Curation
Norient - The Now In Sound
Norient is an audio-visual gallery and a community (of practice) for the sound of the world: for contemporary music, quality journalism, cutting-edge research, projects, and events like the Norient Festival. Norient conceives music, sound, and noise as seismographs of our time, facilitates space and place for thinkers and artists from currently fifty countries to tell new and different stories of the now and tomorrow. The goal is to support (sub)cultural diversity, broaden horizons, and open up dialogue across people, continents, and disciplines.
Thomas Burkhalter is the director of Norient. He founded the platform in 2002.
Info: https://norient.com/
Norient Festival
The Norient Festival explores the contemporary world through music and sound. Founded 2010 by Thomas Burkhalter (director of Norient, ethnomusicologist and AV-artist) and Michael Spahr (video artist, co-director of editions 1 to 4), the Norient Festival (former Norient Musikfilm Festival) from the beginning intended to present deep stories, research and thought from across the globe through captivating, experimental and at times challenging films, AV performances, concerts, DJ sets, video lectures, and other digital formats. After the 10th edition, festival director Thomas Burkhalter decided to hand over the curatorial direction and decision making to an international and multidisciplinary group of people that currently are the artistic directors and the new faces of the festival. Thomas Burkhalter is new the strategic director of the Norient Festival.
Info: Norient Festival
Further Curations
to be updated - check via Norient Curations for now.
Photo Diary (soon)