An Equal Sound

Design by Anja Kaiser/Jim Kühnel.
An Equal Sound
An Equal Sound

Read this essay by artist, researcher, and writer Budhaditya Chattopadhyay on how a critical engagement with Global Souths, diasporic and Indigenous artists and thinkers, and their listening cultures could contribute towards equitable planetary conversations.

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Design: Anja Kaiser, Jim Kühnel

Mapping Memories

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Mapping Memories
Mapping Memories

To memorize a place and its emotional attachment to it, a form is needed. This is what our writer, Gisela Swaragita, is reminded of when listening to Liew Niyomkarn’s music, in which the musician captures moments of her childhood with field recordings.

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Design: Anja Kaiser, Jim Kühnel

Destroy With Your Own Hands

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Destroy With Your Own Hands
Destroy With Your Own Hands

What happens when a record player is played with acrylic nails instead of a needle? Read an essay by the scholar and writer Peggy Kyoungwon Lee in which she evokes a world that refuses to be reproduced.

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Design: Anja Kaiser, Jim Kühnel

More to Sound than Meets the Ears

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More to Sound than Meets the Ears
More to Sound than Meets the Ears

Read this essay by artistic researcher, and curator Heloisa Amaral, on modes of listening and the possibility of multiphonic attention.

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Design: Anja Kaiser, Jim Kühnel

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