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David Bowie Is… at the V&A Museum Sector – Temporary Install / AV David Bowie Is… at the V&A Museum Sector – Temporary install / AV Project Overview London’s Victoria and Albert Museum is the world’s leading museum of art and design and has curated a unique exhibition on one of the most influential artists of our time, David Bowie. The exhibition runs from 23rd March to 11th August 2013 and takes visitors on a multi-faceted journey of sound and style. As well as its cleverly designed visual elements, the exhibition relies heavily on audio, and the V&A worked in partnership with Sennheiser, using a range of equipment including its guidePORT audio guide system and two immersive 3D sound simulations, to deliver visitors the best possible audio experience. Challenge overview The exhibition is designed as an immersive audio experience, so sound quality is one of the most critical elements. The audio technology needed to work seamlessly with the visual elements and in an intuitive way so as not to distract visitors’ attention and affect their enjoyment of the exhibition. The audio installation also had to take into account the historic nature of the building and its construction, which contains a lot of metal, placing additional demands on the technology to overcome signal loss. Solution overview ‘David Bowie is’ integrates over 300 objects and costumes from the David Bowie Archive with high-quality sound and video to create a seamless and innovative evocation of Bowie’s career over six decades. Fittingly for a tribute to an artist who has embraced technology throughout his career, the exhibition uses cutting edge tools to blend sound and vision, including Sennheiser’s guidePORT system. The audio voyage through the exhibition culminates in two extraordinary 3-D audio experiences. Viewing footage of David Bowie performing live concerts and recordings filmed for TV, visitors are enveloped within a fantastically spatial performance of his music, which utilises Neumann and Klein+Hummel loudspeakers. Project details Audio guides, powered by Sennheiser’s guidePORT system, automatically provide the music and soundtrack when visitors approach the exhibits and screens, and seamlessly integrate all sound material into the tour. The exhibition uses 550 bodypacks with Sennheiser stereo headphones, offering a simple solution that lets the visitor explore Bowie’s music, art, and style with all their senses. While two audio events are directly stored on the visitors’ bodypack receivers – a welcome text when entering the exhibition and an ‘extro’ when leaving – all other music and video sound is transmitted as real-time, lip-sync stereo audio from 11 twin cell transmitters utilising an induction loop system. These rack-mount units are located in two control rooms that also accommodate the control PC for the guidePORT system. The visitors’ receivers automatically download the audio when they pass by the corresponding guidePORT antenna units, and ‘know’ which track to play when they approach so-called identifiers, small trigger units placed near the exhibits – just like an indoor GPS. The 3-D sound experience is delivered by hidden Neumann and Klein+Hummel loudspeakers. It is also used during Tony Visconti’s evocative ‘mash-up’ of Bowie songs, created specially for the exhibition by Bowie’s long-term producer. To enable both stereo and mono material to be played as a 3-D reproduction, an upmix algorithm by Sennheiser’s Gregor Zielinsky was used. Klein+Hummel loudspeakers..
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