ultima festival oslo

Norient x oslo contemporary music festival 2025

CET
Oslo (NO)

Norient collaborates with ultima oslo contemporary music festival for the 2025 edition’s context program, titled There is more to it than Casablanca. Concerts, films, DJ sets, food, reading circles, and radio talks bring artists and audiences together to explore Moroccan music and sound – focusing on sonic pluralism, a listening practice that sees sound as shaped by place, memory and movement. Norient editor Philipp Rhensius will introduce our new book Home is Where the Heart Strives – live and on air at Radio WORM.

At the heart of the event is sonic pluralism—a listening practice that sees sound as shaped by place, memory and movement.

Featuring Abdellah M. Hassak (remote) • Ahmed Essyad * Fatima-Zahra Lakrissa * Francesca Ceccherini (Zaira Oram) • Gilles Aubry * Lawrence Abu Hamdan * Leila Bencharnia * Mohamed Chakiri * Othmane Hmimar (Hoba Hoba Spirit) * Philipp Rhensius (Norient) * Teresa Pepe * Tizintizwa * Yumi Murakami

Film screenings Trances * Salam Godzilla * L’Makina * The Diary of a Sky * Amussu * Apartheid Casablanca * A (Rough) Seasonal Work Song * A Song to the Oar * Casablanca * Aşk, Mark ve Ölüm / Love, Deutschmarks and Death * Les Yeux Secs

Book design by Maria Uthe and Arief Wibisono. Cover photography by Ronja Falkenbach from the series «Cat on the leash» .Trailer design by Carroll Omuom «Cat on the leash»
   
 

We are thrilled to present our new book Home is Where the Heart Strives with Philipp Rhensius
Fri, Sept 20, 4.30-5.30pm CET
Venue: Vega Scene broadcast live on Radio WORM

Home is Where the Heart Strives explores what place means in music and sound, looking at the bordes and the unseen connections between them. From a metalhead smuggling banned tapes across the Syrian border to voguing oasis in the mountains of Bogotá, it asks: How does place shape music? Can one listen beyond one’s history? 85 contributors from 38 countries map their sonic landscapes of migration, war, queerness, and home through essays, poetry, and images.

Hosted by editor Philipp Rhensius, the presentation features short readings, visual inputs, and a conversation with contributing author and Ethnomusicology/Performance Studies reader at the Holloway University of London, Shrz Ee Tan. She is committed to decolonial work and EDI (Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion) practice in sound studies and the performing arts. 
 

home is where the heart strives collage

 

 

 

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