Music: Melodies In My Head (2025)
Local Music Scenes and Globalization. Transnational Platforms in Beirut. Book about alternative music in Lebanon. By Thomas Burkhalter
«Clash of Gods» is theatre, dance, DJ-set and audio-visual media collage. The performance by Thomas Burkhalter and Christophe Jaquet leads midst into the battle for cultural, political, moral interpretations and definitions of our world.

Podcast: Long Take: Life as an Artist (2024)

In zwölf kurzen Podcasts stellen Studierende der Universität Fribourg zwölf promovierte Ethnolog_innen und Sozialanthropolog_innen vor. Ein Seminar von Dr. Thomas Burkhalter
The Arab Avant-Garde - Music, Politics, Modernity. Edited by Thomas Burkhalter, Kay Dickinson and Benjamin J. Harbert.
The Norient exhibition Seismographic Sounds – Visions of a New World showed and discussed contemporary video clips, tracks and sound art from around the globe. Curated by Thomas Burkhalter, Theresa Beyer and Hannes Liechti
Norient Festival Bern - The former Norient Film Festival was founded 2010 by Thomas Burkhalter and Michael Spahr in Bern, Switzerland

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NAIROBI'S NEXT GENERATION MUSIC PRODUCERS AND PERFORMING ARTISTS SPEAK OUT. A podcast about alternative and underground music in Kenia by Thomas Burkhalter
The second Norient book «Seismographic Sounds – Visions of a New World» introduces you to a contemporary world of distinct music, sounds and music videos. Edited by Theresa Beyer, Thomas Burkhalter, and Hannes Liechti.
«Sonic Traces: From the Arab World» offers music, sounds and noises from the Arab World: Propaganda music by political groups and clans, psychedelic Arabic Rock from the late 1960s and 1970s, the noises of bombs and machine guns, ...

January 2025, Melodies In My Head album shoot with Daniel Jakob

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