Experiential audio in museum contexts

博物馆和遗产部门正在经历一场激动人心的转变，将声音和声音技术作为策展的对象和媒介。这个项目将通过跨学科的实践和学术研究相结合来回应这一转变，研究音频如何在博物馆环境中增强游客体验。以罗马圣克莱门特修道院、威斯敏斯特宫的伊丽莎白塔和大本钟以及圣保罗大教堂的新沉思空间的设计为中心，本研究旨在研究各种可用于传递声音的技术，从低保真模拟解决方案到最新的技术可能性，同时探索音频内容创作的广度。该项目建立在学生和监督团队之前和当前进行的研究基础上，包括一个关于博物馆和遗产部门音频设计未来的知识交流项目，该项目将于2023年3月结束。这一探索由一位具有丰富经验的从业者领导，他在国际上最高水平的博物馆和遗产项目中从事音频设计工作，他的工作被主流、专家和学术媒体公认为开创性的工作。这个项目的独创性在于它对主流背景下的实验实践进行了系统的评估，结果是通过对相关技术和策展过程的批判性探索来支持现实世界的作品组合。

The museum and heritage sector is undergoing an exciting shift in its embrace of sound and sound technologies as both the object and medium of curation. This project will respond to this shift through an interdisciplinary combination of practice-based and scholarly research investigating how audio can enhance visitor experience in a museum context. Centred around designs for the San Clemente monastery in Rome, the Elizabeth Tower and Big Ben in the Palace of Westminster and a new space of contemplation in St. Paul's Cathedral, this research intends to look at a wide number of technologies that can be used to deliver sound, from low-fi analogue solutions to the latest technical possibilities whilst exploring the breadth of audio content creation. The project builds on prior and current research conducted by the student and the supervisory team, including a knowledge-exchange project on the future of audio design in the museum and heritage sector which is due to conclude in March 2023. This exploration is led by a practitioner with considerable experience of working on audio design in museum and heritage projects at the highest levels internationally and whose work has been recognised as path- breaking in mainstream, specialist and academic media. The originality of this project is in its systematic evaluation of experimental practices in a mainstream context, resulting in a portfolio of real-world works supported by a critical exploration of associated technical and curatorial processes.