What Are We Looking For?

At the moment we’re only accepting pitches for the curation of Norient Specials

• Norient Specials include an essay/video/film/sound collection based on a certain focus, research idea or thesis, a general reflection or critique that puts your chosen topic in the context a cultural, aesthetic, or political debate
• see. e.g. for example Sampling Politics Today (digital & pdf) or Sonic Traces From Italy (digital & book)
• published at the Norient Space and/or if possible, as a book, podcast, film etc.

A Norient Special should be about, inspired, or driven by:

• cutting-edge niche music from all over the world that speaks to what is possible and thinkable today – and what in some cases might influence future mainstream culture(s)
• sounds and noises that could be heard as seismographs of the now
• audiovisual art, films, or music videos
• the urge to speak to various readers: insiders as much as people who – through your take on the topic – will get drawn to a new phenomenon and who will be able to explore of our world

What Are We Not Looking For?

• music, concert, or festival reviews
• arbitrary opinion pieces that are not rooted in any kind of research
• interviews or profiles (unless you have some kind of exclusive)

How to Pitch Us

Please send abstracts (max. 100 words) including

• main idea of the Norient Special
• one or two hashtags precisely summarizing it
• a short budget overview
• min. 8 possible contributors (writers, artists, academics)
• send it to space (at) norient.com and we will get back to you and discuss how to proceed