Thomas Burkhalter (*1973), an ethnomusicologist and cultural journalist from Bern (Switzerland), works in the field of cultural globalisation. He wrote reportages on the music and cultural scenes in cities like Beirut, Istanbul, Cairo, Duschanbe, Belgrade , Mumbai for Swiss and international media such as Neue Zürcher Zeitung, Schweizer Radio DRS 2, Zeitschrift für KulturAustausch (Institut fuer Auslandsbeziehungen Berlin), Der Bund, Tageszeitung TAZ, Zenith - (Hamburger "Orient"-Magazin), Blue Rhythm (World Music Magazin) and others. He produced the documentary film "Buy More Incense" (2002) about Indian and Pakistani musicians of second and third generation in the UK and worked as a project manager and consultant for institutions and organisations as British Council Schweiz, Swiss Music Export and Kulturhallen Dampfzentrale Bern.Currently he is working on his PHD "Significant Sounds - Musicians from Beirut between alternative concepts of lifestyle and local and global dependencies" in Lebanon. He is trying to gain more and more knowledge about musical and cultural production in a globalized world.
