Mini-workshop: Musical and sound heritage in research and dissemination

How do we experience sounds from the past in the present? Five experts will share their perspectives and recent experiences in the field. We hope to stimulate fruitful conversations, new ideas and inspiration for future projects. Open for all interested!

Time and place: –, Lecture Hall, Historical Museum

Tuesday the 6th of August we invite you to a mini-workshop at the Museum of Cultural History to discuss the presentation and perception of musical and sound heritage in research and dissemination.

Program

  • 10:00–10:10: Coffee and welcome in the Lecture Hall, 3rd floor at the Historical Museum
  • 10:10–10:50: Exhibiting the Archaeoacoustic Research Results of Medieval Sacred Sites by Zorana Đorđević
  • 10:55–11:25: Musical heritage by Tejaswinee Kelkar (partly in the exhibition HERITAGE – Our place in history)
  • 11:25–12:00: Grab a snack (on your own budget)
  • 12:00–12:30: Sound in medieval texts: recent research trends and approaches, by Stefka G. Eriksen
  • 12:30–13:00: The sounds of a medieval thing and other things by Martin Hager-Saltnes (partly in the exhibition NOREGR – Medieval Stories)
  • 13:00–13:30: Experiences with use of sounds in exhibitions. Thoughts on how to reconstruct historical sounds by Bjarne Kvinnsland
  • 13:30–14:00: Summing-up: questions and comments

Please register here if you want to participate:

Register for the event

You can also send an e-mail to Associate Professor Karoline Kjesrud at the Museum of Cultural History.

About our speakers

Zorona Đorđević is a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) postdoctoral fellow at the University of Barcelona, Spain, and a guest researcher at KHM in August, studying the historical interplay between sound and sacred sites in medieval Europe. 

Tejaswinee Kelkar is Associate Professor at the Department of Musicology, a professional singer, and the producer of the sound installation and three podcasts in the HERITAGE exhibition, Historical Museum. Her research interests center around musical embodiment and technology. 

Stefka G. Eriksen is Associate Professor in Medieval Studies at the Department of Linguistics and Scandinavian Studies and is studying literature as sources to mentalities of the past, currently studying the presentation of sound in medieval texts and how sound is part of textual studies.

Martin Hager-Saltnes is Lecturer at Historical Museum and is involved in all parts of exhibition making at the museum, from planning to dissemination. He has developed the sound installation in the medieval exhibition NOREGR – Medieval Stories at the Historical Museum.    

Bjarne Kvinnsland is an artist, composer, musician, and producer with extensive experience with music, sound and new technologies.

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