Sonic Futures: Collecting, Curating and Engaging with Sound at the National Science and Media Museum

我们的博物馆讲述了我们是谁和我们来自哪里的故事。他们收集将我们与过去联系在一起并激励我们未来的物品。尽管许多博物馆帮助我们以新的方式观看和感受，但很少有博物馆教会我们以不同的方式倾听。布拉德福德的国家科学和媒体博物馆有了一项新的使命，要讲述声音技术的故事。从电视机到收音机，从留声机到合成器，这些东西本来是要被听到的。它们包含了我们过去如何聆听并将我们带入过去的声波氛围的令人回味的历史。他们的聪明才智可以激励我们以新的方式发挥创造力。它们也可以帮助我们以不同的方式思考我们的数字媒体生活：从我们的智能手机到Alexa扬声器，麦克风和扬声器无处不在，但我们很少停下来思考这意味着什么。博物馆传统上不是发声的地方，参观者通常不会准备好聆听。该项目将通过测试国家科学与媒体博物馆的新型可听展品和新型发声活动，在博物馆展示声音技术。该项目将与博物馆的观众团体合作，共同为未来的展览开发新的展品。三个团队将与创意从业者合作，创作各种主题的创新展览，主题包括声音明信片(明信片中包含一张可以在家里播放的唱片)、为BBC电视节目Doctor Who创作原创主题曲的Delia Derbyshire的开创性技术，以及流行音乐和摇滚乐中使用的回声机器。我们不会先制作这些展品，然后再问人们他们的想法，而是把观众带到这个过程的开始。这两个团体制作的展品将与名为“声音的形状”的新展览并驾齐驱，并继续为博物馆新的永久画廊的发展提供信息。策展人将了解观众从声音技术收藏中想要什么，以及他们如何在画廊空间聆听。观众将了解声音技术的历史及其在博物馆中的地位。

Our museums tell stories about who we are and where we've come from. They collect objects that connect us to the past and inspire our futures. Though many museums have helped us to see and feel in new ways, few teach us to hear differently. The National Science and Media Museum in Bradford has a new mission to tell the story of sound technologies. From TV sets to radios and gramophones to synthesisers, these objects were meant to be heard. They contain evocative histories of how we used to hear and take us into the sonic atmosphere of the past. Their ingenuity can inspire us to get creative in new ways. They can help us think differently about our digital media lives, too: microphones and speakers are everywhere from our smartphones to our Alexa speakers, but we rarely stop to think about what this means. Museums have not traditionally been places for sound and their visitors do not usually arrive ready to listen. This project will put sound technologies on show in the museum by testing new kinds of audible exhibits and new kinds of sound-making events at the National Science and Media Museum. The project will work with audience groups from the Museum to jointly develop new exhibits for future exhibitions. Three groups will work with creative practitioners to create innovative exhibits on topics as diverse as sound postcards (postcards that contain a record that you could play at home); the pioneering techniques of Delia Derbyshire who composed the original theme tune for the BBC television programme Doctor Who; and echo machines used in pop and rock music. Rather than create these exhibits first and ask people what they think after that, we will bring audience listeners into the beginning of the process. The exhibits made by the groups will feature alongside a new exhibition called 'The Shape of Sound' and go on to inform the development of new permanent galleries at the Museum. Curators will learn what their audiences want from sound technology collections and how they listen in gallery spaces. Audience participants will learn about the history of sound technologies and their place in museums.