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Norient is a platform for the sound of the world: For contemporary music, quality journalism, cutting-edge research, and events such as the Norient Festival.

https://norient.com Norient is an audio-visual gallery and a community (of practice) for the sound of the world: For contemporary music, quality journalism, cutting-edge research, projects and events like the Norient Film Festival (NFF). Norient conceives music, sound, and noise as seismographs of our time, facilitates space and place for thinkers and artists from currently fifty countries to tell

new and different stories of the now and tomorrow. The goal is to support (sub)cultural diversity, broaden horizons, and open up dialogue across people, continents, and disciplines. The Norient Space «The Now in Sound» tells new stories about the world through audio-visual exhibitions, academic and journalistic articles, podcasts, photography, video, film, experimental formats, curated collections, specials and the Norient Sound Series. It is an online magazine for the future, a meta platform to support other thinkers, artists, journals, and media, and a researcher’s space for ethnographic data and bachelor, master’s and PhD theses. Topics range from electronic music in South Africa, rap in Pakistan, punk in Bolivia, free improvisation in Lebanon, Neue Musik to field recordings from landscapes, villages and cities, to reflections of diverse topics like the universality of music, noise-cancelling headphones, exoticism, or post-colonialism. Norient Place includes the biannual Norient Film Festival NFF and its satellites, lectures, performances, or concerts, curated and co-curated with the community of practice. Norient worked with: e.g. ZKM Karlsruhe, Haus der Kulturen der Welt Berlin, CTM Festival Berlin, Schauspielhaus Zürich, Keleketla! Library Johannesburg, 100Copies Music Space Cairo, Rough Trade East London, Rewire Festival The Hague, Base Milano, H3K Basel, Wiener Festwochen, Zentrum Paul Klee Bern, Martin-Gropius-Bau Berlin, Frankfurter Buchmesse, Theaterspektakel Zürich, EPFL Lausanne, Bad Bonn Kilbi Düdingen, Castelgrande Bellinzona, Klang – Moor – Schopfe Gais. The Norient Shop offers publications and releases. And the planned Norient Lab experiments with new formats and practices on how to perform music and sound research in the future.

«In 2002, Norient was an attack on Orientalism and Exoticism. It was about opening up to contemporary music and expressions from the non-Western world. Now it is about creating a true community of thinkers and artists.»

Thomas Burkhalter, Founder and Director of Norient

Please enjoy our «overground» and «middleground» sections of the Norient Space for free, and become a member to explore curated collections, dig deep in the «underground», and join our ride and vision: The creation of a sustainable platform and strong media content from across the globe.

10/06/2026

▶️ 🎤LISTEN NOW: TIMEZONES SINGAPORE: ARCHEPILACIC DRIFT

What does it mean to live on an island and yet feel estranged from the sea?

Moving through Singapore and the Malay archipelago, this episode by Zachary Chan and Rosemainy Buang gathers voices, songs, and personal stories that are carried across the waters of Southeast Asia.

🌊⋆｡ﾟStream the podcast online🎧

ℹ️ 𝑻𝑰𝑴𝑬𝒁𝑶𝑵𝑬𝑺 is more are audio collages and asks: what does living and working in culture and the arts involve in different countries, cities, and contexts today?

🎙episode 24 by and
🎵 featuring Jan Mrázek Preciosa de Joya jee chan Suyatni Sayano, and Sim Hoei Kiam.

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03/06/2026

࿐ Why are artists increasingly drawn to uncertainty?

Through site-specific concerts of Shane Parish, Laura Masotto, Michela de Mattei and Palm Wine, and Kenichi Iwasa at Festival in the Italian Alps, our author Rebecca Favale explores a growing desire for performances shaped by nature, chance, and immersion.

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🎵 snap sound by
📸 photos by Sofia Lambrou, Dimitri D’Ippolito, Rachel Orcutt
💬 article copy edited by Tucker Wiedenkeller ()
🗓 published 06/2026

𝑵𝒆𝒙𝒕𝒐𝒏𝒆𝒔 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟔 𝑱𝒖𝒍𝒚 𝟏𝟔-𝟏𝟗
📍 Ossola Valley, Italy
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🎨 Visual identity by Rachele Daminelli
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28/05/2026

𝐖𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐀𝐠𝐚𝐢𝐧𝐬𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐀𝐫𝐜𝐡𝐢𝐯𝐞

From colonial newspaper to piano score: «A Symphony of Archives» by transforms historical traces into living sound.

In this conversation from the Ultima Festival in Oslo in 2025, curator Francesca Ceccherini (Zaira Oram) speaks with Ash Kilmartin (Radio WORM) about territory, memory, and the notion of «situated listening».

🔗 norient.com/francesca-ceccherini/writing-against-archive
with a live recording from 2022 w/ pianist .kordzaia

📒𝑫𝒖𝒔𝒕 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝑭𝒓𝒆𝒒𝒖𝒆𝒏𝒄𝒊𝒆𝒔

a digital publication by and
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💬 edited & curated by &

💻 essays, audio pieces and conversations by

Ahmed Essyad @leila.rufus

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💬 copy edited by Tash Siddiqui

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🗓 published 03/2026

26/05/2026

«We want to share a part of this voguing oasis that we have known together, to transmit the aesthetic, political, and sound richness being breathed into Bogotá's Ballrom culture.» Vera Fonseca & Diana Santos

Vera and Diana delve into Bogotá’s contradictions of inequality and resilience in diversity, they reveal how a local Ballroom is created adjacent to music genres like merengue and perreo.

This essay identifies shared meanings, discontinuities, and local innovations in the Ballroom scenes in New York and Bogotá.

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Vera Fonseca .bugambiliaa is a trans woman, visual artist, and sociologist from Pontificia Universidad Javeriana in Bogotá, Colombia.

Diana Santos is a sociologist with experience in researching the artistic and cultural practices of individuals with non-hegemonic sexual orientations and gender identities. She’s the founder of .
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𝑯𝒐𝒎𝒆 𝒊𝒔 𝑾𝒉𝒆𝒓𝒆 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝑯𝒆𝒂𝒓𝒕 𝑺𝒕𝒓𝒊𝒗𝒆𝒔
💬edited by .liechti
💻 featuring essays, poems, articles, artworks, photos and sound pieces by 85 contributors from 38 countries
📚 book and cover design by Maria Uthe and Arief Wibisono
📸 cover photo by
🎬communication by
🖊️copy editing by Tash Siddiqui and Meredith Slifkin
🗓 published 06/2025 at Norient Books
📦available in the Norient Shop, Bandcamp and BigCartel EUR 29.–

ℹ️This essay is part of the virtual exhibition Norient City Sounds: Bogotá curated and edited by Luisa Uribe . It was first published on the Norient Space on August 22, 2024.

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19/05/2026

«People in Porto were much more interested in doing their own stuff than actually trying to follow a specific trend and that created a very unique music output.» Gustavo Costa, Sonoscopia - Platform for Experimental Music

Gustavo Costa’s sonic vision is characterized by a constant openness to musical styles but with a common denominator: experimentation and the constant desire for stylistic renewal. Active in the underground scene since the early 1990s, and part of countless bands and formations since then, he maintained an interest and parallel engagement with the academic world.

In recent years, he has concentrated a large part of his activity in — the collective and association of which he has founded — where he dedicates himself to the sonic exploration through various formats of creation and collaboration.

The latest TIMEZONES podcast episode comes from Porto, Portugal, and opens up the question: How does the current social and political climate shape — and gets shaped by — the way we listen to the city?

𖣘 Listen to the podcast in the bio link 𖣘

𝑻𝑰𝑴𝑬𝒁𝑶𝑵𝑬𝑺 𝑷𝒐𝒓𝒕𝒐
𝑹𝒆𝒔𝒐𝒖𝒏𝒅𝒔: 𝑺𝒐𝒖𝒏𝒅, 𝑺𝒑𝒂𝒄𝒆, 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝑪𝒉𝒂𝒏𝒈𝒆
🎙Podcast episode 23 by
🎵 featuring Alexandre Soares , Gustavo Costa , Luca Massolin , Paula Lopes , and Pedro Melo Segurado

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🗓 published 04/2026
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12/05/2026

❤️‍🔥📗NORIENT RECOMMENDS: FURTHER LISTENING

On the occasion ’s 15th edition, and Rewire present «Further Listening: On Adventurous Music and Sound»

🌀 check our bio link. 🔗

Bringing together artists, researchers, writers, and organisers, the book explores infrastructures for adventurous music, evolving listening practices, exchanges across geographies and generations, and speculative approaches to sound. Among the myriad of voices is also a contribution by Norient editor Philipp Rhensius from the latest Norient Book «Home is Where the Heart Strives».

07/05/2026

«If you cannot distinguish between something AI generated and a real artist, it doesn't mean AI is good, it means your skills as a listener have degraded.» Luca Massolin 8mm Records

is “a mecca for record collectors,” as the New York Times once wrote. The independent label, record store, and distribution platform is based at .

In the new Norient TIMEZONES podcast episode, Luca Massolin from and Pedro Melo Segurado from talk about Fiasco as a community-driven space where neighbourhoods, artists, and shared connections coexist and grow.

👉🏽Full episode in the bio link🎙️

𝑻𝑰𝑴𝑬𝒁𝑶𝑵𝑬𝑺 𝑷𝒐𝒓𝒕𝒐
𝑹𝒆𝒔𝒐𝒖𝒏𝒅𝒔: 𝑺𝒐𝒖𝒏𝒅, 𝑺𝒑𝒂𝒄𝒆, 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝑪𝒉𝒂𝒏𝒈𝒆
🎙episode 23 by
🎵 featuring Alexandre Soares, Gustavo Costa , Luca Massolin , Paula Lopes , and Pedro Melo Segurado

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🗓 published 04/2026
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🎧Available on , applepodcast, and other streaming platforms.

03/05/2026

𝑰 𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒏𝒌 𝒐𝒇 𝒎𝒚𝒔𝒆𝒍𝒇 𝒍𝒊𝒔𝒕𝒆𝒏𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒕𝒐 𝒑𝒐𝒑 𝒔𝒐𝒏𝒈𝒔
𝒄𝒓𝒚𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒐𝒗𝒆𝒓 𝒂 𝒍𝒐𝒔𝒕 𝒍𝒐𝒗𝒆
𝒉𝒐𝒘 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒔𝒐𝒏𝒈𝒔 𝒘𝒆𝒓𝒆 𝒂𝒃𝒐𝒖𝒕 𝒎𝒆
𝒘𝒉𝒊𝒍𝒆 𝑰 𝒅𝒊𝒅𝒏’𝒕 𝒖𝒏𝒅𝒆𝒓𝒔𝒕𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒂 𝒔𝒊𝒏𝒈𝒍𝒆 𝒍𝒊𝒏𝒆

An exerpt of the poem Music is Language Without Signification by Tillmann Severin, who writes poetry and prose.

📒𝑯𝒐𝒎𝒆 𝒊𝒔 𝑾𝒉𝒆𝒓𝒆 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝑯𝒆𝒂𝒓𝒕 𝑺𝒕𝒓𝒊𝒗𝒆𝒔 🇴‌🇺‌🇹‌ 🇳‌🇴‌🇼‌
💬edited by .liechti
💻 featuring essays, poems, articles, artworks, photos and sound pieces by 85 contributors from 38 countries
📚 book and cover design by Maria Uthe and Arief Wibisono
📸 cover photo by
🎬communication by
🖊️copy editing by Tash Siddiqui and Meredith Slifkin
🗓 published 06/2025 at Norient Books
📦available in the Norient Shop, Bandcamp and BigCartel EUR 29.–

23/04/2026

𝐅𝐀𝐓𝚰𝐌𝐀 𝐀𝐍𝐃 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐃𝐔𝐒𝐓

In Leila Bencharnia’s performance 𝑭𝒂𝒕𝒆𝒎𝒂 𝑼 𝑻𝒓𝒂𝒃 (Fatima and the Dust), sound is not simply something we hear – it is something that is woven, touched, remembered, and transmitted. Read an essay about what happens when listening becomes a tactile and imaginative act.

🔗 norient.com/fatima-zahra-lakrissa/textile-intelligences

📒𝑫𝒖𝒔𝒕 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝑭𝒓𝒆𝒒𝒖𝒆𝒏𝒄𝒊𝒆𝒔

a digital publication by and
💻 written by
💬 edited by and
💬 edited & curated by &

💻 essays, audio pieces and conversations by

Ahmed Essyad @leila.rufus

() &
🎨 snap design by
💬 copy edited by Tash Siddiqui

🎬 outreach and trailer by
🔗content publishing
🤝collaboration partners: .worm
💸co-funded by and
🗓 published 03/2026

📸 Leila Bencharnia by Piotr Niepsuj

22/04/2026

▶️ 🎤 𝐍𝐄𝐖 𝐏𝐎𝐃𝐂𝐀𝐒𝐓 𝐄𝐏𝐈𝐒𝐎𝐃𝐄: 𝐏𝐎𝐑𝐓𝐎 𝐑𝐄𝐒𝐎𝐔𝐍𝐃𝐒: 𝐒𝐎𝐔𝐍𝐃, 𝐒𝐏𝐀𝐂𝐄, 𝐀𝐍𝐃 𝐂𝐇𝐀𝐍𝐆𝐄

This 𝑻𝑰𝑴𝑬𝒁𝑶𝑵𝑬𝑺 episode by Sandra Pereira aka Narsadia listens through the ears of sound artists, experimental musicians, and electroacoustic composers, collectives, and curators, as well as cultural spaces and communities that keep them going.

𖣘 𝑳𝒊𝒔𝒕𝒆𝒏 𝒐𝒏𝒍𝒊𝒏𝒆: 𝑷𝒐𝒓𝒕𝒐 𝑹𝒆𝒔𝒐𝒖𝒏𝒅𝒔: 𝑺𝒐𝒖𝒏𝒅, 𝑺𝒑𝒂𝒄𝒆, 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝑪𝒉𝒂𝒏𝒈𝒆 𖣘 Link in bio.

ℹ️ 𝑻𝑰𝑴𝑬𝒁𝑶𝑵𝑬𝑺 is more than a podcast: with these experimental audio collages we aim to create a new format of sonic storytelling. The podcast series asks: what does living and working in culture and the arts involve in different countries, cities, and contexts today?

🎙episode 23 by
🎵 featuring Alexandre Soares, Gustavo Costa , Luca Massolin , Paula Lopes , and Pedro Melo Segurado

✍ artistic editor and project manager:
📣 Outreach:
⁠🎚mastering:
🗣️ jingle voiceover: Nana
💫 jingle mix:
📹 trailer:
📸 photography by and Alexandra Côrte-Real
🎨 snap design:
🛠initiated and produced by

🗓 published 04/2026
🤝Support and purchase on for 6 EUR
🎧Available on , , and other streaming platforms.

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