Röhsska museet

Röhsska Museet in Gothenburg is Sweden's primary museum for fashion, design and crafts. The East Asian collections are housed in four halls showing objects from China, Japan and Korea, and in 2012 the museum commissioned Audotechure to create audio backdrops for the entire collection. The  sound designs should coexist and heighten the visitors experience of the objects as well as be included as design objects in the museum's permanent collection.

     Added to this was a wish for Audiotechture to eliminate a pretty pregnant hum from the air condition in the museum halls at the same time.

     The solution? The self-noise in each room was recorded and then used as the foundation for the sound designs, adding sounds to two of them and for the remaining two just sculpting textures out of the original recordings.

Room 1 Bronze drone

This sound was based on bronze, as a reflection of the exhibited objects and the pure weight of the material, and this led to a slowly enveloping heavy sound that included chimes down transposed several octaves.

Room 2 Breathing time

The room's own noise went through various processes that turned into a slow stream of expiration-like sounds in attempt to depict time and also hinting at meditation, although not the method, but the goals.

Room 3 Friction

This room's own sound was processed in several layers to highlight different frequencies and patterns of movement. These gradual shifts between the layers creates a sense of change in the room's volume.

Room 4 Mask Games

The fourth room became a play with identities. Different sounds switch roles hiding behind each other, and not only in details, the entire composition is an illusion. The sounds in the room may momentarily sound like music, but it is not, it just pictures the sound of music.