Lichtklangphonogramm

an exhibition of historical and re-invented optical and mechanical sound machines from the era of the wax cylinder phonograph

by Melissa Cruz Garcia, Aleksander Kolkowski, Matteo Marangoni and Anne Wellmer

from march 14th until may 25th 2013

Ethnologisches Museum

Lansstrasse 8, Dahlem, Berlin

Finissage performance: 26/5/2013, 16-17h

 

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How to visualize sound and music in the context of the Berliner Phonogramm-Archiv?

"Lichtklangphonogramm" is an exhibition of historical and re-invented optical and mechanical sound machines from the era of the wax cylinder phonograph which embarks upon a travel through time from the moment when the first sound recording machines were invented in combination to the archeology of moving images of the 19th century and backwards.

Listening stations, projecting phonoscopes, episcopes, mutoscopes, mechanoscopes among others are self-made machines exhibited in order to create a landscape of light and sound relating to cultural anthropology and heritage.