The Sounding Museum: Box of Treasures

Hein Schoer

• Publisher: transcript Verlag
• Year: 2014
• Print ISBN: 9783837628562
• eBook ISBN: 9783839428566
• Topic: Education
• Subtopic: Museum Studies

The »Sounding Museum« fuses anthropology, acoustic ecology, soundscape composition, and trans-cultural communication inside the context of museum education.

Based on the piece »Two Weeks in Alert Bay«, it supplies researchers, practitioners, and audiences with an instrument to gain an acoustic image of the contemporary cultural and everyday life of the Kwakwaka'wakw of Alert Bay, BC. The project mediates intercultural competence thorough the affective agency of sound.

With the coeval »Session Musician's Approach«, introduced and analysed in text, audio, and interactive form, it also bridges the gap between art, science, and education.

With a foreword by Barry Truax.

The box includes a book, 2 DVD and 1 CD.

Table of contents

• The Sounding Museum: Box of Treasures (front design)
• readme_first
• Digital Treasures (sleeve and disk designs)
• Four Worlds (book cover)
• Foreword
• Acknowledgements
• Full Table of Contents
• Four Worlds: A Sound Entry
• Raven and Mink Go Bear Hunting
• World One: Hearing Heritage
• How Raven Stole the Sun
• World Two: Into the Sonic Wild
• Prologue
• Between the Worlds: How to make a Good Soundscape Composition and the Session Musician Approach
• Raven and the First Men
• World Three: The Ethnographer’s Ear
• Raven and Fog Woman
• World Four: Acoustic Experiences at the Lake
• The Two Ravens
• Next World: The Way of the Mask
• Resources
• Notes on Audio Media
• About the Author