Immersive Shtetl

Site Moscow, Russia
Year 2012
For
Jewish Museum and Tolerance Center
With RAA
Type exhibit
Goal engage
Scope $

Wanting to illustrate the vibrancy of a Russian shtetl in its heyday, Robert Appelbaum and Associates built a life-sized recreation of a 19th-Century marketplace. Exhibit designers wanted the exhibit audio to enforce a sense of realism and scale.

MorrowSound delivered a carefully researched audio collage that recreated spatial feeling of the marketplace. Carts are heard rolling across cobblestones, market-goers chatter and wander between stalls, and a vendor calls in Yiddish, "Salt pickles! Apples! Cherries!” MorrowSound also stitched historical recordings, music, and found-sound to sonify an interactive timeline of Jewish migrations.

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