The new Norient publication Dust & Frequencies brings together audio conversations, recordings of live concerts, and essays. They explore how sound becomes a form of knowledge, a carrier of memory, and an engine for imagining futures. Sound as a form of material intelligence — distributed across bodies, archives, textiles, dust, memory and machines. Curated and edited by Philipp Rhensius and Katía Truijen.
  • A spiral of memory, where surfaces carry hidden depths: Abalone Shell Exterior. (Photo: Bill Gracey/Flickr)
    Listening Is Not Neutral
    Essay by Katía Truijen, Philipp Rhensius
    Before archives fix meaning, frequencies move. An opening conversation for the new Norient publication on listening, sonic pluralism, and the politics of what is heard – and what remains unheard.
  • Outside the Dominant Cultural Narrative: Tanger Fish Market (photo: Rebecca Favale)
    Writing With the Archive
    Sound Piece by Francesca Ceccherini, Zaira Oram, Ash Kilmartin, Abdellah M. Hassak
    A Symphony of Archives 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 about territory, memory, and the notion of «situated listening».
  • Jdba Rohania (Credit: Leila Bencharnia)
    Weaving Memory into Sound
    Short Essay by Fatima-Zahra Lakrissa
    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.
  • Like in music, in fog, knowledge appears in layers, and not all of it is to see. (photo: Shubham Kataruka/Wikimedia Commons)
    In Defence of Treason
    Short Essay by TIm Rutherford-Johnson
    What does it mean to be unfaithful in music? Listening to a conversation with composer Ahmed Essyad, our author reflects on why breaking loyalties may be a necessary condition for musical truth.
  • Setup for a performance by Gilles Aubry and Younes Boundir at Le 18, Marrakesh, Morocco, March 2019 (photo: Gilles Aubry).
    Dimensions of Sonic Pluralism
    Introduction by Gilles Aubry
    In this introduction to his book «Sawt, Bodies, Species», Gilles Aubry situates his research project on the sonic dimensions of our environment, tracing alternate genealogies of sound, listening, and technology in North Africa.