Norient
Since 2002, the internationally active association Norient – network for local and global sounds and media culture – has been working interdisciplinary at the interfaces of music and society, journalism, academia and blog-culture. Norient is an innovative network for music and cultural promotion and exchange, treating topics of music, globalisation and digitalisation for a broad international audience. Core pieces are the Norient on-line magazine, the Norient Musikfilm Festival, and the Norient audio-visual Performances and DJ-Sets. More Info: www.norient.com.
By Norient on May 16, 2013
By Norient on 16 May 2013 in
BLOG
The two day festival “Lusotronics“ in Berlin celebrates the digital, urban music lifestyles of the four main countries of the Portugese speaking world: Angola, Brasil, Mozambique and Portugal. Not to be missed!
Posted in BLOG | Tagged Angola, baile funk, Batida, Belém, Bonde Do Rolê, Brazil, Cibelle, Dama Do Bling, Daniel Haaksman, DJ Comrade, DJ Marfox, Edu K, Funana, Gretchen, João Brasil, ku house, kuduro, Lisbon, Man Recordings, Maputo, Portugal, Rio de Janeiro, Tecno Brega, Throes & The Shine, Titica |
By Norient on May 13, 2013
By Norient on 13 May 2013 in
EVENTS
(*) Sonic Traces Radio Show – ab dem 3. September 2012, alle vier Wochen, Montags um 21 Uhr auf Radio Bern RaBe. Nächste Sendung 10. Juni 2013.
Posted in EVENTS | Tagged Avant-Garde, Black Metal, Elina Duni, Louis Schornoz, Neue Volksmusik, Noise, Pierre Hecker, Radio RaBe, Sissy Bounce, Sonic Traces, Sonic Traces: From Switzerland, Wildlife, World Music 2.0 |
By Norient on April 26, 2013
By Norient on 26 April 2013 in
VIDEO
Programming our annual Norient Music Film Festival we come along a great variety of documentary films – some you can watch for free online. We start sharing them in our new series «Digging Music Documentaries».
Posted in VIDEO | Tagged 100% Galsen, Alemu Aga, Brazil, Cheikh Sene, David New, Digging Music Documentaries, Documentary Film, Konrad Dantas, Ostentation Funk, Renato Barreiros, Senegal, The Harp of King David, Tuki, Tuki Bass, Venezuela, Vincent Moon |
By Norient on April 16, 2013
By Norient on 16 April 2013 in
AUDIO
Enjoy our latest Swiss-Fondue-Fufu-Mix, and dive into podcasts and articles around music and musicians from Switzerland – from musicians with or without a Swiss passport.
Posted in AUDIO | Tagged Boris Previsic, Dieter Ringli, Elina Duni, Imperial Tiger Orchestra, Joke Lanz, Jonas Kocher, Joy Frempong, Kara Sylla Ka, Kate Wax, La Gale, Meduoteran, Müslüm, National Fanfare of Kadebostany, Oy, Patricia Bosshard, Praed, Reverend Beat-Man, Ruedi Häusermann, Simon Berz, Sonic Traces, Sonic Traces: From Switzerland, Stini Arn, Superterz, Swiss Conspiracy, Swiss Music, Switzerland, The National Fanfare of Kadebostany, Tim & Puma Mimi, Wael Sami, Wildlife, Yang Jing |
By Norient on February 14, 2013
By Norient on 14 February 2013 in
EVENTS
The new trans-disciplinary, audio-visual performance of NORIENT mixes and manipulates music, sounds, noise and voices from Switzerland.
Posted in EVENTS | Tagged Alex Eugster, Alpentöne, Bauchamp, Bernd Schurer, Bittuner, Boris Previsic, Bruno Spoerri, Carlo Brunner, Cod.Act, Copy & Paste, Creaked Records, Cyril Schläpfer, Da Cruz, Daniel Häusler, Demolition Blues, Die Regierung, Digital Brainstorming, Duo Diatribes, Ear We Are, Eidgenössisches Jodlerfest, Elvira Glaser, Ensemble Phoenix, Ensemble Proton, Filewile, Flo Kaufmann, Fonoteca, Galoppierende Zuversicht, Geigenbauschule Brienz, Gustavo delux, Hans Feigenwinter, Haus der Volksmusik, Hinterzimmer Records, Hula Honeys, Imperial Tiger Orchestra, Iokoi, Jodeln, Joke Lanz, Jonas Kocher, Joy Frempong, Kadebostan, Kara Sylla Ka, Kate Wax, Klibi+Caroline, Kloster Disentis, Kutti MC, La Gale, Lleluja-Ha, Malcolm Braff, Manuel Stahlberger, Marc Stucki, Maria Gehrig, Markus Flückiger, Medienkunst, Meduoteran, Mosibuebä, Müslüm, Nadja Räss, National Fanfare of Kadebostany, Navel, Norbert Möslang, Ot Asoy, Paed Conca, Performance, Praed, Rainer Trübi, Reverend Beat-Man, Round Table Knights, Ruedi Häusermann, Rümlingen, Sebi Schmidig, Simon Berz, Sina, Sonic Traces, Sonic Traces: From Switzerland, Stiller Has, Stini Arn, Sudden Infant, Superterz, Swiss Music, Switzerland, Ted Robert, The National Fanfare of Kadebostany, Tim & Puma Mimi, Transdisziplinarität, Velma, Wael Sami, Yang Jing, Yodeling |
By Norient on January 14, 2013
By Norient on 14 January 2013 in
EVENTS
The 4th Norient Music-Film-Festival offers a queer-party with sissy-bounce-queen Big Freedia, stroboscopic thunderstorms and fanfares from the imaginary republic of Kadebostan, films on “Mardi-Gras-Indians”, black metal and Satanism in Norway, chalga-pop from Bulgaria and much more.
Posted in EVENTS | Tagged 4. Norient Musikfilm Festival, bee-flat, Big Freedia, Black Metal, Bounce, Bulgaria, Bury The Hatchet, Chalga, Children of the Bible, Club Bonsoir, Desi Slava, Documentary Film, Duboka Ilegala, Gay Culture, GayBern, Jeremy Cool Habasch, Kadebostan, Kadebostany, Kino der Reitschule Bern, Liquid Land, Metal, Miz Mockingbird, Motherland Soundsystem, National Fanfare of Kadebostany, Nebojsa Despotovic, Norient Musikfilm Festival, Queer, r3s3t, Satanism, Tam Tam Motherland, Trash, Until the Light Takes Us, Wildlife, Yassen Grigorov |
By Norient on January 9, 2013
By Norient on 9 January 2013 in
ACADEMIC
The first Norient book discusses contemporary movements and trends within transnational music scenes between Europe, Africa, Latin-America, Asia and the USA.
Posted in ACADEMIC, XFEATURED | Tagged 2012, Africa, Afrofunk, Ali Al Deek, Alois Lüönd, Alpentöne, Ana Tijoux, Anja Brunner, Aubrey Edwards, Barbara Mürdter, Beirut, Ben Harbert, Benedikt Sartorius, Bikutsi, Cameroon, Cumbia, daggering, dance, David Rovics, Die Antwoord, DJ Marcelle, Dossier World Music 2.0, Duboka Ilegala, Ethnomusicology, Field Notes, Filastine, Flurina Rothenberger, FOKN Bois, Free Pussy, Ghana, globalization, Grey Filastine, grime, Highlife, Hip Hop, Hiplife, Hyperpop, Indonesia, Irtijal Festival, Jamaica, Jay Retludge, Jeremy Wallach, Joahnnes Rühl, Julio Mendivil, Kadebostany, Karin Scheidegger, Kink Gong, Laurent Jeannau, London Riots 2011, Marcel Ötiker, Mario Venzago, Milena Krstic, Moses Iten, Mosibuebä, Musiqa Sha'biyya, National Fanfare of Kadebostany, Neo-Tropicália, Neue Volksmusik, New Orleans, New Wave Cumbia, New Wave Dabké, Norient012, Occupy, Outhere Records, Perreo, Philipp Rhensius, Popular Music Studies, Portia Seddon, Pussy Riot, record digging, Refpolk, Retromania, Sampling, Schweiz, Selina Novak, Senegal, Shayna Silverstein, Shonegrad O'Connor, Sissy Bounce, Sonic Traces: From Switzerland, Sookee, Stefan Franzen, Stubete am See, Syria, Tanya Traboulsy, Tanz dich frei, Taraf de Haïdouks, Theresa Beyer, Thomas Burkhalter, Thomas Haferlach, Togo, Traversion, Voodoohop, Vuvuzela, Wayne Marshall, Weltmusik, Weltmusik 2.0, Wildlife, Woody Guthrie, World Music 2.0 |
By Norient on October 8, 2012
By Norient and David-Emil Wickström on 8 October 2012 in
ACADEMIC
The Norient academic online journal offers peer-reviewed cross-cultural (case) studies of diverse aesthetical approaches to music and sound in our increasingly transnational and digitalized world.
Posted in ACADEMIC | Tagged norient academic online journal |
By Norient on September 21, 2012
By Norient on 21 September 2012 in
VIDEO
Via fast plane YouTube Norient travels criss cross the rapping african continent. We start with fast Mbira-accompagnied flows from Kinshasa and end with meta-discourses and rap-philosophies from Burkina Faso.
Posted in VIDEO | Tagged Africa, Afrobeat, Angola, Bawuta kin Bo tia K, Bravo Papa, Burkina Faso, Edy Sex, FOKN Bois, Ghana, HipHop, Janka Nabay & the Bubu Gang, Kenya, Kinshasa, Muthoni The Drummer Queen, Obscur Jaffar, Rap, Sierra Leone, Southafrica, The Busy Twist, Titica, Tokollo "Magesh", Tuesday Born |
By Norient on August 20, 2012
By Norient on 20 August 2012 in
VIDEO
(*) Galsen in slang means Senegalese. In the 25-minutes online-documentary «100% Galsen» the director and pioneer of senegalese hip-hop Keyti throws a new and vibrant light on the long-term and rich hip-hop-scene of the westafrican republic.
Posted in VIDEO | Tagged africanhiphop, Awadi, Cheikh Sene, Coco Jean, Daara J, Duggy Tee (PBS), Faculty of Hip Hop, Fatim, Fou Malade, Galsen, Gaston, HipHop, Keyti, Maxi Krezy, Optimiste Production, Safouane Pindra, Senegal, Xuman |
By Norient on August 17, 2012
By Norient on 17 August 2012 in
AUDIO
Bandish Projekt from Mumbai launches a Remix Competition. Download their files and send your remix! Or enjoy the uploaded tracks.
Posted in AUDIO | Tagged Asian, Asian Underground, Bandish Project, dubstep, Folktronic, India, London, Mumbai, Remix |
By Norient on August 13, 2012
By Norient on 13 August 2012 in
BLOG
Rap is perhaps the most immediate and powerful way to rebell and voice views on life. In part four of norient’s thematic dossiers we face different rap styles from the arab world over Switzerland to South Africa. Word up!
Posted in BLOG |
By Norient on August 1, 2012
By Norient on 1 August 2012 in
BLOG
(*) In part three of norient’s thematic dossiers we have a look on queer music movements, we listen to musicians who broach the issue of queerness and follow shrill drag-performances.
Posted in BLOG | Tagged Azelia Banks, Bitch, Dossier: Queer, Drag, Gender, Japan, New Orleans, Peaches, Plaided, Pussy Riot, Queer, Rap, Russia, Sao Paulo, Sissy Bounce, Sookee, Visual Kei |
By Norient on July 27, 2012
By Norient on 27 July 2012 in
BLOG
In the second selection of our thematic dossiers, norient sensitises your ears for different soundscapes. The individual acoustic environments of Lagos, the Amazonas-forest or Berlin are worth to be listened closely.
Posted in BLOG | Tagged Alan Dunn, Ben Parry, Dossier Soundscape, Emeka Ogboh, Experimental, Koli, Lagos, Libanon, Luigi Russolo, Mazen Kerbaj, Murray Schafer, Noise, Peter Cusack, radio aporee, Simon Berz, sound art, Soundscapes, Soundtrack to a catastrophic world, Steven Feld, Tarek Atoui, The Sound Ethnography Project |
By Norient on July 18, 2012
By Norient on 18 July 2012 in
BLOG
The next four wednesdays norient presents you a selection of our thematic dossiers. This week we have a look on old and new dance styles from all over the world: from fast Juke-steps from Chicago or copulative daggering to ghanian Azonto-moves.
Posted in BLOG | Tagged Accra, Alessandro Negrini, Angola, Azonto, Chicago, Colombia, Cumbia, daggering, Dossier dance, dubstep, Finland, Ghana, Girl Walk // All Day, HipHop, Hiplife, Ireland, Japan, juke, kuduro, Mexico, New York, Paradiso, Perreo, Shangaan Electro, Sonideros, Tango, USA, „At Night They Dance“ |
By Norient on July 16, 2012
By Norient on 16 July 2012 in
ACADEMIC
(*) “Down to the Underground: Popular Music and Society in Central Europe” is the title of the new book by EastBound. Norient wants to make you curious about reading it online for free and posts the abstracts and videos related to its contents.
Posted in ACADEMIC | Tagged abstracts, Botond Vitos, Central Europe, cultural studies, Czech Republic, Down to the Underground: Popular Music and Society in Central Europe, East Europe, EastBound, Ethnomusicology, Gábor Vályi, Gergő Havadi, Hungary, IASPM, Indie, Jazz, media studies, Psytrance, R. Emília Barna, Slovakia, sociology of music, subcultures, Tamás Tófalvy, Trever Hagen, Vinyl, Zuzana Kepplova |
By Norient on June 28, 2012
By Norient on 28 June 2012 in
AUDIO
Crashing waves, creaking glaciers, voices, breathing… the sound of catastrophy? Artists, musicians, scientists, composers, a radio astronomer and a field linguist take catastrophe as their point of departure and reveal the importance of sound perception to this imagining.
Posted in AUDIO | Tagged AD&THEFILMTAXI, Adam Nankervis, Andrea Polli, Andrea Polli Cape Royds, Ben Parry, Chris Watson, David Harrison, England, Enver Hoxha, Gina Czarnecki, Hilary Mullaney, is Antti Sakari Saario, Jocelyn Robert, Jonathan Swain, Kevin Logan, Mark Whitford, Martin Iddon, Noise Club, Patricia Walsh, Pépé Bradock, Peter Cusack, Peter McCaughey, Radio Art, Rodney Dickson, sound art, Soundscape, Tchernobyl, Thomas Ashcraft GWEN, UK, [zygote] |
By Norient on June 11, 2012
By Norient on 11 June 2012 in
VIDEO
Nancy Sinatras “These boots are made for walking” traveled around the world, was joyfully covered and translated into countless languages. A selection of czech, german, italian, french, dutch and spanish versions of the #1hit from 1966.
Posted in VIDEO | Tagged Billy Strange, Cover-Versions, Jan Derrer, Lee Hazlewood, Nancy Sinatra, Sixties, USA |
By Norient on May 30, 2012
By Thomas Burkhalter and Simon Grab on 30 May 2012 in
AUDIO
“The National Fanfare of Kadebostany” is one of various formations from the French-speaking part of Switzerland that currently experiment fresh and boldly with eastern European, Asian and African sounds and rhythms.
Posted in AUDIO | Tagged Belarus, Geneva, Kadebostan, National Fanfare of Kadebostany, Rational Diet, Sonic Traces: From Switzerland, Swiss Music, Switzerland, The National Fanfare of Kadebostany, Thementage2012 |
By Norient on May 18, 2012
By Thomas Burkhalter, Simon Grab, and Michael Spahr on 18 May 2012 in
AUDIO
(*) Die Genfer Musikerin Kate Wax ist in Europa und Japan bekannter als in der Schweiz. Mit «Dust Collision» ist ihr ein eigenständiges Konzeptalbum gelungen. Norient hat sie vor einem Konzert in Bern getroffen.
Posted in AUDIO | Tagged Aisha Devi Enz, Border Community, Electronic, Electronic Music, Geneva, James Holden, Kate Wax, Niels Wehrspann, Radio RaBe, Raphaël Rodriguez, Schönherwehrs, Sonic Traces: From Switzerland, Switzerland, Tibet, «Dust Collision» |
By Norient on April 30, 2012
By Norient on 30 April 2012 in
VIDEO
Friends from our Swiss taste-networks sent us their favourite videos and tracks from Switzerland. This «Cyber-Mix» features Swiss music with «an international sound». Enjoy!
Posted in VIDEO | Tagged Anna Aaron, Benedikt Sartorius, benfay, Bittuner, Bonaparte, Buvette, Celtic Frost, Chewy, Cheyenne Mackay Loosli, Christopher Mc Cray, Combine Harvester, Cyber-Mix, Damian Hohl, Deetron, Deliahs, Demolition Blues, Dimlite, Disco Doom, Evelinn Trouble, Fai Baba, Filewile, Fingerpoke, Glueams, Honey For Petzi, Honoré Feraille, Joy Frempong, Korsett, KRST01, Leech, Liricas Analas, Marius Käser, Nadja Stoller, Nadja Zela, Nasal Boys, Navel, Norbert Möslang, Oy, Peter Kraut, Round Table Knights, Roy and the Devil’s Motorcycle, Saalschutz, Samaël, Silent Majority, Sonic Traces, Sonic Traces: From Switzerland, Soult, Starter, Swiss Music, Switzerland, The Bianca Story, The Young Gods, Till Hillbrecht, Tim & Puma Mimi, Underschool Element, We Loyal, Wildlife, Yello |
By Norient on April 19, 2012
By Norient on 19 April 2012 in
ACADEMIC
Notions of Prospective Musics in Utopian Movies and Literature. – Call for Articles for norient academic journal Vol. II.
Posted in ACADEMIC | Tagged call for articles, norient academic online journal |
By Norient on March 21, 2012
By Norient on 21 March 2012 in
BLOG
On the album “Father Creeper” club-icon Spoek Mathambo from Jo’burg upgrades his unique electro-style with international features. The self-proclaimed “Prince of Townchip Tech” talks about his influences – in a quite serious presentation.
Posted in BLOG | Tagged afro-beat, Ana Rap, Dossier South Africa, Dossier World Music 2.0, Electro-rap, Father Creeper, Gnucci Banana, Johannesburg, kwaito, Malmö, Nthato Mokgata, Playdoe, post-apartheid, post-dubstep, South Africa, Soweto, Spoek Mathambo, Sweat.X, Sweden, World Music 2.0 |
By Norient on March 2, 2012
By Norient on 2 March 2012 in
BLOG
The song “Shock” by French-Chilean rapper Ana Tijoux became the soundtrack of the Chilean student movement. The title of her newly released album “la bala” lives up to its promise of powerfulness.
Posted in BLOG | Tagged 1977, Ana Tijoux, Anamaria Merino Tijoux, Chile, Hip Hop, La bala, Latin Hip-Hop, Rap, Santiago de Chile, Sebastian Pinera, Shock, student protests |
By Norient on February 17, 2012
By Norient on 17 February 2012 in
VIDEO
Girl Walk // All Day is a feature-lenght dance music video and tale of urban exploration that follows three dancers across New York City. The project wants to expand the boundaries of the single-track video to an epic musical film.
Posted in VIDEO | Tagged dance, dance film, dance music video, Girl Talk, Girl Walk, Gregg Gillis, New York, urban space, video |
