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PLAY UKRAINE MUSIC — Digital Philharmonic

Showing a sound that exists in no recording

Showing a sound that exists in no recording

Instead of a reconstructed soundtrack, the hall offers silence and printed descriptions.

The temptation to make a soundtrack existed and was deliberately refused. No recordings survive; any "reconstruction of the sound" would be invention presented as evidence. Instead the hall offers printed descriptions — contemporaries' accounts of what was heard and how. Reading takes longer than listening, and the museum admits it. But what is read remains someone else's testimony, not our invention.

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