Sandra Passaro

Sandra Passaro is the founder of Hyper Culture and Stars & Heroes as well as the co-creator of the Norient Space. She has a diverse career as a coach and mentor, researcher, author, and university lecturer. Sandra helped shape the careers of artists and producers such as Apparat, Peaches, and Gonzales. Stars and Heroes has worked together (collaborated) with Matthew Herbert, Monkey Town Records, Richie Hawtins Label Plus 8, Ghostly Rec., Detroit Underground, and many others. Since 2016, she has curated and executed projects and ventures in music, media, and art through audio-visual exhibitions internationally and in Berlin at HKW, Radialsystem, CTM, Volksbühne, and more. She is Co-Creator of the award-winning platform Norient–the now in Sound, which works transdisciplinarily at the intersection of music, society, quality journalism, and cutting edge research. Sandra Passaro is a researcher, author and co-founder of the International Association for the Studies of Popular Music’s German-speaking branch (IASPM D-A-CH). She has been a university lecturer and mentor since 2005.