Wie kontert die unabhängige Musikszene die lärmige Millionenstadt Jakarta? Inwiefern verschmelzen an einem Appenzeller Festival audiovisuelle Kunst und hügelige Moorlandschaft?
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–Gais (CH)Norient gestaltet zwei Programmpunkte des Biennalen Festivals für audiovisuelle Kunst Klang Moor Schopfe. Komm am 6. September im Festivalzentrum vorbei!
Norient is curating two program points at the Biennial Festival for Audiovisual Art Klang Moor Schopf 2025 on September 6. Join us at the festival center!
–Norient and Rewire collaborate again with a digital publication on sonic witnessing, presented in an assembly with artists and thinkers of the 2025 festival edition. Norient editor Philipp Rhensius presents the new Norient book Home Is Where the Heart Strives.
–Bern (CH)The 14. Norient Festival moves from the personal to the geopolitical – from Gaza to Delhi, from Swiss yodeling to West African drumming, from Sufi poetry to protest chants, from Indian classical music to bass-heavy club nights, to the silence of wild boars hiding.
–Berlin (DE)Yelllow Salon at the renowned art space Cafe Tiergarten Berlin invites writer, musician, poet, and editor Philipp Rhensius to present the book «Home Is Where the Heart Strives». He will then reflect on sonic fiction, belonging, and the realities and futures of global DIY cultures — situated between intimacy, resistance, and noise.
–Jakarta Selatan (ID)We’re celebrating the release of Norient City Sounds: Jakarta Whispers at Kios Ojo Keos on Saturday, 27 September 2025 starting at 7.30pm – and you are invited!
–Oslo (NO)Norient collaborates with ultima oslo contemporary music festival for the 2025 edition’s context program, titled There is more to it than Casablanca. Concerts, films, DJ sets, food, reading circles, and radio talks bring artists and audiences together to explore Moroccan music and sound – focusing on sonic pluralism, a listening practice that sees sound as shaped by place, memory and movement.
–Bern (CH)Wie hat sich der Klavierbau weiterentwickelt und welche pianistischen Gestaltungsmöglichkeiten eröffnen sich neu? Das explorative und kollaborative Performance-Projekt Hyperplexia kann man jetzt live erleben.
–The TIMEZONES podcast series plunges into the world of artists and their practices, asking: what does living and working in culture and the arts involve in different countries, cities, and contexts today?
–Bern (CH)We are excited to announce the screening of the film Contradict – Ideas for a New World by Thomas Burkhalter and Peter Guyer at the opening night of the 4th EthnoKino Film Festival.
–Vienna (AT)Norient director Thomas Burkhalter will hold an audiovisual lecture and discussion under the title «Challenges of World Building – The Norient Perspective» at Unsafe+Sounds festival for challenging sounds and discourse.
–Bogotá (CO)We are celebrating the release of the virtual exhibition Norient City Sounds. Bogotá with an event hosted by the Goethe Institut in Bogotá, Colombia.
–Zürich (CH)Jazzhane festival transforms the Rote fabrik, featuring new music from the Silk Road and beyond. Norient willl will be on a panel discussion with Palestinian filmmaker, writer, journalist, and cultural activist Rami Younis, moderataed by Bassma El Adisey.
–The Hague (NL)Norient and Rewire collaborate again for a digital publication, this year dedicated to the theme of environmental listening. Presented in an assembly, Norient invites festival-goers to discover the diverse sonicities of Delhi, Karachi, and Colombo at the festival for adventurous music in The Hague, Netherlands.
–Bern, St. Gallen (CH)Two world premieres of the new show by Thomas Burkhalter (AV-artist and founder/director of Norient) and Daniel Jakob (music producer / Dubokaj, Dejot). Concerts with two dancers, singers, film, and anthropology. How can I talk about the world?
–Colombo (LK)After the Norient Festival Emma Nzioka aka Coco Em and producer Ka(ra)mi will represent Norient at the Colomboscope Interdisciplinary Arts Festival in Colombo, Sri Lanka.
–Colombo (LK)Norient with Coco Em & Ka(ra)mi on the decks at Colomboscope Festival, Sri Lanka.