Norient Agency

Since 2002, Norient has built a worldwide community of scholars, thinkers, researchers, artists, and journalists that conceive music, sound, and noise as seismographs of our time. Through the Norient Agency (established in 2023), we connect you to our network and set up collaborations with you. For festivals, universities, schools, and cultural players, we offer:

Norient Panel

+ audiovisual lectures and panels

Invite Norient artists and thinkers for inspiring talks, lectures, performances, and panel discussions that reflect about our contemporary world through music and sound, in innovative, captivating audio-visual formats.

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+ curations of events

Expand your event with thought-provoking film screenings, podcasts, and cutting edge performances, curated or co-curated by Norient.

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+ workshops

Organize your workshop on music and sound cultures, international collaboration, or other topics close to Norient with someone from the Norient team and curators, or from the Norient network. Learn how to produce a podcast, reflect on how to curate events and content in international, multi-disciplinary settings, unleash your creative writing about and with music. Benefit from our long working experience.

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+ media partnerships

Reach more people and/or deepen your content through tailored media partnerships with Norient. We can research and produce content for you, and we help to increase the outreach of your organization, event, and project.


Norient Agency

The Norient Agency offers an annual Norient Place Program or can connect you with professionals from over 50 countries through NorientConnecter.

Norient Place Program

Thomas Burkhalter / Lecture / Panels / Workshops: Norient: 20 Years of Research leading to 13 curatorial Principles. How to do Research in our Contemporary World. An Audio-Visual Lecture Performance.

Hannes Liechti / Lecture / Teaching / Panels: Sampling: on various aspects of this ground-breaking method of musical production (topics such as History of Sampling, Sampling & Politics, Sampling in Experimental Electronica, Intentions & Motivations behind Sampling) // «World Music» // History of Popular Music.

Claudia Popovici / Curation: Curation of Film Screenings and Live Performances.

Philipp Rhensius / Lecture / Workshops: Sonic Worlding – How To Think With Music / The How Is Key - Thoughts on Curatorial Practices / Writing With & About Music Differently.

+++ Find Norient team members and curators to work with! +++


NorientConnecter

We find the right speakers, panelists, workshop leader for your event. Let us know what your event is about, and we connect you to the right collaborators from our worldwide network.

+++ Contact us with your idea +++


Keck Kiosk

We collaborated with: CTM Festival Berlin, ZKM Karlsruhe, Beirut Synthesizer Center, Kunsthalle Bern, Haus der Kulturen der Welt Berlin, The Mall Nairobi, Makan Cairo, ISM Hexadome Berlin, Base Milan, Rewire Festival Den Haag, Rough Trade London, Aga Khan Karachi, Schauspielhaus Zürich, Reitschule Bern, Haus für Elektronische Künste Basel, Donaueschinger Musiktage, Zentrum Paul Klee Bern, Palace St. Gallen, Le Bourg Lausanne, Forum Schlossplatz Aarau, Castelgrande Bellinzona, Kornhausforum Bern, among others.