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The Norient Space is an audio-visual gallery and a community for the sound of the world. For more than 20 years, Norient has offered new stories and insights into our fast-changing world. The Norient Space connects voices from over 50 countries as a platform for thinkers, artists, researchers, and journalists.

Contributors and curators of the Norient community.

Join the Noriental journey and vision and become a member of our community! You’ll be supporting in-depth media content from across the world, and engage in opening horizons and dialogue across people, continents, and disciplines.


membership plans

We offer fair membership plans, discounted for students and specifically tailored for institutions.

free

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institutions

open access
 explore all content in an intuitive way
 limited search functions
 limited access to digital publications

support the Norient community
 explore all content
streamlined homepage
search by topics
access all digital publications
 receive the membership newsletter
announce exclusive news in our community newsletter
enjoy discounts for the Norient shop

several member accounts
all benefits from the membership level

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  subscription period: 6 months
automatically recurring payments
Regular: € 59 | Students: € 29
 
  subscription period: 1 year
one-time payment
Regular: € 99 | Students: € 49
 
benefit and support: your membership is a reciprocal act within the Norient community

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membership benefits

✓ explore all content

Get insights into possibilities, challenges, dreams, and visions of today, through in-depth articles, podcasts, and films, co-created by artists, scholars, and journalists from across the globe.

Norient Compass


✓ streamlined homepage

The Norient membership unlocks a sleeker, magazine-inspired homepage, where you can easily access our latest posts at a glance.

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Norient Space Spotlight

✓ search by topics

Members can browse the website via a list of topics and filter all our content through our constantly updated, curated index. When you click on a topic, you can access its related posts that offer stories and commentary across different regions and times.

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Norient Topic Protest


✓ access all digital publications

You’ll get access to all our digital publications (Norient Online Specials). Through Norient City Sounds: Beirut, for example, you can travel to Beirut, Lebanon, a city that continues to witness an aggravating financial and economic crisis in the midst of prolonged political and social turmoil. Curated by Rayya Badran.

NCS Beirut: Members Only

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NCS Nairobi Membership

Sonic Traces: From Italy Members


✓ receive the membership newsletter

The Norient membership newsletter is published multiple times a year exclusively for members of the Norient Space. In this magazine-style overview, we present all our recent releases on norient.com in a concise format, allowing for quick, easy discovery.

Membership Newsletter 2023

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✓ announce exclusive news in our community newsletter

We’ll announce selected news, event announcements, and release notes submitted to us by subscribers in each Norient newsletter. This will be shared with our global community of 4000+ subscribers.

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✓ enjoy discounts for the Norient shop

Does a 20% discount for the latest Norient publications and merchandise sound good to you? Benefit from discounts on selected items from our Norient shop.

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We need new voices, perspectives, and positions – from Africa, Asia, the Americas, Europe, Switzerland – from everywhere.

 

Seismographic Sounds Milan

Visitors at the Norient Exhibition «Seismographic Sounds» at BASE Milan, November/December 2016

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Audio Statement Thomas Burkhalter

Audio statements by Norient founder Thomas Burkhalter and artist, researcher, and Norient curator Suvani Suri.


together, one step ahead


We conceive music, sound, and noise as seismographs of our time, and open dialogue about our contemporary world.

Snap by Sergio Salazar

Norient gives voice to upcoming artists and covers topics that are current, urgent, and fresh, which may conquer cultural markets tomorrow.

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Norient mentors future journalists, academics, and curators, and offers an international platform for their first steps into their future profession. We are currently creating a Researcher Space on the Norient Space page for young scholars to publish their work.

Students City University London

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Norient develops new formats of storytelling that lie between music, film, journalism, and academic research – from audiovisual collages and sonic poems. We think collectively with and through music and sound.

Sonic Worlding

We’re committed to our long-standing mission of internationalizing curatorial work. In doing so, we’re actively contributing to the decolonization of knowledge and cultural production.

12th Norient Festival 2023

Creative work deserves to be paid fairly like any other form of work. With your financial support, you can help Norient support its wide network of project partners and employees by ensuring their creative work receives its rightful reward and equitable compensation.

Snap Hongkong

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