Museum Soundings — a museum within museums

Cadences — a playlist

Companion to the essay · RCL nº 64

A set drawn from the Activity Log: the soundings named in Snap, Hiss, Crackle, Pop, gathered in the order the essay meets them, from the canteen’s clamour to the studio’s drift. Where the full Log is the whole repurposed database, this is the subset that accompanies the essay for readers of the journal.

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No.SoundingTypeDur.Status
001 Field Recordings The canteen’s afternoon clamour giving way to lockdown’s eerie quiet; mechanical hum in emptied galleries, security radios crackling. field recording[tbc]in prep
002 Sound Walk Wanderings through the museum’s public galleries and back-of-house alike, cutting across its borders. sound walk[tbc]in prep
004 Voice Notes Thoughts whispered in the darkroom’s red glow, caught on things read and listened to, half-formed. voice note[tbc]in prep
007 Surfacing Images Digital images surfacing; shrouded objects, held between capture and record. imagein prep
003 Snap, Hiss, Crackle, Pop Eighteen seconds of the commode’s acoustic emissions: what the instruments logged as risk, replayed as material life becoming audible. acoustic emission00:18live
008 In the studio, drifting The Henry Cole Wing reverberating: the scanning camera’s pitch, flashlights popping, a studio radio drifting with the street. audiovisual03:17live
Numbers are the Activity Log’s own; the set is a listening order, not a sequence. Entries marked in prep are named in the essay and are being built out.
Part of Museum Soundings. → the full Activity Log · Supporting Documentation