Audio Spotlight Technology Beams Focused Narratives in a Unique Exhibit at the Williams College Museum of Art
Visitors to a recent exhibit at the Williams College Museum of Art (WCMA) were immersed in a multi-sensory experience as they viewed a collection of artifacts, journals, and other historical items that were described by narratives beamed from Audio Spotlight directional speakers from Holosonic Research Labs, Inc.
WATERTOWN, Mass., Dec. 12, 2019 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- Visitors to a recent exhibit at the Williams College Museum of Art (WCMA) were immersed in a multi-sensory experience as they viewed a collection of artifacts, journals, and other historical items that were described by narratives beamed from Audio Spotlight directional speakers. At the exhibit entitled "The Field is The World: Williams, Hawai'i, and Material Histories in the Making", Audio Spotlight technology was used to meet the challenge of playing audio describing individual exhibits that were in very close proximity to each other without creating any sound bleed from one display to the next.
The museum curators installed several ceiling-mounted AS-16i directional sound speakers that played a variety of interviews and historical accounts describing the collection that made up the exhibit. Inside each Audio Spotlight speaker, microSD cards stored exhibit audio, eliminating the need for external playback devices or unnecessary additional wiring, while motion sensor triggers embedded in each unit activated playback automatically, based on a patron's entry into the area where the beam of sound was focused.
The audio narratives described the exhibit, which was based on a cache of objects that were discovered in a box in the basement of a dormitory at Williams College in 1986. Inside the box were dozens of objects, including garments and weapons that were obtained from the Kingdom of Hawai'i in the 19th Century for the Williams College Lyceum of Natural History.
Audio Spotlight technology provided a perfect fit to tell the stories of the Hawaiian artifacts without creating sound bleed from one display to the next. Individual AS-16i speakers at each display produced narrow beams of sound to describe items that included an ankle ornament worn by tribespeople that was made of dog teeth, images of Hawaiian hula dancers, and a portrait of King Kalakauna, the last king and penultimate monarch of the Kingdom of Hawaiʻi.
For its use in museums like the Williams College Museum of Art or other similar settings and applications, the flexible and self-powered Audio Spotlight directional speaker is a powerful tool, ensuring that any exhibit has its own isolated audio, captivating visitors with an immersive, personal experience, while keeping the surrounding area quiet.
About Holosonic Research Labs, Inc.
Holosonic Research Labs, Inc., a pioneer in directional acoustics, develops and manufactures the Audio Spotlight directional sound system. Founded by MIT graduate Dr. F. Joseph Pompei, Holosonics' Audio Spotlight technology is used in a wide variety of applications including museums, libraries, offices, reception areas, retail displays, trade shows, and retail kiosks. The world's top organizations and companies use the Audio Spotlight directional sound system to beam sound to their listeners... and preserve the quiet.™
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