Beijing Sound Museum

the beijing sound museum is a long-term cultural heritage project based currently at the shijia hutong museum in beijing. the project aims to recreate the history of beijing from the 1930s to the present day using sound. for this to be possible, a long term and painstaking process in under way to recreate an almost infinite array of sounds that have either disappeared or are in a state of constant flux. street hawkers’ chanting, whistling pigeons, evolving transport technology, changing street language, revolutionary music, mass mobilisation, bands of red guards, radio propaganda, pop songs – all these sounds and many more are being recreated with the guidance of historians, residents, folk artists, collectors, museums, technicians, and theatre companies.