At Rewire festival, Thomas Burkhalter from Norient – Network for Local and Global Sounds and Media Culture – will discussvarious remix strategies with artists Mikael Seifu and Yannis Kyriakides. The audio-visual panel offers insights into these artists’ work, and it presents and discusses media material from past and present.

Dr. Thomas Burkhalter is an ethnomusicologist, music journalist and cultural producer from Bern (Switzerland). He is the founder and editor-in-chief of Norient.com. He is working as a research associate and project leader at the Academy of Arts Berne and the University of Basel (Seminary of Cultural Studies and European Ethnology).