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Sound Museum

1997 studio album by Towa Tei

Manuscripts, fine bindings, an engraving plate and preserved performance ephemera
Arts and lettersInterpretive dossier study · Crown Archives visual atlas
Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 28, 2025
Entity authoritySource title only
Source-derived summary

Sound Museum is the second studio album by Japanese music producer Towa Tei, released on May 25, 1997, by East West Records. Collaborators on the album include Kylie Minogue, Biz Markie, and Bebel Gilberto.

Editorial summary

“Sound Museum” enters the record as 1997 studio album by Towa Tei. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Sound, Museum and studio can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA useful identification and reception guide that helps separate the work itself from editions, performances, ownership and later interpretation. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1997—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Sound, Museum and studio.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

“Sound Museum” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Sound, Museum and studio provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

Attribution, date and provenance are strongest when supported by the original work, a catalogue record and documented transmission. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jun 28, 2025. The first chronological checks are 1997.

Critical limits

Rights, attribution and provenance may remain disputed even when a general reference summary presents a stable account. The source lead contains qualifying language; that uncertainty should survive quotation, summary and reuse. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

Separate the work, its editions or performances, and its later reception. Catalogue records, publication histories and object files often preserve different parts of that story.

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  • Identifying works and editions
  • Tracing reception history
  • Finding collection records
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The original object or edition, catalogue raisonné, performance record, rights file and holding institution.

Three-step research path

  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “Sound Museum”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Sound Museum primary sources, Sound Museum archive and Sound research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

Questions for further research

  1. Which source most directly establishes the central claim about “Sound Museum”?
  2. Which edition, object, performance or recording is being described?
  3. How did later circulation or interpretation alter the work’s reception?
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This entry incorporates text from “Sound Museum” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.