The "opening act "for the German Ivory Museum is the Blackbox, a 60 sq m immersive media room where visitors experience an 8-minute audiovisual installation. The visitor is invited to explore the piece's structure by wandering through the installation and re-contextualizing its meaning. Spatial sound design, voice-over, and music complement the visual content as a further associative layer. THE SOUND OF THE MOUNTAIN executed the technical planning of the 16.2 channel sound system and its installation, and MNTN was used for mixing the spatial audio content. 

With the German Ivory Museum's reopening in the Castle Erbach/Odenwald, ivory-related art has reconnected with its roots: It was here, back in the late 18th century, that Count Franz I. of Erbach (1754 – 1823) first popularized the art of ivory carving. Unlike the standard historical museum practices, the media space does not offer passive infotainment and a rehash of the count's life and deeds but instead places the historical facts into a larger thematic and temporal context and generates links to contemporary social issues.

Client: m box
Spatial audio mix: TAUCHER
Institution: German Ivory Museum

© Image credits: m box, TAUCHER