Why Listen to Museums? at The National Gallery
Why Listen to Museums? is a talk I gave at the National Gallery in London on 4 September 2015. It discusses the sonic experience of museums, psithurism, making sound maps, listening to narrative paintings, goofing off in Tate Modern, and what to do when confronted by soldiers with rifles while trying to sneak an audio recorder into the Egyptian Museum in Cairo.
• Read this essay on my blog, Phonomnesis