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Dear Allen,
A few years ago, I saw a wonderful sound solution. During the exhibit "Phonorama. a cultural history of the voice as medium" they developed a method to accommodate multiple "voices" in a large open hall. the loudspeakers were set up with motion detectors, so that as you approached the visual object (video screen, picture, artifact) the sound would get louder and more audible as you stepped nearer, weaker as you stepped away. It made for a wonderful museum-going experience on a theme that could easily have been a cacophony. I'm not sure how it would function when over-filled with school-kids, since theoretically one person standing at each object would have all loudspeakers on simultaneously.
the ZKM (Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe) was the location, Brigitte Felderer the curator. I think they developed the system together. I can help with further contacts off list if this sounds like a feasible solution for your needs.
http://www.zkm.de/phonorama/english.html
http://on1.zkm.de/zkm/stories/storyReader$4138
Wendy Coones
Danube University Austria
>>> Allan Ayres <[log in to unmask]> 31.05.2008 01:42 >>>
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Hi everyone,
This feels like a question that probably gets asked a lot... at
least, it comes up in our discussions here at LHS quite a bit. But I
searched the list archives and didn't find much, so I figured I'd ask
again:
Does anyone have recommendations for focused speaker systems?
We have one of those plastic dome speakers upstairs right now, and
it's pretty lackluster. And ugly.
We borrowed one version of the Dakota Audio steered arrays to try out
several years ago, and that one didn't work too well, but they may
have improved in the intervening time. (Apparently the new Newseum
is filled with Dakota Audio speakers -- has anyone been there and can
share impressions?)
The other major vendor I'm aware of is Holosonics, with the Audio
Spotlight.
Has anyone deployed any of these products, or have any experiences,
thoughts, impressions? We're developing a new exhibit that might
pack as many as five video loops into 1000 square feet, so we're
eager to find something to localize the sound as much as possible.
Thanks!
--Allan
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Allan Ayres
Exhibit Developer
Lawrence Hall of Science
University of California, Berkeley
Berkeley, CA 94720-5200
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