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TEMPORARY EXHIBITION

 

Opening hours

Monday: closed (Also closed on the first Tuesday of every month)

Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Saturday, Sunday: 10:15-17:45  Closing time and last entry to the exhibition: 16:15

Friday: 10:15-19:45 Closing time and last entry to the exhibition: 17:45

The temporary exhibition is open until 29 of october 2023.

 

Ticket prices 

 

Full price ticket HUF 3200

50% discount (student/pensioner) HUF 1600

children (1-6 years) HUF 1200

Discounted 500 HUF tickets are available for:

- holders of a teacher's card

- ICOM and ICOMOS members

- guides (minimum group size 10 persons)

- for ICOM and ICOM members with a Pulszky card

Please start your visit in the time slot you have purchased.

PERMANENT EXHIBITION

 

OPENING HOURS

Monday: closed (Also closed on the first Tuesday of every month)

Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Saturday, Sunday: 10:15-17:45  Closing time and last entry to the exhibition: 16:15

Friday: 10:15-19:45 Closing time and last entry to the exhibition: 17:45

 

Ticket prices 

(from September 01, 2023)

Full price ticket HUF 3900

50% discount (student/pensioner) HUF 1950

children (1-6 years) HUF 1200

Discounted 500 HUF tickets are available for:

- holders of a teacher's card

- ICOM and ICOMOS members

- guides (minimum group size 10 persons)

- for ICOM and ICOM members with a Pulszky card

- Visitors with disabilities + 1 accompanying person

Group admission for more than 10 persons HUF 3500/person Duration. Please start your visit in the time slot you have purchased.

 

Ticket prices

(to September 01, 2023)

Full price ticket HUF 3600

50% discount (student/pensioner) HUF 1800

children (1-6 years) HUF 1200

Discounted 500 HUF tickets are available for:

- holders of a teacher's card

- ICOM and ICOMOS members

- guides (minimum group size 10 persons)

- for ICOM and ICOM members with a Pulszky card

- Visitors with disabilities + 1 accompanying person

Group admission for more than 10 persons HUF 3200/person Duration. Please start your visit in the time slot you have purchased.

IMPORTANT INFORMATIONS

 

The Permanent Exhibition, the Temporary Exhibition, as well as the Sound Dome can be visited with an entrance ticket (closed on Mondays!), for which tickets can be purchased online or in person at the ticket office of the House of Music. Our permanent exhibition is an interactive, audiovisual music history exhibition. Upon entry, we give everyone a pair of headphones, which will be your personal assistant during the exhibition. To experience the full experience of the exhibition, it is worth planning these two or three hours. Please start your visit in the purchased time slot.

Luggage, backpacks, umbrellas and bags of any size must be placed in the cloakroom or luggage lockers. It is essential to use headphones to view the permanent exhibition. The headphones can be requested from our colleagues before the entrance to the permanent exhibition. The devices also work with hearing aids, they do not interfere. The program language is currently available in Hungarian and English. Our guests with hearing aids can also visit the exhibition, but we do not recommend it for people with cochlear implants.

We recommend viewing the permanent exhibition from the age of 6.

With the exception of Fridays, our exhibitions close at 6:00 p.m. The last date for issuing tickets and entering is 4:15 p.m. On Fridays, the exhibitions can be visited with extended opening hours until 8:00 p.m., the last time for ticketing and entry is 5:45 p.m. Please leave the given area when the closing colleagues appear. With the ticket purchased online, the first two hours of parking in the Museum Underground Garage are free on the day of the visit. Please validate your parking tickets at the information desk of the Hungarian Music House.

 

pictures from the permanent exhibition

Our great-grand parents and great-great grand parents had been singing ,dancing in the past. Let's travel back in time and connect with our roots through music, dance and story tales.

  • Recommended age group: Class 1-4. 
  • Duration: 2x 45 min
  • Date: every Tuesday and Wednesday (with live music)
  • Price: Tuesday 1000 Ft / participant, Wednesday with live music 1300 Ft / participant

Our great-grand parents and great-great grand parents had been singing ,dancing in the past. Let's travel back in time and connect with our roots through music, dance and story tales.

  • Recommended age group: Class 1-4. 
  • Duration: 2x 45 min
  • Date: every Tuesday and Wednesday (with live music)
  • Price: Tuesday 1000 Ft / participant, Wednesday with live music 1300 Ft / participant

Our great-grand parents and great-great grand parents had been singing ,dancing in the past. Let's travel back in time and connect with our roots through music, dance and story tales.

  • Recommended age group: Class 1-4. 
  • Duration: 2x 45 min
  • Date: every Tuesday and Wednesday (with live music)
  • Price: Tuesday 1000 Ft / participant, Wednesday with live music 1300 Ft / participant

Our great-grand parents and great-great grand parents had been singing ,dancing in the past. Let's travel back in time and connect with our roots through music, dance and story tales.

  • Recommended age group: Class 1-4. 
  • Duration: 2x 45 min
  • Date: every Tuesday and Wednesday (with live music)
  • Price: Tuesday 1000 Ft / participant, Wednesday with live music 1300 Ft / participant

Our great-grand parents and great-great grand parents had been singing ,dancing in the past. Let's travel back in time and connect with our roots through music, dance and story tales.

  • Recommended age group: Class 1-4. 
  • Duration: 2x 45 min
  • Date: every Tuesday and Wednesday (with live music)
  • Price: Tuesday 1000 Ft / participant, Wednesday with live music 1300 Ft / participant

Our great-grand parents and great-great grand parents had been singing ,dancing in the past. Let's travel back in time and connect with our roots through music, dance and story tales.

  • Recommended age group: Class 1-4. 
  • Duration: 2x 45 min
  • Date: every Tuesday and Wednesday (with live music)
  • Price: Tuesday 1000 Ft / participant, Wednesday with live music 1300 Ft / participant

Our great-grand parents and great-great grand parents had been singing ,dancing in the past. Let's travel back in time and connect with our roots through music, dance and story tales.

  • Recommended age group: Class 1-4. 
  • Duration: 2x 45 min
  • Date: every Tuesday and Wednesday (with live music)
  • Price: Tuesday 1000 Ft / participant, Wednesday with live music 1300 Ft / participant

Our great-grand parents and great-great grand parents had been singing ,dancing in the past. Let's travel back in time and connect with our roots through music, dance and story tales.

  • Recommended age group: Class 1-4. 
  • Duration: 2x 45 min
  • Date: every Tuesday and Wednesday (with live music)
  • Price: Tuesday 1000 Ft / participant, Wednesday with live music 1300 Ft / participant
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Our great-grand parents and great-great grand parents had been singing ,dancing in the past. Let's travel back in time and connect with our roots through music, dance and story tales.

  • Recommended age group: Class 1-4. 
  • Duration: 2x 45 min
  • Date: every Tuesday and Wednesday (with live music)
  • Price: Tuesday 1000 Ft / participant, Wednesday with live music 1300 Ft / participant

Our sessions for children are held only in Hungarian.

In the kaleidoscope – and on this occasion the Sound Dome kaleidoscope acts in magical way – his music and the soundspace open up together uniquely to evoke the indescribable Himalayan environment in which the pilgrim-scientist Sandor Csoma lived out his days among the mountains.

Language: English

Both the visual and musical worlds of the Csoma Kaleidoscope reach back to Tibor Szemző's Arboretum Suite (2002) and his film The Guest of Life (2006). In the kaleidoscope – and on this occasion the Sound Dome kaleidoscope acts in magical way – his music and the soundspace open up together uniquely to evoke the indescribable Himalayan environment in which the pilgrim-scientist Sandor Csoma lived out his days among the mountains.

"To the scholars of his generation, Csoma was an obscure figure from Transylvania, abandoned and stateless among the Himalayan mountains, but from their peaks he cast the shadow of a giant across Central Asia."
W.W. Hunter

In this work, we hear the voice of Sándor Kőrösi Csoma delivering his personal account, originally written for a certain Captain Kennedy. In it he relates his travels and his aims after his detention by the British authorities on suspicion of espionage. Doctor Gerard, the British doctor who visits Csoma in his cell, also contributes as fragments of the Hindu world filter in through the kaleidoscope of Francis Bain's enchanting narrative. The source of the texts is the Csoma biography Life and Works of Alexander Csoma de Körös / Kőrösi Csoma Sándor dolgozatai (1885) by Tivadar Duka. The intimate, personal narration, spoken from an eyewitness perspective, is embedded in and accompanied by instrumental and vocal music that is orchestrated for the unique tonal qualities of the kaleidoscope, meanwhile the images multiply in a kaleidoscopic fashion fully in harmony with the music. During the nineteen movements of the performance, the approach to Csoma is assembled and we the audience come closer to understanding what this ’adventure' must have been like from the inside, and to experiencing the incomparable experience of spaciousness.

 

staff
Tibor Szemző – director, music and text
Dániel Németh – visuals
Ákos Lovász – sound design
Vazul Mandli – curator

the film crew
István “Taikyo” Szaladják – photography
Gábor Roskó – paintings
Kása Papp, Bálint Kolozsváry - animations
Teri Losonci – editor
György Durst, Attila Bognár – producers

the musicians
The Gordian Knot Creative Music Lab
Zsombor Dudás – drums and percussions
Ildikó Fodor – soprano voice
Tamás Geröly – gardon
László Gőz – basstrumpet, sea shells, tillinkó
István Grencsó – tenor saxophone
Ernst Hirschberg – keyboards
Mihály Huszár – electric double bass, bass guitar
Szabolcs Keresteš – piano, celesta
László Kéringer – tenor voice
Zsigmond Lázár – violin
Éva Posvanecz – viola
Alois Samson – wind controller
Tibor Szemző – narrator, bassflute, 8mm-phone
T. Bali – electric guitar

Voces Aequales Ensemble
Zoltán Gavodi – countertenor voice
Csaba Gyulai – tenor voice
Zoltán Mizsei – baritone voice

Tomasini String Quartet
László Paulik, Erzsébet Rácz – violin
Éva Posvanecz – viola
Balázs Máté – cello

Lobsang Dhamchoe – chanting voice
Lama Lobsang Gedun – recitation

recording and sound design
Alois Samson – Fodderbasis
István Horváth – HEAR Studio
László Hortobágyi – Tharnox Studio
Zoltán Regenye Regi – HSB Mobile Studio (India)
Károly Liszkai – Studio RH
Tamás Zányi – Saint Audio
Károly Göllner – CPT Mures Mobile Studio (Romania)
Viktor Szabó – Budapest Music Center

literary sources
Theodore Duka: Life and Works of Alexander Csoma de Körös Francis William Bain: An Incarnation of the Snow, The Substance of a Dream

consultants
Eszter Molnár, Caroline Bodóczky, Gábor Ferenczi

© & ℗ Tibor Szemző 2002-2023 all right seserved

The original English and Hungarian versions of the CSOMA KALEIDOSCOPE are both available.

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In the kaleidoscope – and on this occasion the Sound Dome kaleidoscope acts in magical way – his music and the soundspace open up together uniquely to evoke the indescribable Himalayan environment in which the pilgrim-scientist Sandor Csoma lived out his days among the mountains.

Language: Hungarian

Both the visual and musical worlds of the Csoma Kaleidoscope reach back to Tibor Szemző's Arboretum Suite (2002) and his film The Guest of Life (2006). In the kaleidoscope – and on this occasion the Sound Dome kaleidoscope acts in magical way – his music and the soundspace open up together uniquely to evoke the indescribable Himalayan environment in which the pilgrim-scientist Sandor Csoma lived out his days among the mountains.

"To the scholars of his generation, Csoma was an obscure figure from Transylvania, abandoned and stateless among the Himalayan mountains, but from their peaks he cast the shadow of a giant across Central Asia."
W.W. Hunter

In this work, we hear the voice of Sándor Kőrösi Csoma delivering his personal account, originally written for a certain Captain Kennedy. In it he relates his travels and his aims after his detention by the British authorities on suspicion of espionage. Doctor Gerard, the British doctor who visits Csoma in his cell, also contributes as fragments of the Hindu world filter in through the kaleidoscope of Francis Bain's enchanting narrative. The source of the texts is the Csoma biography Life and Works of Alexander Csoma de Körös / Kőrösi Csoma Sándor dolgozatai (1885) by Tivadar Duka. The intimate, personal narration, spoken from an eyewitness perspective, is embedded in and accompanied by instrumental and vocal music that is orchestrated for the unique tonal qualities of the kaleidoscope, meanwhile the images multiply in a kaleidoscopic fashion fully in harmony with the music. During the nineteen movements of the performance, the approach to Csoma is assembled and we the audience come closer to understanding what this ’adventure' must have been like from the inside, and to experiencing the incomparable experience of spaciousness.

 

staff
Tibor Szemző – director, music and text
Dániel Németh – visuals
Ákos Lovász – sound design
Vazul Mandli – curator

the film crew
István “Taikyo” Szaladják – photography
Gábor Roskó – paintings
Kása Papp, Bálint Kolozsváry - animations
Teri Losonci – editor
György Durst, Attila Bognár – producers

the musicians
The Gordian Knot Creative Music Lab
Zsombor Dudás – drums and percussions
Ildikó Fodor – soprano voice
Tamás Geröly – gardon
László Gőz – basstrumpet, sea shells, tillinkó
István Grencsó – tenor saxophone
Ernst Hirschberg – keyboards
Mihály Huszár – electric double bass, bass guitar
Szabolcs Keresteš – piano, celesta
László Kéringer – tenor voice
Zsigmond Lázár – violin
Éva Posvanecz – viola
Alois Samson – wind controller
Tibor Szemző – narrator, bassflute, 8mm-phone
T. Bali – electric guitar

Voces Aequales Ensemble
Zoltán Gavodi – countertenor voice
Csaba Gyulai – tenor voice
Zoltán Mizsei – baritone voice

Tomasini String Quartet
László Paulik, Erzsébet Rácz – violin
Éva Posvanecz – viola
Balázs Máté – cello

Lobsang Dhamchoe – chanting voice
Lama Lobsang Gedun – recitation

recording and sound design
Alois Samson – Fodderbasis
István Horváth – HEAR Studio
László Hortobágyi – Tharnox Studio
Zoltán Regenye Regi – HSB Mobile Studio (India)
Károly Liszkai – Studio RH
Tamás Zányi – Saint Audio
Károly Göllner – CPT Mures Mobile Studio (Romania)
Viktor Szabó – Budapest Music Center

literary sources
Theodore Duka: Life and Works of Alexander Csoma de Körös Francis William Bain: An Incarnation of the Snow, The Substance of a Dream

consultants
Eszter Molnár, Caroline Bodóczky, Gábor Ferenczi

© & ℗ Tibor Szemző 2002-2023 all right seserved

The original English and Hungarian versions of the CSOMA KALEIDOSCOPE are both available.

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The Symphonic Poem for 100 Metronomes is one of György Ligeti's best-known compositions, the visual aesthetic of which leaves a deep impression on all who witness it. It is no coincidence that this piece was also played at the time of his final farewell. The work is hypnotic and provokes deep reflections on the themes of time, existence and our relationship with the universe. The Symphonic Poem is also a critique of György Ligeti's contemporary musical milieu and the radical composers who saw themselves as such. On the occasion of the 100th anniversary of György Ligeti's birth, we start the 100 metronomes on the screen of the Sound Dome, as the composer instructed, and listen from the centre of the magical space as the clicks run out of time, together or separately, until they are all silenced.

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DOME 010 – 'Tales from the Lakeside'-day

 

The Lengemesék, characterized by Judit Berg, are a big crowd favorite in domestic waters, from which a TV series and two full-length cartoons were made. Now they are reviving in a new dimension not only for older kindergarten and elementary school children.

Language: hungarian

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Sound Dome - DOME 000 Moods

 

It is a unique creation, its possibilities are unpredictable. You have to come here from time to time to get to know the latest discoveries. The first message conveys the sounds and images of the Carpathian Basin from a special auditory and visual perspective.

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DOME 009 – Cloudhitects: Point Cloud Budapest

 

The next show at the Sound Dome is a point cloud journey that exhibits the sights of Budapest in a naturalistic point cloud environment. All these images begin to behave in an abstract way at a certain point in the audio-visual projection, with spaces merging into each other during the journey. The abstractions reinterpret the scanned spaces and they come to life on the surface of the Dome. The Parliament building, Chain Bridge, Várkert Bazaar, Hold Street, Heroes' Square, the Academy of Sciences, the National Gallery and the Eastern Railway Station all appear in the production.

 

Age limit classification

We do not recommend viewing the show for viewers under the age of 14.

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DOME 008 – BOSCH The Garden of Earthly Delights

 

Although the Bosch exhibition at the Museum of Fine Arts has ended, from December the House of Music is bringing the Garden of Earthly Delights to life. In the domed room a 360-degree projection of Miss Virgács’ (Nikolett Németh) collage animation technique sets the Dutch painter’s altar triptych in motion to the accompaniment of contemporary polyphonic choral works by Cantemus, subtly distorted and modulated by MA'AM (Anna Makay), and complemented by diabolical sound sequences.

 

Age limit classification

We do not recommend viewing the show for viewers under the age of 14.

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DOME 006 - The Intergalactic Gateway

 

What can the Sound Dome do? What is ’surround sound’? What is 360-degree projection? How are works produced for a unique audio-visual system like this? On this occasion, the Sound Dome itself will answer – using the voice of the actor Barbara Hegyi – more questions than you can shake a stick at, using a projection to lead the audience on a fabulous journey, illustrated with excerpts from the content currently being shown at the Dome. This short film aims partly to show the variety of ways in which the creators are able to use the technology built into the space, and partly to introduce viewers to the diversity of genres that can be explored within it. They can experience, for example, what happens when sound and image are in synch, and what it is like to have visual content responding instantly to sound and music at any given moment.

The virtual tour, which sets off from Liszt Ferenc Airport, offers visitors a playful way of exploring the complex system of the Sound Dome and its hidden potential.

Vazul Endre Mándli is the artistic curator of the new content woven together for the Sound Dome, Panni Néder is the story writer and director, while the sound engineer for the compilation is Tamás Zányi, the sound engineer for the Oscar-winning film Son of Saul, who has won multiple awards and international acclaim. The visual content was created by Gáspár Batta and András Juhász.

The screening of "Sound Dome: The Intergalactic Gateway" will be presented by the House of Music Hungary in cooperation with Budapest Airport as part of BrainBar 2022 and will then be included in the content available daily.

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