination Acoustique/Musique IRCAM Paris (France) and graduated with a Diplom in Composition from Hochschule für Musik und Theater München (Germany) His compositions and comprovisations in all genres (including 6 operas) have been performed by KICKS AND STRINGS FROM DURBAN Thomas Burkhalter is an ethnomusicologist (PhD), interdisciplinary artist, and music journalist from Bern (Switzerland). He is the founder and director of Norient, the Norient Space (Norient.com), and the Norient Film Festival (NFF). He co-directed documentary films (e.g. “Contradict”, Berner Filmpreis 2020 + Al-Jazeera Witness) and AV/theatre/dance performances, is the author and coMUSIC AND PLACE
The Scandinavian code of conduct «jantelagen» encourages modesty, conformity and goodness. Swedish feminist and anti-racist punk rapper Silvana Imam celebrates the exact opposite: pride, individuality, and diversity, as shown in the multi-faceted documentary Silvana by Mika Gustafson, Olivia Kastebring, und Christina Tsiobanelis. «Do not think that you are special or better than us!» VIDEO TRACES: FROM ITALY This playlist is an audiovisual journey through the last 45 years of Italian music. Far from being a systematic overview of Italian heritage, this selection aims to outline a heterogeneous, if not divergent, landscape of sounds and music videos. DRUNKEN IN THE STREETS OF BRUSSELS Charity Marsh holds the Canada research chair in interactive media and popular music and is an associate professor in the faculty of media, art, and performance at the University of Regina in Saskatchewan, Canada. Marsh has published extensively in the areas of hip hop cultures in Canada, women in popular music, gender and technology, queer musicking, interactive media and performance, BLACK METAL IN GEORGIA While Heavy Metal has been around already in Soviet-times, it was not until 1995 that the first Black Metal concert in Georgia took place. In the interview the Black Metal veteran Vaso Doiashvili who plays in the Band Ruins of Faith opens up and tells about his experiences: how the orthodox church, the Georgian mentality and the missing infrastructure make life difficult for the growing scene.THE NOW IN SOUND
Norient is a platform for the sound of the world: for contemporary music, quality journalism, cutting-edge research, and multimediaprojects.
ABOUT | NORIENT.COM
The Norient Space «The Now in Sound» tells new stories about the world through audio-visual exhibitions, academic and journalistic articles, podcasts, photography, video, film, experimental formats, curated collections, specials and the Norient Sound Series.It is an online magazine for the future, a meta platform to support other thinkers, artists, journals, and media, and a researcher’sSHOP | NORIENT.COM
A selection of films from the 2021 edition of our Norient Film Festival NFF is available for streaming on demand throughout all of 2021. Films from Argentina, Germany, Ghana, India, Indonesia, Iran, Kurdistan, South Africa, and The Netherlands. TIMEZONES | NORIENT.COM The Timezones podcast series plunges into the world of artists and their practices, asking: what does living and working in culture and the arts involve in different countries, cities, and contexts today? The artists’ thoughts on their moods, their social, political, and intellectual realities and their philosophies (of life) have been worked up into experimental audio collages. SBHAGWATI | NORIENT.COM Sandeep Bhagwati is an multiple award-winning composer, theatre director and media artist. He studied at Mozarteum Salzburg (Austria), Institut de Coordination Acoustique/Musique IRCAM Paris (France) and graduated with a Diplom in Composition from Hochschule für Musik und Theater München (Germany) His compositions and comprovisations in all genres (including 6 operas) have been performed by KICKS AND STRINGS FROM DURBAN Thomas Burkhalter is an ethnomusicologist (PhD), interdisciplinary artist, and music journalist from Bern (Switzerland). He is the founder and director of Norient, the Norient Space (Norient.com), and the Norient Film Festival (NFF). He co-directed documentary films (e.g. “Contradict”, Berner Filmpreis 2020 + Al-Jazeera Witness) and AV/theatre/dance performances, is the author and coMUSIC AND PLACE
The Scandinavian code of conduct «jantelagen» encourages modesty, conformity and goodness. Swedish feminist and anti-racist punk rapper Silvana Imam celebrates the exact opposite: pride, individuality, and diversity, as shown in the multi-faceted documentary Silvana by Mika Gustafson, Olivia Kastebring, und Christina Tsiobanelis. «Do not think that you are special or better than us!» VIDEO TRACES: FROM ITALY This playlist is an audiovisual journey through the last 45 years of Italian music. Far from being a systematic overview of Italian heritage, this selection aims to outline a heterogeneous, if not divergent, landscape of sounds and music videos. DRUNKEN IN THE STREETS OF BRUSSELS Charity Marsh holds the Canada research chair in interactive media and popular music and is an associate professor in the faculty of media, art, and performance at the University of Regina in Saskatchewan, Canada. Marsh has published extensively in the areas of hip hop cultures in Canada, women in popular music, gender and technology, queer musicking, interactive media and performance, BLACK METAL IN GEORGIA While Heavy Metal has been around already in Soviet-times, it was not until 1995 that the first Black Metal concert in Georgia took place. In the interview the Black Metal veteran Vaso Doiashvili who plays in the Band Ruins of Faith opens up and tells about his experiences: how the orthodox church, the Georgian mentality and the missing infrastructure make life difficult for the growing scene.BOOKS | NORIENT.COM
Best known for conceiving music and sound as seismographs of our time, Norient Books attempts to melt these seismographs into nuanced stories of the now and tomorrow. We publish unconventional releases between art, journalism, and academia that reflect upon but also with its phenomena, covering a wide range of perspectives beyond people, continents, and disciplines. TOPICS | NORIENT.COM Appropriation. About the ups and downs of cross-cultural creativity: Korean reggae, vaporwave, and the worldwide Hindu Holi festival.BECOME A MEMBER
Norient offers new stories and thoughts of our fast-changing world. Become a member, and get insights into possibilities, challenges, dreams and visions of today, through in-depth articles, podcasts, films, online and offline events, co-created by artists, scholars and journalists from across the globe. With your membership you support our ride and vision: the creation of a sustainable online INDUSTRIES | NORIENT.COM Norient is a community of practice and knowledge of scholars, journalists, filmmakers, video arts, podcast producers, speakers, moderators, mentors, and other creatives from currently 50+ countries around the world. We offer new perspectives, widen horizons and open dialogues around contemporary sounds, media cultures, and people. Looking for inspiring synergies or partnerships? PUBLISHING WITH NORIENT We welcome unconventional and interesting proposals in subject areas between art, journalism, and academia with a focus on music, sound,and noise.
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We need new voices, perspectives, and positions – from Africa, Asia, the Americas, Europe, Switzerland – from everywhere. CONTACT US | NORIENT.COM If you have questions, proposals, requests, critique and so on, please don’t hesitate to contact us. We are looking forward to hearing fromyou.
RELIGION | NORIENT.COM In Ghana, everyday life is widely ruled by the Christian religion. The artists portrayed in the film «Contradict» revolt against this religion’s tendency to dominate people’s histories – by writingtheir own.
LMASCARENHAS
Laura Mascarenhas is a multimedia Visual Artist and Art Director based in Berlin. Through her work, Laura captures atmospheres, moods and ideas to unveil and explore worlds that be mysterious and unknown. Born and raised in São Paulo, Brazil, and holding a Master of Arts from Hochschule Anhalt / Bauhaus Dessau, Laura has participated in art fairs and exhibitions around the world. SGROBLER | NORIENT.COM Sophie Grobler is a singer in Berlin. She grew up in Potsdam and was encouraged early on in voice training, on the concert guitar and on the piano. From 2006 she studied jazz singing in Weimar at the Franz Liszt College of Music with Jeff Cascaro and Michael Schiefel.THE NOW IN SOUND
Norient is a platform for the sound of the world: for contemporary music, quality journalism, cutting-edge research, and multimediaprojects.
ABOUT | NORIENT.COM
The Norient Space «The Now in Sound» tells new stories about the world through audio-visual exhibitions, academic and journalistic articles, podcasts, photography, video, film, experimental formats, curated collections, specials and the Norient Sound Series.It is an online magazine for the future, a meta platform to support other thinkers, artists, journals, and media, and a researcher’sSHOP | NORIENT.COM
A selection of films from the 2021 edition of our Norient Film Festival NFF is available for streaming on demand throughout all of 2021. Films from Argentina, Germany, Ghana, India, Indonesia, Iran, Kurdistan, South Africa, and The Netherlands. TIMEZONES | NORIENT.COM The Timezones podcast series plunges into the world of artists and their practices, asking: what does living and working in culture and the arts involve in different countries, cities, and contexts today? The artists’ thoughts on their moods, their social, political, and intellectual realities and their philosophies (of life) have been worked up into experimental audio collages. SBHAGWATI | NORIENT.COM Sandeep Bhagwati is an multiple award-winning composer, theatre director and media artist. He studied at Mozarteum Salzburg (Austria), Institut de Coordination Acoustique/Musique IRCAM Paris (France) and graduated with a Diplom in Composition from Hochschule für Musik und Theater München (Germany) His compositions and comprovisations in all genres (including 6 operas) have been performed by KICKS AND STRINGS FROM DURBAN Thomas Burkhalter is an ethnomusicologist (PhD), interdisciplinary artist, and music journalist from Bern (Switzerland). He is the founder and director of Norient, the Norient Space (Norient.com), and the Norient Film Festival (NFF). He co-directed documentary films (e.g. “Contradict”, Berner Filmpreis 2020 + Al-Jazeera Witness) and AV/theatre/dance performances, is the author and coMUSIC AND PLACE
The Scandinavian code of conduct «jantelagen» encourages modesty, conformity and goodness. Swedish feminist and anti-racist punk rapper Silvana Imam celebrates the exact opposite: pride, individuality, and diversity, as shown in the multi-faceted documentary Silvana by Mika Gustafson, Olivia Kastebring, und Christina Tsiobanelis. «Do not think that you are special or better than us!» VIDEO TRACES: FROM ITALY This playlist is an audiovisual journey through the last 45 years of Italian music. Far from being a systematic overview of Italian heritage, this selection aims to outline a heterogeneous, if not divergent, landscape of sounds and music videos. DRUNKEN IN THE STREETS OF BRUSSELS Charity Marsh holds the Canada research chair in interactive media and popular music and is an associate professor in the faculty of media, art, and performance at the University of Regina in Saskatchewan, Canada. Marsh has published extensively in the areas of hip hop cultures in Canada, women in popular music, gender and technology, queer musicking, interactive media and performance, BLACK METAL IN GEORGIA While Heavy Metal has been around already in Soviet-times, it was not until 1995 that the first Black Metal concert in Georgia took place. In the interview the Black Metal veteran Vaso Doiashvili who plays in the Band Ruins of Faith opens up and tells about his experiences: how the orthodox church, the Georgian mentality and the missing infrastructure make life difficult for the growing scene.THE NOW IN SOUND
Norient is a platform for the sound of the world: for contemporary music, quality journalism, cutting-edge research, and multimediaprojects.
ABOUT | NORIENT.COM
The Norient Space «The Now in Sound» tells new stories about the world through audio-visual exhibitions, academic and journalistic articles, podcasts, photography, video, film, experimental formats, curated collections, specials and the Norient Sound Series.It is an online magazine for the future, a meta platform to support other thinkers, artists, journals, and media, and a researcher’sSHOP | NORIENT.COM
A selection of films from the 2021 edition of our Norient Film Festival NFF is available for streaming on demand throughout all of 2021. Films from Argentina, Germany, Ghana, India, Indonesia, Iran, Kurdistan, South Africa, and The Netherlands. TIMEZONES | NORIENT.COM The Timezones podcast series plunges into the world of artists and their practices, asking: what does living and working in culture and the arts involve in different countries, cities, and contexts today? The artists’ thoughts on their moods, their social, political, and intellectual realities and their philosophies (of life) have been worked up into experimental audio collages. SBHAGWATI | NORIENT.COM Sandeep Bhagwati is an multiple award-winning composer, theatre director and media artist. He studied at Mozarteum Salzburg (Austria), Institut de Coordination Acoustique/Musique IRCAM Paris (France) and graduated with a Diplom in Composition from Hochschule für Musik und Theater München (Germany) His compositions and comprovisations in all genres (including 6 operas) have been performed by KICKS AND STRINGS FROM DURBAN Thomas Burkhalter is an ethnomusicologist (PhD), interdisciplinary artist, and music journalist from Bern (Switzerland). He is the founder and director of Norient, the Norient Space (Norient.com), and the Norient Film Festival (NFF). He co-directed documentary films (e.g. “Contradict”, Berner Filmpreis 2020 + Al-Jazeera Witness) and AV/theatre/dance performances, is the author and coMUSIC AND PLACE
The Scandinavian code of conduct «jantelagen» encourages modesty, conformity and goodness. Swedish feminist and anti-racist punk rapper Silvana Imam celebrates the exact opposite: pride, individuality, and diversity, as shown in the multi-faceted documentary Silvana by Mika Gustafson, Olivia Kastebring, und Christina Tsiobanelis. «Do not think that you are special or better than us!» VIDEO TRACES: FROM ITALY This playlist is an audiovisual journey through the last 45 years of Italian music. Far from being a systematic overview of Italian heritage, this selection aims to outline a heterogeneous, if not divergent, landscape of sounds and music videos. DRUNKEN IN THE STREETS OF BRUSSELS Charity Marsh holds the Canada research chair in interactive media and popular music and is an associate professor in the faculty of media, art, and performance at the University of Regina in Saskatchewan, Canada. Marsh has published extensively in the areas of hip hop cultures in Canada, women in popular music, gender and technology, queer musicking, interactive media and performance, BLACK METAL IN GEORGIA While Heavy Metal has been around already in Soviet-times, it was not until 1995 that the first Black Metal concert in Georgia took place. In the interview the Black Metal veteran Vaso Doiashvili who plays in the Band Ruins of Faith opens up and tells about his experiences: how the orthodox church, the Georgian mentality and the missing infrastructure make life difficult for the growing scene.BOOKS | NORIENT.COM
Best known for conceiving music and sound as seismographs of our time, Norient Books attempts to melt these seismographs into nuanced stories of the now and tomorrow. We publish unconventional releases between art, journalism, and academia that reflect upon but also with its phenomena, covering a wide range of perspectives beyond people, continents, and disciplines. TOPICS | NORIENT.COM Appropriation. About the ups and downs of cross-cultural creativity: Korean reggae, vaporwave, and the worldwide Hindu Holi festival.BECOME A MEMBER
Norient offers new stories and thoughts of our fast-changing world. Become a member, and get insights into possibilities, challenges, dreams and visions of today, through in-depth articles, podcasts, films, online and offline events, co-created by artists, scholars and journalists from across the globe. With your membership you support our ride and vision: the creation of a sustainable online INDUSTRIES | NORIENT.COM Norient is a community of practice and knowledge of scholars, journalists, filmmakers, video arts, podcast producers, speakers, moderators, mentors, and other creatives from currently 50+ countries around the world. We offer new perspectives, widen horizons and open dialogues around contemporary sounds, media cultures, and people. Looking for inspiring synergies or partnerships? PUBLISHING WITH NORIENT We welcome unconventional and interesting proposals in subject areas between art, journalism, and academia with a focus on music, sound,and noise.
UNDERGROUND
We need new voices, perspectives, and positions – from Africa, Asia, the Americas, Europe, Switzerland – from everywhere. CONTACT US | NORIENT.COM If you have questions, proposals, requests, critique and so on, please don’t hesitate to contact us. We are looking forward to hearing fromyou.
RELIGION | NORIENT.COM In Ghana, everyday life is widely ruled by the Christian religion. The artists portrayed in the film «Contradict» revolt against this religion’s tendency to dominate people’s histories – by writingtheir own.
LMASCARENHAS
Laura Mascarenhas is a multimedia Visual Artist and Art Director based in Berlin. Through her work, Laura captures atmospheres, moods and ideas to unveil and explore worlds that be mysterious and unknown. Born and raised in São Paulo, Brazil, and holding a Master of Arts from Hochschule Anhalt / Bauhaus Dessau, Laura has participated in art fairs and exhibitions around the world. SGROBLER | NORIENT.COM Sophie Grobler is a singer in Berlin. She grew up in Potsdam and was encouraged early on in voice training, on the concert guitar and on the piano. From 2006 she studied jazz singing in Weimar at the Franz Liszt College of Music with Jeff Cascaro and Michael Schiefel. Skip to main contentnorient
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Activism
Why New Yorks’ underground doesn’t give a fuck about Trump or why satirical rap in Pakistan can be life threatening.*
Affect
About the micropolitical qualities of sound as a non-conscious experience of intensity.*
Alienation
How do musicians fill or widen the gap of feeling at home in a world that is radically unhomely?*
Appropriation
About the ups and downs of cross-cultural creativity: Korean reggae, vaporwave, and the worldwide Hindu Holi festival.*
Belonging
A form of attachement beyond categories like home or nation but to people, feelings, or sounds across the globe.*
Body
From hypersexualised dance culture in baile funk to the empowering body culture in queer lifestyles.*
Capitalism
How does this ideology, but also its sheer physical expressions such as labor affect cultural production? From hip hop’s «bling» culture to critical evaluations of cultural funding.*
Censorship
From political music in the GDR, the trouble of punk musicians in China and the dangerous life of kurdish folk singers in Turkey.*
City
Why do people in Karachi yell rather than talk and how does the sound of Dakar or Luanda affect music production?*
Class
From classism in techno clubs to clashing ideals of masculinity in Brazilian «bate bola».*
Colonialism
From Beyoncés colonial stagings in mainstream pop to the ethical problems of Western people «documenting» non-Western cultures.*
Community
From Bangladeshi electronica to global «black midi» micro scenes.*
Counter-Culture
From Muslim taqwacore to how the rave scene in Athens counters thefinancial crisis.
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Cultural Diplomacy
Can a small chinese radio show about Uyghur music stand against the censorshop of the Communist Party of China? Are art residenciesuseful?
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Dance
From breakdance in Baghdad, the rebel dance pantsula in South Africa to the role of intoxications in club music: Dance can be a form a self-expression or self-loosing.*
Diaspora
Does the global appropriation of kuduro exploit or reshape the identity of Angolans? How are «local» music genres like guayla sustained outside of Eritrea?*
Digitization
Digitization means empowerment: for niche musicians, queer artists and native aliens that connect online to create safe spaces.*
DIY
Can a bedroom producer change the world? How do artists operate in undersupplied conditions?*
Encounter
What happens when a Muscovite electronic producer meets Circassian folk musicians? What rules are needed for intercultural cooperation between individuals?*
Ethics
What happens when U.S.-blogger collects african music and offers it for free? What is the difference between «textually signaled» and textually unsignaled»?*
Exotica
From Self-Orientalism in Arab music to the sheer exploitation of Brazilian funk music by acclaimed artists: how exotica examine aesthetics playing with the other and cultural misunderstandings.*
Gender Roles
Why is a female Black Brazilian MC from a favela frightening the middle class? Is the reggaeton dance «perreo» misogynist or a symbol of female empowerment?*
Loneliness
Loneliness can feel like isolation, but also as a positive solitude by keeping distance from the worlds’ chaos.*
Migration
What happens, when artists move from one to another country? For example, when an Arab artist replaces the big tractors in her the village with big jeeps of the West.*
Money
Musicians need to pay rent and taxes. But their relationship to money is highly ambigious.*
Music Business
About fees, selling records, and public funding: How musicians strive for a living in the digital era.*
Music Production
Why does a Kenyan producer of the instrumental style EDM add vocals to his tracks? This topic is about HOW things are done, not WHAT.*
Music Video
Watch how cutting-edge music from Brazil to Singapore is representedin moving images.
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Nature
From instruments made of plastic waste of the ocean to questions about a futurist naturalism which embraces technology for aestheticemancipation.
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New Geographies
Why Asia is not a continent and how the aesthetics of the NON Worldwide collective create new utopian notions of multi-centredorigins.
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Nostalgia
From the music format «78 rpm», the melancholic echoes of a dubbed out rave night in London, and parodic mockings of «perfect house wifes» by female Nigerian pop musicians.*
Othering
Does one really need the other in order to understand oneself?*
Parody
From post-digital pop mocking the music history to Romanian folk music turning into a meme culture.*
Perception
What is «treble culture»? How does what one hears affect what onesees?
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Place
Place remains important. Either for traditional minorities such as the Chinese Lisu or hyper-connected techno producers.*
Power
How did the internet change the power dynamic in global music? How does Egyptian hip hop attempt to articulate truth to power?*
Protest
About Tunisian rappers risking their life to criticize politics and musicians affirming 21st century misery in order to push it into itsdissolution.
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Queer
Queer is a verb, not a noun. Thinking & acting queerly is to think across boundaries, beyond what is deemed to be normal.*
Race
How artistis deal with this non-natural but political category as a result of its ideological dominance.*
Remix
How artists deal with the practice that some call «time-travel» and others «audiotopia».*
Sampling
Sampling is political: about the use of chicken clucks or bomb soundsin current music.
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Sound
Does a crematorium really have worst sounds in the world? Is there a sound free of any symbolic meaning?*
Soundscape
How do acoustic environments affect human life? In which way can a city entail sounds of repression?*
Technology
How does the artits’ relationship to the gear affect music? How to make the climate change audible?*
Utopia
From afrofuturist parallel worlds to decoding strategies of emancipatory sounds: Examinations of music striving for a life worthliving.
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Voice
From the political implications of human voice to its potential ofun-making sense.
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War
How does Syrian death metal sound in the midst of the civil war? Where is the border between political aesthetization and inappropriate exploitation of death?*
Youth
From Korean visual kei to Brazilian rasterinha, or the dangers of suddenly rising to fame at a young age.more topics
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10TH NORIENT FILM FESTIVAL 2021 13.01.2021 – 20.02.2021Bern, Lausanne (CH)
The 10th edition of the Norient Film Festival NFF will take place in January 2021 in Bern, and in February 2021 in Lausanne, Switzerland. Many films available for streaming online. Program online now.*
DISORIENT – WELCOME TO THE HALL OF MIRRORS 09.07.2020 – 12.07.2020Mannheim (DE)
The audiovisual online exhibition asks critical questions about the current state of Orientalism. Norient invited international curators and authors from the Norient community to research contemporary music videos from Turkey, Lebanon, Saudi-Arabia, Iran, Central Asia and South Asia, and to re-imagine, parody, or deconstruct Orientalism.*
ON MUSIC: LIFE AFTER MUSIC MAGAZINE – THE NORIENT WAY05.03.2020
Berlin (DE)
On March 5, 2020, Norient officially releases the new and forward-looking Norient Space «The Now In Sound»: a virtual, transdisciplinary gallery and community platform at the juncture of art, journalism, and cutting-edge research.*
CONTRADICT – IDEAS FOR A NEW WORLD 26.01.2020 – 20.02.2021 A documentary film by Peter Guyer and Thomas Burkhalter on Ghanaian musicians. Featuring M3NSA, Wanlov The kubolor, Adomaa, Worlasi, Akan, Mutombo Da Poet, and Petra Asantewa. Contradict Documentaryshop
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TIMEZONES – Episode 1: Nairobi€6.00
Nairobi’s next generation music producers and performing artists speak out – Episode 1 of the n«Timeszones» Podcast Series, co-initiated and co-produced by Norient and the Goethe-Institute.*
Book
Seismographic Sounds – Visions of a New World€31.00
The second Norient book «Seismographic Sounds – Visions of a New World» introduces you to a contemporary world of distinct music and music videos. Written by 250 scholars, journalists, bloggers and musicians from 50 countries.*
Digital, Vinyl
Sonic Traces: From the Arab World€16.00
Music, sounds and noises from the Arab World - The Norient Performance is out now! Collected and mixed by the Norient collective. Vinyl anddigital.
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