In the hushed silence of our everyday actions, largely dominated by the digital revolution – a finger swiping across a screen, or a card tapping a card reader - there are some objects that are starting to fall quiet. For Laurence Humier, a Walloon designer with a multi-disciplinary background, “the timbre is a unique acoustic signature that we can attribute to a specific voice, gesture or object.”
Le Timbre des Objets (The Timbre of Objects), supported by the Irène Heidebroek and Eliane van Duyse Fund and managed by the King Baudouin Foundation, focuses on the sound of objects that are starting to disappear, and are recognised as part of intangible cultural heritage by UNESCO.
This project highlights a uniquely Walloon approach. which is “human-centric and resolutely oriented towards the future of cultural institutions, both physical and virtual.”
The project has been organised in collaboration with the Musical Instruments Museum along with the Belgian Comic Art Museum, both based in Brussels. It involves inclusive workshops bringing together sighted and visually impaired audiences, musicians and illustrators. Together, they explore the ergonomics of the invisible and its prominence in museum design.
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