Sound is back in museums: music, interviews with artists and curators, people's accounts of museum objects and artworks, oral testimonies or just sounds are increasingly used as an interpretation media. The guided tour is back, but it is not anymore guided by the museum curator. Instead, it is often a collaboratively created tour, where visitors or members of the public participate actively, while curators step back and become the facilitators of this process.
In this process, podcasting has been also used. The following is from
Tate Modern***
"A production team including members of
Raw Canvas, worked together to create a sound tour of Tate Modern’s new Collection Displays. They wanted to create a different kind of audio tour as a backdrop for looking at 16 selected art works. The tour produced offers a combination of interviews, sound and music as an alternative way of looking to provoke the viewer to investigate other ways to read that artwork. MP3 files can be downloaded to your player for listening as you walk through the galleries, or you may choose to listen as you explore this website featuring images of some of the works".
Giorgio de Chirico - The Uncertainty of the Poet
Podcast (mp3): Artist Doug Fishbone inspired by Giorgio de Chirico's painting speaks on art, bananas and international trade
More Tate podcasts
here