'Sound Galleries': Embedding and Curating Sound at the Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford, UK

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Dear All,

The Pitt Rivers Museum (PRM) has been collecting music, sound and instruments for over 100 years. ‘Sound Galleries’ is a series of ongoing events and films designed to explore the role of sound, listening and performance in cultures. The galleries of the Museum are plunged into darkness and then bathed in music, sound and roving performances. Visitors move through the galleries exploring the spaces by torchlight.

On Saturday July 20th 2013 Nathaniel Mann (Sound and Music Embedded Composer in Residence at the PRM and OCM), Noel Lobley (sound curator, DJ, and ethnomusicologist at the PRM), and Rupert Gill (DJ) curated an evening of sound, light and performance designed to transform and reveal the Museum galleries. The performance was an integral part of ‘The Future of Ethnographic Museums’ international conference hosted by the PRM and Keble College, University of Oxford (19th – 21st July 2013).

A film of the event, which can be watched via the link below, begins with Nathaniel Mann embedding a moving performance within the galleries using re-purposed instruments. Nathaniel moves through a soundtrack that has been mixed from the Museum’s sound archive by Noel Lobley, joining the ethnographic and the avant garde.

http://pittrivers-sound.blogspot.co.uk/2013/12/embedding-and-curating-so...

Kind regards,

Noel
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Dr Noel Lobley
Ethnomusicologist Research Associate, Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford

http://pittrivers-sound.blogspot.co.uk/
http://web.prm.ox.ac.uk/reel2real/
@NoelLobley
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