One might trace the rise of the sound cinema back to the so-called war on attention we keep hearing about. While tech companies fine-tune their tools for keeping us hooked on dopamine highs, universities remove long classical texts from their syllabi. No one can concentrate on anything anymore, and the counter-movement becomes these small communities where people gather in darkness to surrender to a record, stripped of the possibility of doing anything but precisely that.

Already in the 1980s and 90s, back when we were still optimistic about technology, the Finnish producer and sound artist Mika Vainio (1963–2017) was doing something similar. In his Oslo apartment, he held listening sessions for friends and would reportedly become deeply irritated if anyone did anything other than listen in concentrated silence.

It is therefore logical that Charlottenborg has set up a sound cinema to honour Vainio through six playlists under the slightly bombastic title Museum of Sound. If you want to hear everything, you must set aside roughly 7.5 hours, which is surely more than most can manage. The project is instead designed for you to drift in at a random moment and linger in the dark for as long as you allow yourself to be caught.