Webinar Feature
Why Sound? How might a deeper focus on sound and listening shift interactions with Museum collections | Presented by Doug Friesen
Sound and Listening can be beyond, “thicker” than sight. Listening is embodied and multisensorial.
In the featured video Doug Friesen, teacher and musician based in Toronto, examines how a deeper focus on sound and listening could shift interactions with Museum collections.
Sound can transcend normative experiences with artifacts, the building, and extend experience to beyond an institution’s walls. Below are a few possibilities for audio in and at your organization:
- Soundwalks through and around your museum
- Soundscape: the acoustic environment as perceived by humans, in context.
- Sounding your artifacts
- Adding sound to sight
- Musicians / artists improvise with / within your museum space
- Sound Mapping – placing sound recordings on a map to record and socially evaluate sounds of environments
Video Resources
soundmuseum.ca – A critical practitioner research project on the sound and listening pedagogies of R. Murray Schafer and Pauline Oliveros
Massey Hall Sound Museum – An archive of downloadable sounds in the hall (chairs, stage floor squeaks, bar fridge, etc) with lessons for educators
Livable Soundscape Toolkit – A toolkit from SFU for running soundscape assessment with community members
Citizen DJ – Library of Congress Audio Recording Archive and Beat Project by Brian Foo
Walking Lab – Art research-creation projects through walking with a focus on sound
BBC Sound effect archive – easily searchable archive of BBC audio