products on the norient space by Philipp Rhensius

Home is Where the Heart Strives explores what place means in relation to music and sound. 85 contributors from 38 countries map their sonic landscapes of migration, war, queerness, and home through essays, poems, articles, artworks, photos, and songs.

What happens to curatorial practices when treated as multi-voiced, pluralistic, and process-based? The 32 contributors from all over the world, ask what curatorship could be when it is freed from its elitist notions.

30 writers from 17 countries share their thoughts on today’s world through sound and music, unraveling narratives about worries, dreams, and hopes in the 21st century – from feminist activism to critiques of sound and space design as instruments of (colonial) power.

An examination of how political contexts of our time are transformed into musical production. Among other accounts from around the world, we follow the sampling of car horns in Indonesia or read about an Italian refugee project that uses smartphones as sampling resources.