Interview Reinhard Bek on sound in artworks, online, 4 November 2021

The interview was conducted within the research “The sound of artworks: Assessing sound in time-based media conservation”. To identify the issues at stake with sound elements in time-based works of art, prominent time- based media conservators were interviewed (Reinhard Bek of Bek & Frohnert LLC, New York; Amy Brost of the Museum of Modern Art, New York; Patricia Falcão and Jack McChonchie of Tate Modern, London; and Flaminia Fortunato of the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam. And an artist- Camilo Sandoval). Bek discusses the challenges he faces when installing artworks with sound in exhibition spaces [0:04:30.1]. He gives examples from his experience with artworks by Jean Tinguely [0:14:48.0]and discusses the use of recordings for re-installation of artworks that contain sound [0:23:45.3].