Zuse - Computer Museum is an exhibition sound work for a projection mapping on the Z22R. Reconstructed machine sounds are combined with a contemporary score inspired by the 1960s.
OUR ROLE Sound Design // CONCEPT, PRODUCTION SCHNELLE BUNTE BILDER, AnalogNatives, Jan Bernstein // CLIENT ZCOM Zuse Computer Museum // VIDEO Robert Arnold // YEAR 2021
ZUSE - COMPUTER MUSEUM is an exhibition sound work created for the ZCOM Zuse Computer Museum in Hoyerswerda. The project centers around the Z22R, one of the museum’s key historical computing machines, and accompanies a projection mapping developed around the object.
The work combines reconstructed machine sounds with a contemporary musical composition inspired by the sonic character of the 1960s. Mechanical rhythms, operational noises and tonal material are arranged into a composed audiovisual layer that supports the presentation of the computer within the exhibition context.
Sound operates here as an interpretive layer between technological history and contemporary perception. The reconstructed sounds preserve a connection to the physical machine while the composed score frames the Z22R as part of a broader cultural and aesthetic moment in the history of computing.
We developed the sound design for the project in collaboration with SCHNELLE BUNTE BILDER, AnalogNatives and Jan Bernstein.
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