Auditorium Mundi soundscape in the narration of the world. Artistic and scientific aspects in the presentation of soundscapes

Abstract

Auditorium Mundi is a project for the exploration and presentation of sounds and soundscapes of the whole world. The aim is an installation of a museum of audible perception in interrelation with other senses. The concept of the museum is an acoustic planetarium in which the locations of the world are put in place of the stars. Also located here are world archives for sound in which the acoustic and musical multitude of this planet will be preserved. The archives of sound are available world-wide through the internet. The museum is, at the same time, a laboratory for the development of new formats in scientific definitions and the multimedia presentation of acoustic phenomenons. It is a show-place for artistic programs and an auditorium where questions from the area of acoustic as well as new developments of industry will be accessible to a wider public. A place of innovation, where concepts for other museums, promoters and scientific institutions can be developed. The leitmotif of Auditorium Mundi is the question how man influences the soundscenes in which he lives and how strongly he himself is influenced by the noise, the resonance and the dissonance between various ways of life.