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Norient explores the world through music and sound. We conceive audio and noise as seismographs of our time and offer insights into strong, fragile, and experimental (artistic) positions of today, challenging mainstreams, and surface realities. The goal is to initiate dialogue around hopes, possibilities, and fears of contemporary life in a digitized world.
Experience new stories of today from across the globe.
In Short: Norient Is for Everyone
- who loves music, sound, noise, or soundscapes
- enjoys audio-visual stories and experiments
- wishes to experience the contemporary world
- hopes to foresee possible futures
What We Aim for:
- Norient empowers niche positions and phenomena.
- Norient provides navigation and counters algorithms with a network of currently 250 thinkers and artists from 50+ countries.
- Norient stories are up-close, audio-visual, critical, and created collaboratively with and for people of various backgrounds, disciplines, age and gender.
We Tell our Stories Through the Ear. Why:
- Audio phenomena are seismographs of time.
- Music from niche scenes, sound recordings from cities, villages or nature, and noises from factories or warfare are precise indicators on what is happening today.
- Through the ear we observe, discover, and reflect about the variety of changes we go through on our planet.
- We explore through contemporary music what is thinkable today and possible tomorrow.
Explore the world through sound and find out about strong, fragile, and challenging (artistic) positions in today’s fast-moving, globalized, digitized, and urbanized world.
We hope to broaden our and your horizon and engage you in our steady questioning of fixed ideas, canons and mainstreams. Discover multi-perspective thoughts and visions of a new world. From Zimbabwe to Novosibirsk, from Syria to Feuerland, brought to you via text, audio, film, photography, and experimental formats.
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Norientation
Reader & Writer Contract
Everything you consume on Norient makes you smarter (every day).
Norient builds junctions across different disciplines, thinkers and artists, and people of different backgrounds, age groups and gender.
Norient supports high quality journalism and academic research and is aiming to create a community of practice and knowledge, which translates its findings in an entertaining and meaningful manner.
Norient empowers thinkers and artists to produce new knowledge in order to orient and disorient in today’s fast changing world.
Norient Snaps by Thomas Burkhalter + Annegreth Schärli (gut & schön, Zürich)