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John Kannenberg is an artist, researcher, teacher, performer, storyteller, and writer.
He is also Director & Chief Curator of The Museum of Portable Sound.

Why Listen to Museums? at The National Gallery

Why Listen to Museums? at The National Gallery

Why Listen to Museums? is a talk I gave at the National Gallery in London on 4 September 2015. It discusses the sonic experience of museums, psithurism, making sound maps, listening to narrative paintings, goofing off in Tate Modern, and what to do when confronted by soldiers with rifles while trying to sneak an audio recorder into the Egyptian Museum in Cairo. 

Read this essay on my blog, Phonomnesis

Listen to this talk on SoundCloud

Published in Uniformagazine No.6, 2016

Echoes of an Exhibition

Echoes of an Exhibition

Performing Fluxus scores at White Cube, London

Performing Fluxus scores at White Cube, London