Music For Museums

'Music For Museums’ took its lead from ‘music for shopping malls’ to produce a soundtrack for museums using the history of the muzak corporation, with the same musicians as well as the two UK based Isambard Khroustaliov and ISAN; background music was developed for a specific range of functional areas within gallery and museum spaces. The piece questions contemporary exhibition environments’ default position of ‘neutrality’, and reconsiders them as places of production; it addresses the existing cultural and commercial typologies of the museum to stimulate critical engagement with ‘functional music’.