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KlingKlang – sounds from media history

The German Museum of Books and Writing and the German Music Archive offer an unusual “insight” into its collection. With a series titled “KlingKlang – sounds from media history” they open its treasury for our ears with 31 video clips in which listeners will be required to guess what they are hearing.

Whether the scratching of a quill on parchment or the sound of a 3D printer, a phonograph, a cylinder printing press, a Gameboy or the chirping of an inkjet printer. KlingKlang ringed in the year 2021 with a whole array of sounds from media history. Every day in January, there was an acoustic surprise from 5,000 years of media history.

The German Museum of Books and Writing and the German Music Archive give the DNB’s media history collection a voice by playing many of its sounds. The items that usually stand silent in the exhibitions and stacks will be making themselves heard outside the building: “Silent Night” will be followed by the clatter of the printing machines and the whispering of media.

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Content

  1. Lessons learned at the museum – the digital programme of the German Museum of Books and Writing
  2. Digital access to the St. Elizabeth manuscript
  3. Unique image sources for front-line book shops
  4. KI-Box
  5. Information – a raw material? Data fuelling station at the German Museum of Books and Writing
  6. Books in the third dimension - Museum acquires a collection of kinetic books
  7. KlingKlang – sounds from media history
  8. Book bags – The collection of publisher Mark Lehmstedt
  9. A family of bookbinders in Germany and Europe – additions to the Röllig estate
  10. Pre-mortem legacy from Hans Ticha
  11. Open! Stories from the German Museum of Books and Writing
  12. 75 years on... digitisation project “Digital Historic Book Collection”

Last changes: 22.04.2021
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