TY - JOUR

T1 - Invisible Music

T2 - Hearing and Listening in the Early Modern World

AU - Jeanneret, Christine

PY - 2022

Y1 - 2022

N2 - At Rosenborg Castle in Copenhagen, Christian IV used two of his favouriteartforms, music and architecture, to create his invisible music, a sonictechnology that left his visitors astonished. This surprising listeningexperience gives historians and sensory and performance studies scholars theperfect tool to study early modern hearing and listening practices. Thedissociation of sound from its source was experienced as a marvellous soundtechnology. The diffusion of music through sonic vents in the castle created aspatialization of music that required the perambulation of the listeners,creating a full bodily experience. The staging and performativity of thisextraordinary listening experience also brings new insights into court andprivacy studies.

AB - At Rosenborg Castle in Copenhagen, Christian IV used two of his favouriteartforms, music and architecture, to create his invisible music, a sonictechnology that left his visitors astonished. This surprising listeningexperience gives historians and sensory and performance studies scholars theperfect tool to study early modern hearing and listening practices. Thedissociation of sound from its source was experienced as a marvellous soundtechnology. The diffusion of music through sonic vents in the castle created aspatialization of music that required the perambulation of the listeners,creating a full bodily experience. The staging and performativity of thisextraordinary listening experience also brings new insights into court andprivacy studies.

M3 - Journal article

VL - 18

SP - 221

EP - 234

JO - Nordic Journal of Renaissance Studies

JF - Nordic Journal of Renaissance Studies

SN - 2597-0143

ER -