: Creating the Music for Museums It's is pretty fascinating how museums take over the place of the concert hall, where you would normally go, sit back and listen to your favourite band or orchestra. What is great about Minimalist, Avant-garde, Fluxus and Contemporary Music retrospectives, presented in museum, is that this institution is the place, where the artworks are not supposed to be sold. Just preserved, presented, be available to public. Well, and or course, a little bit modified to be really accessible. The Art of Listening You have huge team or curators, their assistants and museum guides, who's job is to introduce you to the artworks, create a bridge between you and the piece that you're hearing or seeing, help you to perceive better/deeper/with more insights - be it a painting, be it an installation or performance. Very often, contemplative experience of the public is followed by discussion with the artists or curator. And on rare occasions, one really gets to discuss with one or another. You might be lucky to catch a your favourite vocalist after the concert as well, but that's not where I'm heading. It's stimulating to hear what personal approaches and insights artists had after the same events : Artist Talks Online : Reshaping the experience and getting more digital Most of the time, events will be documented, and pod-casts, teasers, short video documentaries or artist talks can be found on-line afterwards. The experience of the artwork gains a way bigger picture than decade or few ago, when internet was still a science fiction. The events become more personal experiences of artist or curator, gives you the idea, that most of the artworks have their continuity, spacial and temporal. One can get the idea about artist's personality, and to find out, that the works of someone that you really apprieciate, had different creative intentions from what you might have imagined (for ex. I had to experience this recently, then I went to an artist talk, and found out, that a certain F.H. actually likes selling his artworks and likes money a lot, AND that he shares this openly). One can as well break the image of an artist as someone very mystical, of someone who has a peculiar way of thinking, and lives in it's own reality. I actually still believe that many people have this image of "artist". : Approach it as you like It's of course a pity, you can not resurrect such pioneers as Nam Jun Paik, John Cage, but you have the impression as if they are present in the room, since every possible media is at work and gives you audible, visual and gustatory pleasures. For instance, John Cages was well known for this fascination with mushroom. Maybe one on the curators made a step further and going to give it's visitors a little surprise treat? You still can go and check the event of Music for Museums in London, White Chapel Gallery. As I said, you might go for Audio Interventions, Films or similar events. But is there any differences between music created for institutions and between music only played at one?
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