Thomas Burkhalter is an ethnomusicologist, anthropologist, AV artist and writer from Bern. He founded and directs Norient and the Norient Festival, co-directed documentaries such as Contradict (Berner Filmpreis 2020) and wrote and edited books including Local Music Scenes and Globalization and The Arab Avant-Garde. At the jazzhane Festival 2024 he spoke on «The Politics of Curatorship».
With jazzhane
- 04.07.2024 jazzhane Festival 2024, Rote Fabrik Zurich
About
Thomas Burkhalter is an ethnomusicologist, anthro-pologist, AV-artist, and writer from Bern, Switzerland.
He is the founder and director of Norient (Norient.com) and the Norient Festival, has co-directed several documentaries (e.g., Contradict, Berner Filmpreis 2020) and AV/theatre performances, and is the author and co-editor of several books (e.g., Local Music Scenes and Globalization: Transnational Platforms in Beirut, Routledge, The Arab Avant-Garde: Musical Innovation in the Middle East, Wesleyan University Press).
Currently, he is working on his new music project Melodies In My Head, and on the podcast series South Asian Sound Stories with musicians from the UK, Bangladesh, India, Maldives, Sri Lanka, and Pakistan.
At the festival, Thomas will be joined by Rami as a panelist to discuss «The Politics of Curatorship» together with Bassma El Adisey.