upcoming

  • 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.

past

  • The 10th edition of the Norient Film Festival NFF will take place online on January 27–31 and February 19–21, 2021. With streaming on demand, online live events, commissioned video clips, and more. Program available now.
  • Bern (CH)
    In einer Kooperation mit dem Affspace, dem Offspace für Architektur, zeigen wir während dem ersten Wochenende des Norient Film Festivals NFF 2021 in der Berner Altstadt Snaps, Kurzfilme, Musik Videos und mehr im Loop.
  • Mannheim (DE)
    The audiovisual online exhibition asks critical questions about the current state of Orientalism. Norient invited international curators and authors from the Norient community to research contemporary music videos from Turkey, Lebanon, Saudi-Arabia, Iran, Central Asia and South Asia, and to re-imagine, parody, or deconstruct Orientalism.
  • Berlin (DE)
    On March 5, 2020, Norient officially releases the new and forward-looking Norient Space «The Now In Sound»: a virtual, transdisciplinary gallery and community platform at the juncture of art, journalism, and cutting-edge research.
  • This PhD project by Hannes Liechti investigates sampling strategies in (experimental) underground electronic pop music and aims to contribute to a greater «Ethnography of Sampling» in music which still has to be written.
  • Gais (CH)
    Klang Moor Schopfe: Das Audio-Festival macht zeitgenössische Klangkunst hör- und erlebbar. Die zweite Edition bringt vom 30. August bis 8. September 2019 situations- und ortsbezogene Installationen nationaler und internationaler Kunstschaffender, Soundtüftler und Tonkünstlerinnen nach Gais AR.
  • Cairo (EG)
    Residence of three Swiss musicians together with the Egyptian Mazaher ensemble in Cairo and Fayoum. Intensive musical exchange and rehearsal with final concert in the Egyptian Center for Culture and Arts – Makan in Cairo.
  • St. Gallen, Bern, Lausanne (CH)
    The Norient Musikfilm Festival is back. After a year off, the 9th edition took place between January 10 and 13, 2019, in Switzerland (Bern, St. Gallen, Lausanne).
  • Bern (CH)
    The 3rd biennial research conference by the German-speaking branch of the International Association for the Study of Popular Music was organized in cooperation with Norient with a focus on popular music and global relations.
  • Zürich (CH)
    In collaboration with the Rewire festival and Schauspielhaus Zürich Norient presents a new concert series with cutting-edge acts of today’s pop music on the theater stage. Vol. 1 with Jenny Hval and Ben Frost; Vol. 2 with Aïsha Devi and Tim Hecker.
  • Overview on selected Norient events in the past.
  • Berlin (DE)
    The ISM Hexadome is an immersive 360° audiovisual exhibition combining art and technology and features nine audiovisual performances and installations from international artists. Norient presents two of them.
  • Bern, Aarau, Bellinzona (CH), Karlsruhe, Berlin (DE), Milano (IT)
    The first Norient exhibition showed and discussed contemporary video clips, tracks and sound art from around the globe. It has been touring from August 2015 to February 2017 around Switzerland, Germany, and Italy.
  • Lausanne, St. Gallen, Bern (CH)
    For four days, the art and music space Reitschule in Bern turned into a center of the world: The 8th Norient Musikfilm Festival was an aesthetic journey through the politics of the body, mind and soul – a review in words, pictures and tweets.
  • Johannesburg, Durban, Cape Town (ZA)
    After London, Berlin, Cairo and Milano, we are excited to present our mixture of Live-Music and Music Discussions in South Africa. Join us in Johannesburg, Cape Town and Durban, and follow up with our travel blog.
  • Honolulu (US), Lomé (TG), Cairo (EG), Zürich (CH)
    The 1+1 recording project by Norient and Sound Development aims to produce and document great tracks from upcoming and stunning artists worldwide and showcase them to new audiences in Europe. The main focus of the project lies in urban music from Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Middle East.