Aesthetics Matter: New Ways of Storytelling

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Aesthetics Matter: New Ways of Storytelling
Aesthetics Matter: New Ways of Storytelling

How can people work together across the constraints of time and space, and the cultures they determine? In this conversation, Norient founder Thomas Burkhalter and the artists Abhishek Mathur and Suvani Suri discuss their work on the experimental podcast series Timezones.

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Design: Anja Kaiser, Jim Kühnel

Micologies

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Micologies
Micologies

This essay by Mark Peter Wright unpacks the microphone as an entangled instrument and fosters a listening practice that engages critically with the sounds one hears.

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Design: Anja Kaiser, Jim Kühnel

Norient Playlist 3/23: Bogotá

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Norient Playlist 3/23: Bogotá
Norient Playlist 3/23: Bogotá

The artists from this playlist cross borders in ancestral, traditional, and standard Brazilian aesthetics. Both the artists and the list’s curator have a common taste for breaking rules and sometimes respectfully facing a certain black status quo with anarchist acts.

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Sound: Binary Algorithms

Norient Mixtape #2: South Asian Pop meets Resistance

Norient Mixtape #2 – South Asian Pop meets Resistance (photo: Thomas Burkhalter/Jusomor).
Norient Mixtape #2 – South Asian Pop meets Resistance
Norient Mixtape #2: South Asian Pop meets Resistance

From M.I.A. to Charli XCX to Priya Ragu – South Asia between global pop, underground sounds, and protest. Norient founder Thomas Burkhalter travelled through South Asia for his upcoming podcast series «South Asian Sound Stories» and searched current sound streams.

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Quote: Yakawrath
Design: Jusomor
Sound: Aerate Sound

Norient Playlist 2/23: São Paulo

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Norient Playlist 2/23: São Paulo
Norient Playlist 2/23: São Paulo

The artists from this playlist cross borders in ancestral, traditional, and standard Brazilian aesthetics. Both the artists and the list’s curator have a common taste for breaking rules and sometimes respectfully facing a certain black status quo with anarchist acts.

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Sound: Mauricio Takara & Carla Boregas

5 Video Clips from Vietnam: Life Imitating Art

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5 Video Clips from Vietnam: Life Imitating Art
5 Video Clips from Vietnam: Life Imitating Art

While Vietnam faces devastating flooding in 2022, some musicians are turning the uncomfortable into a new playground. Watch 5 video clips curated by the Saigon-based music collective Gãy in which weird sounds and harsh cuts play with our senses.

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Quote: Gãy
Design: Maria Uthe

Norient Playlist 1/23: Ukraine

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Norient Playlist 1/23: Ukraine
Norient Playlist 1/23: Ukraine

A selection of some recent releases of Ukrainian experimental music, including artists from the TIMEZONES episode Ukraine. Several of the tracks were written or released during the war in 2022.

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Sound: Gamardah Fungus

The Dance Floor Is My Office

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The Dance Floor Is My Office
The Dance Floor Is My Office

In this essay, our author takes a closer look at Polish filmmaker Jan Moszumański’s film «Singeli Movement: Greed for Speed» and uses it as a starting point for a reflection on the genre’s grounding in the digital age and the dissonances embedded deep in its music.

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Design: Maria Uthe

Music or Weapon: Four Monologues from Ukraine

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Music or Weapon: Four Monologues from Ukraine
Music or Weapon: Four Monologues from Ukraine

Episode 14 of the «Timezones» podcast series features four candid testimonials by Ukrainian artists recorded in the summer of 2022, a few months after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

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Design: Šejma Fere

Ghost City, Tear Gas, Novel Rhythm, Nowhere to Go

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Ghost City, Tear Gas, Novel Rhythm, Nowhere to Go
Ghost City, Tear Gas, Novel Rhythm, Nowhere to Go

By thinking about and with sound, we experience the world through embodied practices. In her mesmerizing sonic essay based on field recordings in a protest-struck Cairo, our contributor asks: How are bodies, things, and cityscapes interconnected?

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Design: Ali Sayah

Norient Playlist 12/22: Buenos Aires

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Norient Playlist 12/22: Buenos Aires
Norient Playlist 12/22: Buenos Aires

A selection of eclectic, experimental, electroacoustic music from Buenos Aires, Argentina. All these compositions explore the plasticity of sound. They take us by the ear into hallucinations that are as beautiful as they are chaotic, noisy, or delirious.

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Design: Maria Uthe
Sound: Beatriz Ferreyra