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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The first NORIENT Musicfilm Festival (14.1. - 16.1.2010 @ Reitschule, Bern) presented documentary films about new muscial tendencies from urban Africa, Asia, Latinamerica and the Near East.AND: Concertnight with Radioclit feat. MC MoLaudi, Daladala Soundsystem feat. Martin Pecheur and DJ Mpula.Get more infos about the festival and the films on:www.norient.com

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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