{"id":457,"date":"2009-03-15T02:20:00","date_gmt":"2009-03-15T00:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thejoycollective.co.uk\/blog\/?p=457"},"modified":"2009-06-11T01:01:45","modified_gmt":"2009-06-10T23:01:45","slug":"bands-muse-over-museum-collections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jonnyjaniero.com\/thejoycollective\/announcements\/bands-muse-over-museum-collections\/","title":{"rendered":"Bands muse over Museum collections"},"content":{"rendered":"

RESPOND! Bands muse over Museum collections.<\/span><\/p>\n

New music to help Museum visitors fully enjoy their experience.
From Charlie Franics to The Victorian English Gentlemen\u2019s Club, Dan Amor and Lily Green, Amgueddfa Cymru \u2013 National Museum Wales is inspiring some of the country\u2019s best indie bands through an innovative new project, RESPOND.<\/p>\n

As part of the Museum\u2019s Music 09 programme, RESPOND will involve artists and curators working together, across Amgueddfa Cymru \u2013 National Museum Wales\u2019 seven sites, to produce a musical response to the nation\u2019s collections.<\/p>\n

The tracks \u2013 21in all – will be available to download free from the Museum\u2019s website \u2013 www.museumwales.ac.uk<\/a> \u2013 at various points throughout the year. Two were launched in time for St David\u2019s Day: Trysor Glas by Dan Amor and Charlie Francis\u2019 Audere est Facere.
Charlie Francis who\u2019s a well-recognised music producer, especially amongst indie bands, took this opportunity to translate the history of the Romans in Britain into musical form. Charlie has worked with artists such as REM, Robyn Hitchcock and many more. RESPOND has given him the chance to create his own work:
\u201cI used to play in bands myself but have for some years worked mostly on other people\u2019s music,\u201d said Charlie Francis. \u201cI was looking for a fun project to work on myself and coming from York \u2013 a Roman town \u2013 I was naturally interested in the National Roman Legion Museum and its collections.
\u201cThe purpose of my track \u2013 which is loosely based on one Miles Davies chord \u2013 is to accompany the National Roman Legion Museum experience.\u201d
\u201cThis is not a one-off,\u201d said Michael Tooby, Director of Learning and Programmes at Amgueddfa Cymru \u2013 National Museum Wales. \u201cThe Museum\u2019s increasing involvement in the creation of contemporary culture proves that we\u2019re not just interested in the past but also the present and the future. We hope other aspiring musicians will follow suit and continue to use our museums as a source of inspiration.
\u201cWe hope the project will encourage people to visit our museums and explore the collections that have inspired the artists. We\u2019re also hoping it will inspire people to respond to the music by posting reviews online.\u201d<\/p>\n

A recent survey has highlighted that Museums are generally not considered as places to go for a casual and relaxing visit. Amgueddfa Cymru \u2013 National Museum Wales hopes the launch of this project will be the first of many engaging projects that will broaden the appeal of the collections and the museums as social spaces.
Admission to Amgueddfa Cymru \u2013 National Museum Wales sites is free thanks to the support of the Welsh Assembly Government.
Amgueddfa Cymru operates seven national museums across Wales. These are National Museum Cardiff, St Fagans: National History Museum, the National Roman Legion Museum, Caerleon, Big Pit: National Coal Museum, Blaenafon, the National Wool Museum, Dre-fach Felindre, the National Slate Museum, Llanberis and the National Waterfront Museum, Swansea.<\/p>\n

For further information, please contact Catrin Mears, Communications Officer, on (029) 2057 3185 \/ 07920 027067<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

RESPOND! Bands muse over Museum collections. New music to help Museum visitors fully enjoy their experience.From Charlie Franics to The Victorian English Gentlemen\u2019s Club, Dan Amor and Lily Green, Amgueddfa Cymru \u2013 National Museum Wales is inspiring some of the country\u2019s best indie bands through an innovative new project, RESPOND. As part of the Museum\u2019s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[460],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-457","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-announcements"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonnyjaniero.com\/thejoycollective\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/457","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonnyjaniero.com\/thejoycollective\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonnyjaniero.com\/thejoycollective\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonnyjaniero.com\/thejoycollective\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonnyjaniero.com\/thejoycollective\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=457"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jonnyjaniero.com\/thejoycollective\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/457\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonnyjaniero.com\/thejoycollective\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonnyjaniero.com\/thejoycollective\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonnyjaniero.com\/thejoycollective\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}