Norient - Independent Network for Local and Global Soundscapes - focuses on experimental and urban music and music scenes all over the world. As an international platform norient aims to understand and show the many and often contradictory faces of cultural globalization and localization through articles about music, urbanism and politics, «authenticity», «modernity», «place» and «transnational spaces», written by musicians, scholars and music journalists from Asia, Africa, Latin America, Europe and the US. norient also produces and co-produces larger and smaller projects and events.At the moment norient is working on the scientific new media art performance «Sonic Traces From the Arab World».www.norient.com

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MOTHERLAND is a collective of people organising the clubnight and concert series called TAM TAM. We are presenting global urban sounds, with a strong focus on the african music scene. Since 2007.Get more Infos and DJ mixes @www.motherland.ch (more…)