Excerpt from the forthcoming hour-long interior soundscape composition "A Sound Map of the Egyptian Museum, Cairo." Sourced from eight hours of recordings made in every public room of the Egyptian Museum during May, 2010. The Egyptian Museum's identity as a vessel of history has been forever altered with the advent of the democratic revolution currently being waged throughout Egypt. Read an essay about the piece at http://johnkannenberg.com/sound/EgyptianMuseum.html


A Sound Map of the Egyptian Museum, Cairo (Excerpt)

This 3-minute teaser contains sounds recorded in May, June, and July of 2013 as source material for "A Sound Map of the Art Institute of Chicago."

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Teaser: A Sound Map of the Art Institute of Chicago

Recording of the ambience of the main space of the first floor of  Fondazione Prada's exhibition "Art or Sound," an exploration of soundmaking objects and sound art installation that was staged in Venice in 2014. 

Art or Sound exhibition, Fondazione Prada - Venice, Floor 1

Walking through the second floor of the "Art or Sound" exhibition at Venice's Fondazione Prada on 2 November 2014. Includes sounds generated by pieces by Harron Mirza, Rebecca Horn, Ruth Ewan, Martin Creed, Tarek Atoui, Subodh Gupta, Doug Aitken, Tom Sachs, Bernhard Leitner, Anri Sala, Alberto Tadiello, and Dennis Oppenheim.

Art or Sound exhibition, Fondazione Prada - Venice, Floor 2 Walkthrough

My contribution to the Swiftnoise Compilation celebrating the entry of noise music (Taylor Swift's 8 seconds of silence) into the top ten of the music charts. My track is a remix of Kanye West's interruption of Taylor's acceptance speech at the 2009 MTV VMA show.

I'm-a Let You Finish

Carl Sagan saying the word "billion" in the first episode of Cosmos, stretched to one hour.

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1 Hour Sagan Billion

While making sound recordings at Tate Modern in October 2014, I left my Olympus LS-10 recorder on the floor of the Turbine Hall beneath the massive Richard Tuttle sculpture that was on display. A group of kids discovered the recorder. This is what they said into it.

Kids discover my audio recorder in Tate Modern's Turbine Hall

A gallery talk and Q&A dealing with 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. 



Why Listen To Museums?

The sound of the water fountain outside the main entrance of the national Egyptian Museum in Cairo; what the museum campus sounded like before the protests that began with the Day of Rage on January 25, 2011. At the moment of uploading this track, the area around the Egyptian Museum has become a battleground between anti-government protesters and pro-government intimidators in the employ of the police. Dedicated to the memory of Ahmed Basiony, Egyptian sound and media artist who died on that first day of protests, a victim of police brutality.


4'33" outside the Egyptian Museum, Cairo

Multimedia artist. // Director and Chief Curator of The Museum of Portable Sound: http://museumofportablesound.com // Final album "Cordolium" available on Bandcamp: https://johnkannenberg.bandcamp.com/album/cordolium

John Kannenberg

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