Arthur Knight

Music For An Emptied Space by Arthur Knight is an audio installation piece created with the intended to be experienced in a site of cultural and historical memory, namely a museum, whereby the exhibition has been vacated or emptied from the space. From the Sound Design Concept document: 

“I’d like to envision a sound design installation that responds to the loss of cultural memory at the site of a museum’s exhibition, with its rooms bare and hollow. What interests me here is the ways sound design can inflect the absence of the curatorial display, in spaces that, by virtue of their design, are intended to create particular phenomenological and heuristic experiences with its contents. In short, how much of a memory of a museum’s historical material can be preserved by the floors, walls and ceilings designed to hold that memory. The sound design explicitly should not respond to the historical material of the museum, but instead respond to the hollow expanse and the loss of material. It ought to be determined by the spectators how much of that memory can still be affected and imagined through their interaction with the installation.”