Norient

Norient researches new music from around the globe and mediates it multi-modally via various platforms. We discuss current issues critically, from different perspectives, close to musicians and their networks. Through the Norient Online Magazine, the Norient Musikfilm Festival, performances, books, documentary films, the «Seismographic Sounds - Visions of a New World» exhibition and radio programs we hope to orient and disorient readers, listeners and spectators. Find out about strong, fragile and challenging artistic positions in today's fast moving, globalized, digitized and urbanized world. Enjoy, comment, share, skip and come back! Norient was founded 2002 by ethnomusicologist, music journalist and cultural producer Thomas Burkhalter. The core team is based in Bern, Berlin and Milano. The network of contributors is spread around fifty countries.