museums & galleries
A serene, quiet gallery lends an air of sophistication and comfort, allowing your guests to more fully experience and enjoy their visit. Chatter from museum speakers can distract and disturb your guests, threatening the peaceful environment you strive to provide. Audio Spotlight systems with SoundBeam® technology are used by the world’s top museums to provide localized museum and gallery audio for those who wish to hear sound, while maintaining quiet elsewhere.
The Audio Spotlight sound beaming device for museum sound systems is a revolutionary directional audio technology that creates sound in a narrow beam, just like light. Aim the flat, thin museum speaker at your desired listening area, and provide all of the sound and none of the noise.™ Museums throughout the world have chosen this patented technology directional speaker with sound beaming technology to provide high-quality, precisely controlled exhibit sound, while preserving the quiet.
ADVANTAGES
Directional gallery sound for specific displays - and quiet elsewhere.
Several directional audio soundtracks in one room - without disturbing others or interfering with one another.
featured installations
Visitors to the Legacy Gallery at the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum in Boston are immersed in a multi-sensory experience as they view a display of changing images depicting places around the world that are named for President Kennedy. At the exhibit, touchless Audio Spotlight technology was used to meet the challenge of playing audio narratives to describe the images that are in very close proximity to each other without creating any sound bleed from one display to the next.
The newly refurbished exhibition space in the Legacy Gallery was unveiled in 2019 and the museum curators installed four Holosonics AS-24i speakers in the gallery’s ceiling to broadcast descriptions of the images that are on display for patrons. In the gallery, the Audio Spotlight directional sound speakers are paired with an external audio feed that is connected to the respective video screen that each speaker plays sound for.
As part of the gallery’s refurbishment, the patented, revolutionary Audio Spotlight technology was installed to beam the narratives that describe the changing images on monitors that educate visitors about the many places that are named in Kennedy’s honor.
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The Battle of Britain Memorial opened their new building, "The Wing," at the Capel-le-Ferne in 2015. Aptly named, The Wing serves as a dedication to the Britain's Royal Air Force pilots who took to the skies to fend off German attack in World War II.
The new facility houses a massive multi-wall-sized video exhibit, “The Scramble Experience.” It is complete with interactive elements, such as the ability to take command of the British Fleet.
Delivering the sounds of the skyfield battlefront, filled with plane engines, communications, gunfire, explosions and all, were a series of thirteen Audio Spotlight speakers. The exhibit's designers selected the AS-24i model, due to its stronger output and low frequency response, as well as the intended coverage area. The Audio Spotlight technology proved to be the perfect fit for The Wing's multisensory exhibits, fully immersing visitors in another time and perspective.
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In the fall 2016, the famed Morrison Hotel Gallery of NYC brought in the refreshingly unique works of photographer Richard Ehrlich, featuring his "Face the Music" exhibition. In Ehrlich's prolific portrait exhibition, he captures the world's greatest musical minds reacting to their own favorite music.
Expanding on his visual art, and enhancing the private, intense, and expressive moments already captured within his photography, Ehrlich decided to deliver to gallery guests the actual music each artist was listening to at the moment their portrait was captured. In front of selected artist portraits, their own favorite song played, produced by a single AS-168i speaker at each location. Adding an intimate glimpse and direct connection with which each guest could fully appreciate every photograph, was the Audio Spotlight technology, harmoniously complementing Ehrlich's brilliant photography.
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Artist-in-Residence Ramon Rivera Moret unveiled his video installation, "The Ordinal Directions," at Amherst College's Eli Marsh Gallery in Spring 2011. The installation featured four projected videos, with a viewing bench situated in front of each. A single AS-24i Audio Spotlight speaker was mounted above each bench, to ensure that sound was delivered to every seat, separately, and precisely.
Rivera Moret's bench pairings did well to entice visitors to take a seat, and to fully appreciate the breadth of his thoughtful and artistic video footage, immersed with sound. There was no noticeable spillover between adjacent screens, nor any bleed apparent outside the gallery, thanks to the unparalleled directivity of the Audio Spotlight technology.
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In 2015, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology added three lobby exhibits to their infamous Media Lab, celebrating the life and work of Jerome B. Wiesner, former MIT president, science advisor to John F. Kennedy, and one of the original co-founders of the Media Lab itself. Titled "Jerome B. Wiesner: Visionary, Statesman, Humanist" the installation consisted of three side-by-side exhibits, each with its own physical display case of artifacts and memorabilia, as well as an engaging digital signage element.
A single AS-24i Audio Spotlight directional speaker accompanied each of the three screens, delivering sound for the video footage in front of each display. Spaced several feet apart from one another, and with no physical boundary between them, the Audio Spotlight speakers kept sound isolated to each exhibit, and also to the activated lobby area exclusively while the rest of the learning facility remained appropriately studiously quiet.
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