Norient

࿐ Why are artists increasingly drawn to uncertainty? 

Through site-specific concerts of Shane Parish, Laura Masotto, Michela de Mattei and Palm Wine, and Kenichi Iwasa at Festival in the Italian Alps, our author Rebecca Favale explores a growing desire for performances shaped by nature, chance, and immersion.

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📸 photos by Sofia Lambrou, Dimitri D’Ippolito, Rachel Orcutt
💬 article copy edited by Tucker Wiedenkeller ()
🗓 published 06/2026

𝑵𝒆𝒙𝒕𝒐𝒏𝒆𝒔 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟔 𝑱𝒖𝒍𝒚 𝟏𝟔-𝟏𝟗
📍 Ossola Valley, Italy
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🎨 Visual identity by Rachele Daminelli
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𝐖𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐀𝐠𝐚𝐢𝐧𝐬𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐀𝐫𝐜𝐡𝐢𝐯𝐞

From colonial newspaper to piano score: «A Symphony of Archives» by transforms historical traces into living sound.

In this conversation from the Ultima Festival in Oslo in 2025, curator Francesca Ceccherini (Zaira Oram) speaks with Ash Kilmartin (Radio WORM) about territory, memory, and the notion of «situated listening».  

🔗 norient.com/francesca-ceccherini/writing-against-archive  
with a live recording from 2022 w/ pianist .kordzaia

📒𝑫𝒖𝒔𝒕 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝑭𝒓𝒆𝒒𝒖𝒆𝒏𝒄𝒊𝒆𝒔 

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Ahmed Essyad @​​leila.rufus

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🗓 published 03/2026

«We want to share a part of this voguing oasis that we have known together, to transmit the aesthetic, political, and sound richness being breathed into Bogotá's Ballrom culture.» Vera Fonseca & Diana Santos

Vera and Diana delve into Bogotá’s contradictions of inequality and resilience in diversity, they reveal how a local Ballroom is created adjacent to music genres like merengue and perreo. 

This essay identifies shared meanings, discontinuities, and local innovations in the Ballroom scenes in New York and Bogotá.

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Vera Fonseca .bugambiliaa is a trans woman, visual artist, and sociologist from Pontificia Universidad Javeriana in Bogotá, Colombia.

Diana Santos  is a sociologist with experience in researching the artistic and cultural practices of individuals with non-hegemonic sexual orientations and gender identities. She’s the founder of .
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𝑯𝒐𝒎𝒆 𝒊𝒔 𝑾𝒉𝒆𝒓𝒆 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝑯𝒆𝒂𝒓𝒕 𝑺𝒕𝒓𝒊𝒗𝒆𝒔
💬edited by .liechti
💻 featuring essays, poems, articles, artworks, photos and sound pieces by 85 contributors from 38 countries
📚 book and cover design by Maria Uthe    and Arief Wibisono
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🖊️copy editing by Tash Siddiqui and Meredith Slifkin
🗓 published 06/2025 at Norient Books 
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ℹ️This essay is part of the virtual exhibition Norient City Sounds: Bogotá curated and edited by Luisa Uribe . It was first published on the Norient Space on August 22, 2024.

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«People in Porto were much more interested in doing their own stuff than actually trying to follow a specific trend and that created a very unique music output.» Gustavo Costa, Sonoscopia - Platform for Experimental Music 

Gustavo Costa’s sonic vision is characterized by a constant openness to musical styles but with a common denominator: experimentation and the constant desire for stylistic renewal. Active in the underground scene since the early 1990s, and part of countless bands and formations since then, he maintained an interest and parallel engagement with the academic world.

In recent years, he has concentrated a large part of his activity in — the collective and association of which he has founded —  where he dedicates himself to the sonic exploration through various formats of creation and collaboration.

The latest TIMEZONES podcast episode comes from Porto, Portugal, and opens up the question: How does the current social and political climate shape — and gets shaped by — the way we listen to the city? 

𖣘 Listen to the podcast in the bio link 𖣘

𝑻𝑰𝑴𝑬𝒁𝑶𝑵𝑬𝑺 𝑷𝒐𝒓𝒕𝒐 
𝑹𝒆𝒔𝒐𝒖𝒏𝒅𝒔: 𝑺𝒐𝒖𝒏𝒅, 𝑺𝒑𝒂𝒄𝒆, 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝑪𝒉𝒂𝒏𝒈𝒆
🎙Podcast episode 23 by
🎵 featuring Alexandre Soares ,  Gustavo Costa , Luca Massolin , Paula Lopes , and Pedro Melo Segurado

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🗓 published 04/2026
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𝑰 𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒏𝒌 𝒐𝒇 𝒎𝒚𝒔𝒆𝒍𝒇 𝒍𝒊𝒔𝒕𝒆𝒏𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒕𝒐 𝒑𝒐𝒑 𝒔𝒐𝒏𝒈𝒔
𝒄𝒓𝒚𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒐𝒗𝒆𝒓 𝒂 𝒍𝒐𝒔𝒕 𝒍𝒐𝒗𝒆
𝒉𝒐𝒘 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒔𝒐𝒏𝒈𝒔 𝒘𝒆𝒓𝒆 𝒂𝒃𝒐𝒖𝒕 𝒎𝒆
𝒘𝒉𝒊𝒍𝒆 𝑰 𝒅𝒊𝒅𝒏’𝒕 𝒖𝒏𝒅𝒆𝒓𝒔𝒕𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒂 𝒔𝒊𝒏𝒈𝒍𝒆 𝒍𝒊𝒏𝒆

An exerpt of the poem Music is Language Without Signification by Tillmann Severin, who writes poetry and prose.

📒𝑯𝒐𝒎𝒆 𝒊𝒔 𝑾𝒉𝒆𝒓𝒆 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝑯𝒆𝒂𝒓𝒕 𝑺𝒕𝒓𝒊𝒗𝒆𝒔 🇴‌🇺‌🇹‌ 🇳‌🇴‌🇼‌
💬edited by .liechti
💻 featuring essays, poems, articles, artworks, photos and sound pieces by 85 contributors from 38 countries
📚 book and cover design by Maria Uthe    and Arief Wibisono
📸 cover photo by
🎬communication by
🖊️copy editing by Tash Siddiqui and Meredith Slifkin
🗓 published 06/2025 at Norient Books
📦available in the Norient Shop, Bandcamp and BigCartel EUR 29.–