Gallery Whispers and Lunch in the Cafe: Mapping Museums Through Their Sounds
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“There are so many sounds in museums that we usually ignore that are absolutely engrossing once you take the time to focus on them,” says artist John Kannenberg, who’s been recording museum noise for 15 years. “Standing in a space like the Great Court at the British Museum is so amazing to me — all that reverb and swampy, thick and thin sound. Sitting in a very quiet gallery while people whisper to each other, that dense amount of silence with wispy little bits of unintelligible dialogue, practically gives me goosebumps.”
Last month Kannenberg released “A Sound Map of the Art Institute of Chicago” with 3LEAVES, a Hungarian label focused on field-recording-based sound art. The hourlong soundscape is Kannenberg’s second in a series of museum portraits using their quiet and cacophonous elements. Back in 2011, also with 3LEAVES, he released a sound map of the Egyptian Museum in Cairo, the project that started him on turning his museum field recordings into psychogeographies of the institutions.
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