Klangfarbe Museum is a sequence of site-specific performances that respond to the acoustic qualities of the museum building and the objects displayed within it. These objects, acting like sound vessels from the past, reveal the atmosphere of daily life, for example: the sound of a plough as it struggles through the mud; fish caught and stunned under the ice; a shepherds horn; a cowbell; a hoe as it breaks hard soil.
The project has developed through collaboration between visual artist Julie Myers and musicians Natalia Kasperczyk (baroque cello), Paweł Nowicki (percussion) and Simon Rose (baritone saxophone). Their live performances are soundscapes that offer a contemporary interpretation of the museum and its archive.
artist: Julie Myers
project curator: Lucyna Kolendo
exhibition curators: Anna Ratajczak-Krajka, Krystyna Weiher-Sitkiewicz and Waldemar Elwart
video documentation: Marcin Zdziuch / Themontaż
photos: Bogna Kociumbas
Developed within the frames of the “Primal Sounds” exhibition. Commissioned by the Department of Ethnography of the National Museum in Gdańsk, Poland.
May 2019