SOUND ART MUSEUM

an exhibition space dedicated to sound and vision
a collection of sound-projects by artists
a mobile archive
http://www.radioartemobile.it
http://www.soundartmuseum.net

The sound invades the scene of art and the artists' practice, triggering original, fascinating and, sometimes unforeseen, combinations. A new collective and international sensitiveness is seeking to gather and convey the reasons of these harmonies and these dissonances.

The Sound Art Museum will operate on several different levels:

1. Permanent archive of audio works

Artists who work or have worked with sound are invited to submit their material (on cd, dvd, vinyl or audiocassette) to the archive. The archive will be open to the public and constantly updated with new contributions. A database containing information about the pieces and the authors will also be available.

2. Internet archive

The audio works will be methodically transferred to the website www.radioartemobile.it .

3. Travelling Archive (in cooperation with Nomads & Residents)

A series of appointments in istitutional locations all over the world is scheduled, where the archived materials will be available for public use.

4. Installations

RAM¹s headquarter in Rome, given its spatial characteristics, offer a variety of possibilities for different listening modalities. Through installing pieces by artists who work with sound, as well as context-specific projects, we want to explore the relation between architectural space, conceptual aspects of sound art, technological possibilities and visual art.

The curators of the Sound Art Museum are Lorenzo Benedetti, free lance curator, Riccardo Giagni, composer and musicologist, and Cesare Pietroiusti, visual artist.

The presentation of the Sound Art Museum, of its archive and of the first in a series of on-site installations, is scheduled for February 26th 2005.


Radio Arte Mobile, located in via Conte Verde 15 in Rome, will open its doors to the public on occasion of the inaugural exhibition INAUDITA of the Sound Art Museum.

Installations by Acconci Studio, Markus Huemer, Donatella Landi, Stephen Vitiello and Achim Wollscheid, will be presented together with artworks of Mario Airo, Massimo Bartolini, Bruna Esposito, Vettor Pisani, Michelangelo Pistoletto, Annie Ratti, Gert Robijns.

It will be displayed a selection of sound art from the Archive of the Sound Art Museum, which has already filed more than 350 international and national audio works.

In collaboration with Nomads & Residents a series of appointments in istitutional locations all over the world is scheduled, where the archived materials will be available for public use.

The curators of the Sound Art Museum are Lorenzo Benedetti free lance curator, Riccardo Giagni composer and musicologist, and Cesare Pietroiusti visual artist.

The Sound Art Museum archive is a work in progress, all artists who have worked or are working with sound are always invited to send the an artwork on audio CD DVD or on a vinyl record. Please contact the following address


The Sound Art Museum is an initiative promoted by Zerynthia and RadioArteMobile (RAM), one of the first internet radio stations to discuss the field in between the so called visual arts and sound research.


via Conte Verde n.15/ 4a, 00185 Rome, t. +39 06 49382579/ +39 06 4940893 http://www.radioartemobile.it
http://www.soundartmuseum.net
info@soundartmuseum.net