A cabinet of
curiosities, for sound.
Noise Cabinet is a forward-leaning concert series created for listeners with openness and curiosity.
The name Noise Cabinet takes its inspiration from 16th-century curiosity cabinets.
Originally the term meant a room for collecting and showcasing rarities — a shark's tooth or a hawk's claw, foreign plants or portraits. Each was a reflection of its curator: it mattered less that a collection was scientifically true than that it carried a sense of the curious, the marvelous, and the mystical.
Noise Cabinet borrows that spirit for music. Each program opens a drawer onto a different corner of sound — from solo works and chamber music to free improvisation and electro-acoustics — set among the paintings at Capitol Modern, where the room itself becomes part of the listening. It's built for the curious: a place to encounter work that doesn't sit neatly in a box, in the company of others glad it doesn't.
To inspire curiosity through sound.
One program at a time, in the galleries of Capitol Modern.
