SOUNDSPACE : Not Bad Muzak

Blanton Museum of Art

What do elevator music, Baby Shark, and sonic weapons have in common? They're all part of the 23rd edition of SoundSpace, our award-winning experimental music series. Using elevator music as a point of departure, the program will examine the aesthetics and implications of sounds that control: the polished sheen of call center “hold” music, the soothing tones of corporate Kmart public address cassettes in the late 1980s, the use of “Baby Shark” as a tool of interrogation and torture, and the sonic weapons experienced by diplomats in Cuba in 2017.