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  • Klang Moor Schopfe 2025
    Klang Moor Schopfe 2025 x Norient
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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! 

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    Norient x Rewire 2025
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    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.

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    Norient City Sounds: Jakarta – Release Event
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    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!
  • ultima festival oslo
    Norient x oslo contemporary music festival 2025
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    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.

  • Hyperplexia.
    Stefan Schultzes Hyperplexia live
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    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.
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    TIMEZONES Broadcasts and Events
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    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?
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    Norient x Ethnokino Film Festival 2024
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    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.
  • Unsafe+Sounds.
    Norient x Unsafe+Sounds Festival 2024
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    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.
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    Norient City Sounds: Bogotá – Release Event
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    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.
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    THE POLITICS OF CURATORSHIP @ jazzhane festival
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    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.
  • Norient x Rewire 2024.
    Norient x Rewire 2024
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    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.
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    Melodies In My Head
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    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?
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    FOREST CINEMA | WOMEN WARRIORS RECLAIM THE EARTH
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    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.
  • Terra Pulse
    TERRA PULSE
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    Colombo (LK)
    Norient with Coco Em & Ka(ra)mi on the decks at Colomboscope Festival, Sri Lanka.
  • 13. Norient Festival 2024 Square
    13. Norient Festival 2024
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    Bern (CH)
    The world through sound, film and video: The 13th Norient Festival addresses global challenges of our time. From January 10 to 14, 2024, we aim for an open dialogue about the future of this global community through nearly 20 interdisciplinary and internationally curated events.
  • Sonic Worlding #2 live
    Sonic Worlding #2
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    Berlin (DE)
    For the second edition of «Sonic Worlding», Norient editor Philipp Rhensius aka Alienationist invites the sonic experimentalist Nour Sokhon and electronic musician Justin to Arkaoda club Berlin.