Sound in Museums:
On the Presence of Sounding and Listening in Exhibitions
Alcina Cortez, Gabriele Rossi Rognoni, Holger Schulze, Eric de Visscher

Part I: Towards the Sonic Museum
Edited by Eric de Visscher

The Sonic Museum: Fiction or Reality?
Introduction
Eric de Visscher

“With Hidden Noise”:
Sonic Presence in Museums
Eric de Visscher

Globalisto methodology, Museums Beyond the Concert Hall
Ntshepe Tsekere Bopape also known as Mo Laudi

”Touching at a Distance”:
Rethinking the Museum Podcast
Emily Candela

Sound(ing) Objects and Museums:
Recomposing the Fracture
Gabriele Rossi Rognoni

A Sound Art Museum in Beijing
Using Sound to Explore New Curatorial Models
Colin Siyuan Chinnery

Elevating Sound in Museums
Kate Bailey

Music and Sound at the Edge of the Imagination:
Comparing Popular Music Museums and Composer Museums
Charles Fairchild

Part II: Sonic Critique
Edited by Holger Schulze

A Sonically Anchored Critique of Museums:
Introduction
Holger Schulze

The Soundful Art Museum:
Sound in Excess of the Art Gallery
Caleb Kelly

Uncurating Sound:
Proposal for an Anti-Fascist (Art) Museum
Salomé Voegelin

What do Black Women Sound like in the Museum?
The Sonic Mood and Laughter as Black Women's Curatorial Strategy
Portia Malatjie

The Role of Aural Diversity in Exhibitions and Museums
Andrew Hugill

Lost in Translation?
Manifestations of Music in Museum Contexts
Johannes Brusila

Listening is Never Alone
Rasmus Holmboe

Part III: Spaces for Listening
Edited by Holger Schulze & Eric de Visscher

"Space is the Place“: Museums as Sites of Aural Architecture
Introduction
Holger Schulze and Eric de Visscher

Making a Museum for Sound: Rethinking Sound Technologies at the National Science and Media Museum
Annie Jamieson and James G. Mansell

The Art of Designing Sound for Spaces
Holger Schulze and Eric de Visscher in conversation with Ramon De Marco

Exhibiting Musical Sound:
Creating a New Exhibition for the Carl Nielsen Museum
Peter Hauge and Michael Fjeldsøe

Immersive Exhibitions, or:
What Happens to Architecture?
Carlotta Darò

Acoustic Scenography:
Guiding a Visitor Through Sounding Exhibits
Holger Schulze

The Digital Audio Space as Museum
Stefania Zardini Lacedelli

Part IV: Auditory Cognition
Edited by Alcina Cortez

Is There Cognition Out There? Sound and the Embodied Museum Visitor
Introduction
Alcina Cortez

How Humans Relate to Sound:
An Introduction to Auditory-Cognitive Theories, Methods, and Findings
Lena Heng and Annabel J. Cohen

On the Meanings of Sound:
Cognition and the Curatorial
Alcina Cortez

On the Meanings of Sound:
Conversations
Alcina Cortez with Will Worsley and Sam Britton (Coda to Coda)

Shaping Aesthetic Experience in Museums with Originally Composed Music
Biljana Jokic and Aleksandar Vl. Markovic

Attuning to the Past:
Exploring the Role of Sound and Atmospheres in Museum Experiences
Birgitte Folmann and Jonas Rasmussen Kirkegaard

Augmented Listening:
The Future of Sonic Cognition in Museum Spaces
Ian McGregor

Toward a Cognitive Semiotic Framework for Sound in Museums
Juan Chattah

Part V: Technological Mediation
Edited by Gabriele Rossi Rognoni

Technological Mediation
Introduction
Gabriele Rossi Rognoni

A Sonic Boom:
Sound Art Exhibited, Some Questions and Answers
David Toop and Minoru Hatanaka

Music and Musical Instruments at the Science Museum London:
Origins, sequels and possibilities
Tim Boon

Applied Sound Design:
Technologies in Case Studies and Visitor Experience
Cécile Cros, Simon Cacheux, Julia Griner

Audio Augmented Reality Experiences with Bone Conduction Technology
Andrea Gozzi

Exploring Digital Resurrections of Historical Musical Instruments:
Interactive Museum Installations and Extended Reality
Stefania Serafin

AI Agency and Techno-Animism in Sound Installations:
Interpretation, Succession and the Listening of Embodied Behavior
Motoki Ohkubo