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Norient aims to co-create and spread cutting edge research around music and sound. We provide space and places for scholars and researchers from many disciplines, worldwide, established and young, to create a community of practice. One aim of Norient is to increase the public visibility and acceptance of research fields such as ethnomusicology, popular music studies, sound studies, digital humanities, media studies, postcolonial studies, and artistic research.

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The Norient Space «The Sound of Now» provides a Reseachers Space for ethnographic data and bachelor, master’s, and PhD theses.

We offer Memberships for students, researchers, and for instiutions for teaching curated Norient content at your university or education facility.

Norient Books offers the opportunity to publish your research and more as an individual monograph or as part of innovative and multi media online series.

Through the Norient Shop we sell academic and non-academic books.

We provide scholars from our network from 50+ countries to host lectures or full seminars, speak at panels or other occasions.

We were and are research and media partners in various research projects, help to spread your research to people, link you up with scholars across the world, become close research partners ourselves, and are open to your ideas. Get in touch with us.


«To pay attention to things – to watch for their movements and listen to their sounds – is to catch the world in the act.»

Tim Ingold, Anthropology: Why It Matters
 


Research must reach the public and must not be hidden in university libraries. Only in this way can it initiate social developments.


«To write ethnographies on the model of collage would be to avoid the portrayal of cultures as organic wholes.»

James Clifford, On Ethnographic Surrealism


How can we get closer to phenomena, add more perspectives, ask better questions, and produce deeper, more nuanced knowledge? How can we communicate research to diverse publics? And what are new formats to discuss contemporary culture, music and societies with? These questions are at the core of Norient.

Norient is ethnography as a multi-authored collage.


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We Believe in

  • multi-disciplinary research
  • multi-authored research
  • multi-lingual research
  • multiple perspectives
  • ethnography
  • collage and juxtaposition
  • experimental and audio-visual research formats

Keynote by Jenny Mbaye (City University, London) (photo: Daniel Allenbach)
Panel discussion with Umlilo, Laurence Desarzens (HEMU Site du Flon, Lausanne), and Ali Gul Pir, moderated by Theresa Beyer (Norient) (photo: Daniel Allenbach)