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Thomas Burkhalter

Thomas Burkhalter (*1973) is the founder and editor-in-chief of norient. As an ethnomusicologist and cultural journalist from Bern (Switzerland) he analyses music making in an increasingly digitalized, urbanized transnational world. His dissertation «Creating Sense out of Chaos: New Sounds from Beirut« researched empirically experimental and popular music in Lebanon (University of Bern and Oldenburg, 2009). Burkhalter wrote reportages and produced radio features on music, culture and politics in Beirut, Istanbul, Cairo, Bamako, Duschanbe, Belgrade and other cities for Swiss and German newspapers, magazines and radio stations (New Zurich Newspaper, Swiss National Radio DRS2, Die Zeit, SWR2, …).

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