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Sound is an integral part of the majority of our human experiences, but often takes a back seat when it comes to the "visual" arts. For many museum-goers, the perfect sound for experiencing art is silence. How do soundscapes shape the museum experience?
On the one hand, sound is increasingly taking centre stage as museums look to create well-rounded interactive and immersive experiences for their new/returning visitors. "Electro: from Kraftwerk to Daft Punk" used sound to narrate a specific history of music. On the other hand, silence is also taking centre stage in a new exhibition by Usomo exhibited at the Museum of Communication in Bern.
For this edition of Vastari Connects, we will be chatting to these two sound-related exhibition producers about using sound to create a standout exhibition experience and what they think the future of sound design technology will entail.
ELECTRO - From Kraftwerk to Daft Punk
Since 2010, the electro music is no longer reduced to the festivals, raves and festivals to which it is naturally associated: it stands out as a major artistic trend of contemporary culture. Accompanying the digital revolution, electronic dance music was born more than thirty years ago in the underground clubs of Chicago and Detroit. Influencing many areas of art, graphics, video, contemporary art, cinema, comics, dance, electro has given birth to a vast culture.
This exhibition explores electro through the discovery of its culture, including its aesthetics, imaginaries, technological innovations, main figureheads, territories and more. Simultaneously hedonistic and technological, radically different from traditional approaches, this exhibition offers a truly immersive audio and visual experience to recreate the party atmosphere central to this electronic music.
Sound of Silence
This is a multi-award winning exhibition where the absence of sound is powerfully staged and implemented as an exhibition. Sound of Silence was previously on display at the Museum of Communication in Bern, and has recently won the International Sound Award, the Brand Ex Award 2020 and the DDC Award 2020. The show has no objects, but instead visitors are equipped with a headphone-based audio system, and independently wander through the exhibition, accompanied by a bodiless voice that encourages, enlightens and challenges them.The interpretation of the material encountered on the way (in the form of immersive graphics) gains meaning exclusively through listening. Only occasionally do film sequences accompany what they have heard, an abstract spatial graphic in minimalist black and white and a few hints of colour help in the orientation in the 600 square meter room. Apart from a few seating options and room dividers made of filigree strings, there are no exhibits.
- museums
- exhibition
- exhibitiondesign
- sounddesign