Funny Andy should mention this,this annoyance with pilfering sounds that
distract from the objects...
My director and I were just discussing this yesterday. I was suggesting
including videos in yet another exhibition, and she detoured me by saying
she has become increasingly put of by video *within* the exhibition space,
as opposed to a separate area.
Of course, we have no such animal as a secluded viewing room...

Barbra Brady
Curator, Art Museum of Missoula

On Thu, 10 Oct 1996, Andy Finch wrote:

> I recently went to a very new, very big, very expensive, very
> state-of-the-art museum and was practically driven out of my mind by the
> incessant and *conflicting*!!! sounds.  Instrumental music, song, and
> narration assaulted the ears from every direction.  It was impossible to
> concentrate on artifacts and labels when sounds coming from both ahead of
> me and behind me were clashing with sounds from directly above.  I
> left the place with a major headache.
>
> P.S.  I love music, I really do.
>
> Andy Finch
> [log in to unmask]
> AAM Government Affairs
> usual disclaimers apply
>