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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Surround sound performance with recorded material from an MRI scanner (Magnetic Resonance Imaging).

Premiere was at the Lausanne Underground Film & Music Festival 2009 (LUFF).
A project by Simon Grab and Patricia Bosshard.

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Invited by SO21 Kunstradio, a weekly experimental radioshow on Radio LoRa.Sunday June 7th 2009 @ Kunstraum Walcheturm Zurich.Watch Video Read more »

Invited by SO21 Kunstradio, a weekly experimental radioshow on Radio LoRa. Once a year they perform live on stage and OnAir. Sunday June 15th 2008 @ Kunstraum Walcheturm Zurich. Watch Video

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An audio-visual lecture on experimental and urban music from the Arab World, a performance, which combines anthropology and multimedia art to give new insights into contemporary Arab music and art.

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