Audio Tour: The 4′33″ Museum

by John Kannenberg

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Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality downloads of A Sound Map of the Enlightenment Galleries at the British Museum, Son of Stretching Exercises, Audio Tour: The 4′33″ Museum, Stretching Exercises, Collections: UMMA, A Canticle for Leibowitz (Director's Cut), Four Painters, Gelidus, and 6 more. , and , .

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1.	Vol. I: Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 24 February 2010 04:33	buy track
2.	Vol. I: Motown Museum, Detroit, Michigan, United States, 3 November 2009 04:33	buy track
3.	Vol. I: San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, United States, 1 July 2008 04:33	buy track
4.	Vol. I: Internet Archive Backup Server, Bibliotheca Alexandrina, Alexandria, Egypt, 10 May 2010 04:33	buy track
5.	Vol. I: Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States, 16 May 2009 04:33	buy track
6.	Vol. I: Tate Modern, London, England, United Kingdom, 19 March 2005 04:33	buy track
7.	Vol. I: Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States, 1 September 2008 04:33	buy track
8.	Vol. I: Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 24 February 2010 04:33	buy track
9.	Vol. I: Mit Rahina Open Air Museum, Memphis, Egypt, 4 May 2010 04:33	buy track
10.	Vol. I: Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, 1 August 2009 04:33	buy track
11.	Vol. I: Rock & Roll Hall of Fame and Museum, Cleveland, Ohio, United States, 3 July 2010 04:33	buy track
12.	Vol. II: Pinball Hall of Fame & Players Museum, Las Vegas, Nevada, United States, 28 February 2011 04:33	buy track
13.	Vol. II: Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 28 April 2011 04:33	buy track
14.	Vol. II: Musée d’Orsay, Paris, France, 26 September 2012 04:33	buy track
15.	Vol. II: Museum Brandhorst, Munich, Germany, 20 October 2012 04:33	buy track
16.	Vol. II: Museum Tinguely, Basel, Switzerland, 24 August 2012 04:33	buy track
17.	Vol. II: Glyptothek, Munich, Germany, 20 October 2012 04:33	buy track
18.	Vol. II: ZKM Medienmuseum, Karlsruhe, Germany, 28 October 2012 04:33	buy track
19.	Vol. II: Louvre, Paris, France, 27 September 2012 04:33	buy track
20.	Vol. II: Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich, Germany, 21 October 2012 04:33	buy track
21.	Vol. II: Acropolis Museum, Athens, Greece, 1 October 2011 04:33	buy track
22.	Vol. II: Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York, United States, 30 July 2012 04:33	buy track
23.	Vol. II: Neue Staatsgalerie, Stuttgart, Germany, 13 October 2012 04:33	buy track
24.	Vol. III: Handel and Hendrix, London, England, United Kingdom, 3 November 2015 04:33	buy track
25.	Vol. III: Musei Vaticani, Vatican City, Rome, Italy, 10 April 2017 04:33	buy track
26.	Vol. III: Abraham Lincoln Museum, Springfield, Illinois, United States, 23 August 2007 04:33	buy track
27.	Vol. III: Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford University, United Kingdom, 8 September 2015 04:33	buy track
28.	Vol. III: Museo Archeologico Nazionale, Venice, Italy, 18 November 2015 04:33	buy track
29.	Vol. III: Alte Pinakothek, Munich, Germany, 20 October 2012 04:33	buy track
30.	Vol. III: Neon Muzeum, Warsaw, Poland, 8 May 2017 04:33	buy track
31.	Vol. III: Sherlock Holmes Museum, London, England, United Kingdom, 25 November 2013 04:33	buy track
32.	Vol. III: Kvindemuseet i Danmark (Women's Museum of Denmark), Aarhus, Denmark, 31 May 2016 04:33	buy track
33.	Vol. III: Expo Chicago, Navy Pier, Chicago, Illinois, United States, 22 September 2013 04:33	buy track
34.	Vol. III: MAAT Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal, 8 May 2017 04:33	buy track
35.	Vol. III: The Pantheon, Rome, Italy, 12 April 2017 04:33	buy track
36.	Vol. III: Museum of Broken Relationships, Zagreb, Croatia, 25 September 2015 04:33	buy track
37.	Vol. IV: Hayward Gallery, London, England, United Kingdom, 29 November 2013 04:33	buy track
38.	Vol. IV: Warsaw Rising Museum, Warsaw, Poland, 7 May 2017 04:33	buy track
39.	Vol. IV: Centrale Montemartini, Rome, Italy, 13 April 2017 04:33	buy track
40.	Vol. IV: Detroit Institute of Art, Detroit, Michigan, United States, 17 October 2009 04:33	buy track
41.	Vol. IV: Museum of the History of Science, Oxford University, United Kingdom, 28 November 2013 04:33	buy track
42.	Vol. IV: Museo Correr, Venice, Italy, 14 November 2015 04:33	buy track
43.	Vol. IV: Muzeum Fryderyka Chopina, Warsaw, Poland, 8 May 2017 04:33	buy track
44.	Vol. IV: German Apotheke Museum, Heidelberg, Germany, 26 August 2012 04:33	buy track
45.	Vol. IV: National Atomic Testing Museum, Las Vegas, Nevada, United States, 2 March 2011 04:33	buy track
46.	Vol. IV: Kew Gardens, London, England, United Kingdom, 27 March 2014 04:33	buy track
47.	Vol. IV: Venice Biennale (Indonesian Pavilion), Venice, Italy, 17 November 2015 04:33	buy track
48.	Vol. IV: Museu da Eletricidade, Lisbon, Portugal, 4 May 2016 04:33	buy track
49.	Vol. IV: Sistine Chapel, Vatican City, Rome, Italy, 16 April 2017 04:33	buy track
50.	Vol. IV: Ashmolean Museum, Oxford University, United Kingdom, 8 September 2015 04:33	buy track

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AUDIO TOUR: THE 4′33″ MUSEUM - STANDARD EDITION

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NOTE: A Collector's Edition printed book (includes free audio download code, so buy the book and get the audio free!) available from Blurb:

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15 countries, 27 cities, 50 museums – and 3 hours, 47 minutes, and 30 seconds of listening.

This box set-sized album is divided into four volumes, altogether containing 50 unmanipulated, four minute and thirty three seconds long field recordings of museums. In the same way that composer John Cage's famous 'silent work' 4′33″ put a conceptual frame around the act of listening, these recordings put a conceptual frame around the act of listening to places that put frames around art and objects of culture.

I've been making recordings of this length in museums for a decade now, and this collection presents fifty of my favourite recordings so far. Like a museum, the 'objects' on display here are placed in specific proximity to each other – a sort of cross between an exhibition and a mixtape.

The notes in the accompanying 75-page full-colour book (a printed version of which is available with the Collector's Edition) tell the stories of what happened to me while making these recordings, and also tell you a bit about each museum that I recorded. The book also includes an essay about collecting and listening, a brief interlude of a handful of sound-producing objects I've documented in museums over the years, and an index of the museums recorded.

These recordings represent a practice of contradiction: a series of performative nonperformances, visual experiences in sonic form. I hope you find them interesting in a way that means something to you. As much as museums are about independent learning, they’re also about finding out who we are as people within our cultural surroundings, and I think we’ve all got our own place to find within the culture of sound. Listening to museums seems, to me at least, to be a great place to start.

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released August 26, 2017

BOX SET CREDITS

This four-volume box set contains 50 field recordings, each four minutes and thirty three seconds long, made by John Kannenberg in different museums throughout the world using (mostly) an Olympus LS-10 compact digital recorder.

Volumes 1 and 2 of these recordings were originally released in mp3 format only by the Stasisfield netlabel, catalogue numbers SF-8003 (2010) and SF-11002 (2013): stasisfield.com

Volume 3, Track 11 was originally heard on 1 Electronic Sound For 5 Minutes, Episode 33, a podcast of experimental sound curated by Neil Jendon: stitcher.com/podcast/one-electronic-sound-for-five-minutes

Released by Museum of Portable Sound Press: museumofportablesound.com

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Published in London, UK by Museum of Portable Sound Press, SE6 4JW • Printed by Blurb • Typeset in Trajan Pro and Univers using Adobe InDesign • Design, Layout, and Photography by John Kannenberg unless otherwise noted • Editing & Proofreading by Annie Jamieson, Robert Weis, and Lara Torres • Written by John Kannenberg

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