Sonic Days 2024: Full Schedule

09:30 CET

Sound in Museums: Welcome

Wednesday November 20, 2024 09:30 - 09:45 CET

4.40 - Conference Room

Speakers

Birgitte Folmann

Senior Associate Professor, Sonic College

Alcina Cortez

Sound Studies Researcher, NOVA University Lisbon

A PhD in ethnomusicology and museum studies and a curator, I am committed to exploring the diverse communicative capacities of sound, encompassing its representational, emotional, and sensory dimensions. My goal is to gain insights into how people connect with sound, both in their... Read More →

Wednesday November 20, 2024 09:30 - 09:45 CET
4.40 - Conference Room Universitetsparken 2, Kolding, Danmark

Sound in Museums

09:45 CET

Alcina Cortez - Sound in Museums

Wednesday November 20, 2024 09:45 - 10:45 CET

4.40 - Conference Room

Speakers

Alcina Cortez

Sound Studies Researcher, NOVA University Lisbon

Wednesday November 20, 2024 09:45 - 10:45 CET
4.40 - Conference Room Universitetsparken 2, Kolding, Danmark

Sound in Museums, Academic

11:00 CET

Spatial Soundpiece for Rudolph Tegners museum

Wednesday November 20, 2024 11:00 - 12:00 CET

4.40 - Conference Room

At this session Ditte Rønn will give insight into her creative process in creating outdoor spatial soundart at Rudolph Tegners Museum & Statuepark in northern zealand, Denmark. Primarily using acoustic instruments, Ditte has drawn inspiration from the work of sculptor Tegner (1873-1950) composing three album-like soundpieces that dialogues with the environment using omnidirectional speakers hanging in the trees. This listening session will also include insight into challenges, overall compositional and conceptual methods, as well as artistic thoughts about the potential in cross-aesthetic based soundart.
Her colleague and sounddesigner Yann Coppier, who has been spatial mixing the pieces together with Ditte, also gives a brief insight into his methods and thoughts using Spat Revolution in this case.

Just after this session the soundscape will be played in a version prepared for the immersive speaker system in the Atrium at UC-Syd/Sonic College. Be prepared for a unique listening experience.

Speakers

Ditte Rønn

Contemporary composer Ditte Rønn is working with both live music and cross-aesthetic multi speaker soundpieces especially in a museum context. In a unique inspiration from a wide variation of music genres, musicians and methods from improvisation and notated music, she develops sensuous... Read More →

Wednesday November 20, 2024 11:00 - 12:00 CET
4.40 - Conference Room Universitetsparken 2, Kolding, Danmark

Sound in Museums, Case

13:30 CET

Wings of Imagination: The Affordances of Sound in Museum Exhibitions

Wednesday November 20, 2024 13:30 - 14:30 CET

4.40 - Conference Room

Museums have been described as exhibitionary complexes and scopic regimes, both concepts stressing their orientation towards display and visuality, what Martin Jay has also characterized as ocularcentrism. However, new technologies have enabled other modalities, most notably sound, to become ingrained in contemporary exhibition design.
According to media theorist Marshall McLuhan a hot medium is relying on one sense modality in high definition requiring low participation from the audience. A cool medium, on the other hand, provides less detailed, or fragmented, information requiring more participation. Thus, following the ocularcentrism of exhibitions, they could be considered as hot media environments. Consequently, also including sound in the exhibition design could be considered as a cooling of, or tempering of the media environment, requiring, or enabling, more participation from the visitor.
Thinking along with McLuhans temperature metaphor, and applying it to exhibition design, we explore the affordances of sound as a tempering of the media environment of exhibitions that simultaneously requires and enables visitors to use their imagination more actively in the meaning-making – giving wings to their imagination, metaphorically speaking. Thus, sound provides exhibition designers with opportunities to engage in more complex storytelling.
We substantiate our argument with illustrative examples from the H.C. Andersen’s House in Odense, The Viking Sorceress exhibition at the National Museum of Denmark and the exhibition Might and Magic in the ruins underneath Christiansborg Castle in Copenhagen.
We discuss whether a more temperate, or balanced, media environment can counteract the ocularcentric bias of the exhibition medium and afford more complex meaning-making experiences. We argue that such an approach, placing more demands on the visitors’ participation and engagement, might appeal to some visitors but alienate others. Finally, we challenge the premise of McLuhan’s temperature metaphor and discuss how certain ways of using exhibition sound might actually “heat up” the experience rather than “cooling” it down.

Speakers

Christian Hviid Mortensen

Vitus Vestergaard

Vitus Vestergaard is associate professor of Media Studies at the University of Southern Denmark where he teaches media production such as podcasting. A trained sound designer, he is interested in all things related to sound, most recently focusing on mobile high-performance speakers... Read More →

Wednesday November 20, 2024 13:30 - 14:30 CET
4.40 - Conference Room Universitetsparken 2, Kolding, Danmark

Sound in Museums, Academic

15:00 CET

Designing Sound Worlds for Museums - Challenges and Creative Opportunities

Wednesday November 20, 2024 15:00 - 16:00 CET

4.40 - Conference Room

In this session, David Kamp will explore the unique challenges and creative opportunities of working with museums, focusing on two standout projects: the immersive 360° show "Invisible Worlds" for the American Museum of Natural History in New York City, and "Bauhaus Sound" for the Bauhaus Foundation in Dessau, Germany. David will share insights into the production process for both projects, highlighting how they compare to his work in sound for visual art, animated shorts and audio branding. He'll examine key differences in teamwork, client expectations, workflows, and timelines, offering his perspective on museum sound design in contrast to other industries.

Speakers

David Kamp

Founder, STUDIOKAMP

David Kamp is a composer, sound designer and sound artist. Since 2009 based in Berlin, he works with animators, visual artists, companies, galleries, NGOs and cultural institutions worldwide. Services of his studio include music composition and recording, sound design, audio branding... Read More →

Wednesday November 20, 2024 15:00 - 16:00 CET
4.40 - Conference Room Universitetsparken 2, Kolding, Danmark

Sound in Museums

09:30 CET

On the awakening of high security glass displays in museums with light and sound

Thursday November 21, 2024 09:30 - 10:30 CET

4.40 - Conference Room

This presentation examines how artefacts in museum exhibitions can become more dynamic by utilizing innovative display technologies and augmented mediation, moving beyond traditional glass displays. We propose methods for organizing and staging artefacts with temporal considerations, suggesting that their atmospheric influence spreads through the exhibition space like slow ripples in water, in contrast to Böhme's concept of instantaneous radiation. By theorizing and incorporating temporal structuring into artefact staging, we offer practical strategies for curators and designers to blend the sensory, emotional, and factual aspects of artefacts into the exhibition atmosphere. This approach involves a timeline-based layout of media content, emphasizing how the key atmospheric phenomenon of attunement unfolds over time, enhancing the artefacts' atmospheric, factual, and relational impact within museum spaces.

Speakers

Jonas Kirkegaard

Lecturer & Internship coordinator, Sonic College

BIO: Jonas R. Kirkegaard (1982) is a danish sound artist, composer and sound designer working in the field of interaction design, sound installations, multi channel composition and designing “place specific” atmospheres through sound. Upon replacing nano science with music studies... Read More →

Birgitte Folmann

Senior Associate Professor, Sonic College

Thursday November 21, 2024 09:30 - 10:30 CET
4.40 - Conference Room Universitetsparken 2, Kolding, Danmark

Sound in Museums, Academic

11:00 CET

New Struer Museum and the National Center for Sonic Cultural Heritage

Thursday November 21, 2024 11:00 - 12:00 CET

4.40 - Conference Room

Struer Museum is on a voyage to become a museum for sound and listening. This talk takes you on the first steps of that voyage, and considers some of the implications for a museum in engaging with sound in all core museological activities. We present some central concepts for the future Struer Museum, we introduce the newly founded National Center for Sonic Cultural Heritage, and ask what is and what could become sonic heritage?

Speakers