Hyper Culture conceptualise, curate and execute transdisciplinary cultural productions in the fields of music, media and art. We work with an international network of cultural creatives at the intersection of the social and spatial environment. We focus on cross-disciplinary projects and programmes with a profound approach.

Norient opens up the world through music and sound. We conceive audio and noise as seismographs of our time and facilitate space and place for thinkers and artists to reflect on the now and tomorrow. Our goal is to challenge surface realities and the mainstream, fight algorithms and initiate dialogue across people and continents.

2016 Musikhochschule für Musik und Tanz Köln, Ringvorlesung „ Klingende Münze. Der Wert von Musik“, Vortrag: „Fair Trade Music? Wie unabhängig kann ein Künstler im Pop Musikmarkt bleiben? Vermarktungs-, Verkaufs- und -über(-)Lebensstrategien.“2011 ACADEMIC LECTURE – Filewile X-Ray @ASPM Conference:” Populäre Inszenierungen / Inszenierungen des Populären in der Musik”, Paderborn, DE2010 ACADEMIC LECTURE @IASPM Conference: “Experience, Engagement, Meaning”, Cardiff, UK2010 ACADEMIC LECTURE, @ASPM Conference: “Blackbox Pop: Analysen Populärer Musik”, Mannheim, DE2009 ACADEMIC LECTURE @IASPM Conference: “The Meaning of Digital and Real Space in transnational German Popular Music Industries”, Liverpool, UK

TEACHING ASSIGNMENTS@NYU/ Tisch School Of The Arts, Clive Davies Institute of Recorded Music @BIMM (British & Irish Institute for Modern Music)@University of Paderborn (Department for Popular Music and Media)@Hochschule für Musik und Tanz Köln@Humboldt University of Berlin (Department for Musicology) @Free University Berlin (Department for Communication Studies)@University of Applied Popular Music Mannheim@Musicpool BerlinCoaching, Seminars, Workshops @Worldtronics/Elektro-Fachmarkt @ Haus der Kulturen der Welt, @Musicpool Berlin, @Perspectives, @ a2n, @Berlin Music Week, @EBAM, @Word Conference, @Perspectives, @IASPM D-A-CH, @BerMuDa, @IHK, Instructor (CC) for audiovisual media businesses.since 2017 New York University/ Tisch School Of The Arts, Clive Davies Institute of Recorded Music, “Conversations in the Global Music Business: Cryptocurrency, Big Data and Surviving The Future”, Course Mentorship.since 2010 Paderborn University/ Department for Music/Popular Music and Media. (BA), Seminar „Pimp my Pop Music-Project“, Guest Professor (2010, 2014, 2017, 2018, 2019)since 2016 BIMM Institute (British and Irish Institute for Modern Music) Module Leader "Music Production Industries", acc. University of Sussex. + Module Leader "Artist Development“2016 New York University/ Tisch School Of The Arts, Clive Davies Institute of Recorded Music, "Developing Your Music Venture For the Global Marketplace", Course Instructor and Lead Coordinator2015-2017 University of Music & Dance Cologne (HfMT), „Music Business/Self-Marketing“, (MA), Lecturer...University Lecturer since 2004

Stars & Heroes support, consult and promote international artists, labels and performances. We strategise, curate and conceptualise festivals, discourse programs, music book-releases, documentaries and exhibitions to widen horizons. We believe in longterm relations: cross-disciplinary collectives and communities are the future. We feel our cultural responsibility. Quality, substance and independence count.