The exhibition “The European Acoustic Heritage” was designed in the framework of the European research program European Acoustic Heritage, of the “Culture” program of the European Union, aiming at discovering and enhancing the soundscapes of Europe. In this program participated the following institutions: the escoitar collective from Spain, the French research center CRESSON, the School of Architetcure of Grenoble, France, the audiovisual archive Phonogrammarchiv of Austria, the Academy of Applied Science of Vienna, Austria, the Applied Science University of Tampere, Finland, the center of cultural industries AGADIC, Spain.

The European Acoustic Heritage exhibition aimed to show some aspect related with the research carried out during the last two years. Through different sound installations it covers both general issues about european acoustic memory as more specific subjects linked with the water soundscapes case study. It has been designed as a traveling and growing exhibition, a work in progress integrating specific projects developed by each partner and it has been itinerated in Tampere, Grenoble, Brussels, Volos and Santiago de Compostela.

The exhibition includes the following interactive installations:

1. An European soundscapes cartography providing access to over 1,200 sounds from different sound maps already available online.
2. A display featuring a selection of interviews conducted in the course of the research about everyday soundscapes and acoustic heritage
3. A thematic water map where you can listen sounds as drops, oceans, fountains, storms, rain, swimming pools…
4. An interactive listening spatial system (4.1) allowing to play with space position and remix some particular compositions from the water sound contest which took place during the summer of 2012.

Sounds are pert of our everyday life. We hear them, we listen to them and we produce them continuously. They are closely related to our language, our culture and our environment and they define every day parts of our immaterial heritage. This exhibition aims at investigating this heritage at European level through several interactive installations.

Come, listen and play!

Organisation:
Museum, Archive and Libraries Direction of Volos Municipality
Laboratory Environmental Communication and Audiovisual Documentation (L.E.C.A.D.)
Department of Architecture (TAM) of the University of Thessaly

Coordination:
Nicola Remy (TAM), Horacio Dieguez Gonzalez (Εscoitar)

Technical Support:
Nikos Vamvakas (LECAD)

The exhibition continues to your own space, as you can visit the entire exhibition content at http://www.europeanacousticheritage.eu

For further information see the poster and the invitation of the Museum, Archive and Libraries Direction of Volos Municipality

http://europeanacousticheritage.eu/2013/04/eah-exhibition-in-volos-greece/