Sonic Landscape

Music is often written about for how it sounds because that single characteristic is its most defining feature. But the majority of music in history is lost to time. Never recorded and hardly written down, how do we write about this kind of music?

It is well documented that our neighbors to the east in Kentucky and to the south in Nashville, TN, have revered and defined musical traditions all their own. From talking with our friends in Southcentral Kentucky, we have learned that music is extremely prevalent and important to the people of this region as well. Southcentral Kentucky has a unique musical culture whose reverberations can be heard across local, national, and global planes. 

Visit the Online Exhibit

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Donate Artifacts

Are you a collector of South-Central Kentucky's music history?

We are seeking artifacts, photographs, posters, documents, and other items related to musicians, venues, radio stations, and the general music scene of Warren, Barren, Allen, Simpson, Butler, Edmondson, Hart, and Metcalfe counties between the 1940s and 2010s. 

Submit Your Donation

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Support the Exhibit

Various sponsorship levels are available, from $1 to $10,000+. Like the exhibit's scope, creating Sonic Landscape is a community effort. Sponsorship levels are:

Platinum ($10,000 or more)

• Named mention on all television and radio advertisements.
• Invitation for four guests to attend exhibition sponsor preview party.
• Opportunity for a small, private, curator-led tour of the exhibition for up to six guests (after exhibition opening).
• Highlighted social media post recognizing your contribution, during opening month.
• Invitation for two guests to attend exhibition sponsor preview party.
• Logo or name recognition in all exhibition ads (print, digital, graphics and publications).
• Logo or name recognition on exhibition credits wall.

Examples of support: LED Lighting upgrades for the gallery to protect artifacts on display ($13,000) or printing of labels and vinyls ($10,000).

 

Diamond ($5,000 to $9,999)

• Highlighted social media post recognizing your contribution, during opening month.
• Invitation for two guests to attend exhibition sponsor preview party.
• Logo or name recognition in all exhibition ads (print, digital, graphics and publications).
• Logo or name recognition on exhibition credits wall.
• Logo or name recognition on exhibition website.

Examples of support: Murals created by local artists ($6,000) or acoustical panel supplies and materials ($7,500 per section).

 

Gold ($1,000 to $4,999)

• Logo or name recognition in all exhibition ads (print, digital, graphics and publications).
• Logo or name recognition on exhibition credits wall.
• Logo or name recognition on exhibition website.

Examples of support: Replicas of venues or a DIY recording studio ($4,000) or one Holosonic Audio Spotlight ($2,000).

 

Patron ($1 to $999)

• Logo or name recognition on exhibition credits wall.
• Logo or name recognition on exhibition website.

Examples of support: One wall-mounted television unit ($750) or the K-12 traveling trunk ($500).

 

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