Silence, Sound and Noise : The Echo from Moderna Museet in Two Contexts, Now and Then

The thesis proposes the use of listening as a method of unfolding material relationships between time and space. Partly as sound as a powerful stimulus, but also an ephemeral phenomenon. By analysing and describing sound recordings from Moderna Museet in two contexts, now and then, the study outlines the tension between history and memory, remembering and forgetting. The first part approaches this juxtaposition in the echo of the museum by listening to the past through archive studies. The second part analyses the sound of the present through soundwalks. The empirical material of the study strained through theories about the memory and an ambiguous subject defined by a community brings the museum’s now and then together. Through time and space and a sonic subject that can be discerned by defining a narrative of post-silence, which produces and manipulates spaces through sound. Finally, by identifying socio-cultural signs and sonic power the study proposes the act of listening towards multisensory perception