Audio Spotlight Technology Ensures Safety for Visitors

Touchless Audio at The Lyman and Merrie Wood Museum of Springfield History

At the Wood Museum of Springfield History exhibit Horn Man: The Life and Musical Legacy of Charles Neville, several AS-168i Audio Spotlight directional sound speakers provide sanitary, touchless directional audio playlists that highlight the musician’s proficiency in a range of musical genres. Visitors to the exhibition at the museum in Springfield, Massachusetts are dazzled by Audio Spotlight’s revolutionary directional sound beaming technology in an exhibition that promotes social distancing as it pays tribute to the late saxophonists’ life. 

Engaging visitors in an immersive, personal experience while keeping the surrounding area quiet, the flexible and self-powered Audio Spotlight directional sound speaker is a powerful tool that ensures any exhibit in a museum or gallery has its own isolated audio. 

To protect the health of patrons as well as staff members, museum and gallery directors are rethinking exhibit designs and audio delivery systems due the changed social landscape brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic. Unsanitary devices such as headphones, handsets, and listening wands have become antiquated relics of the past as exhibit venues everywhere have implemented social distancing measures and touchless technologies such as Audio Spotlight. 

By requiring no physical contact from the listener, Audio Spotlight – already a popular choice for adding focused sound beams as precise as a beam of light – has become an even more valuable tool owing to its inherently touchless design that delivers personalized audio experiences. 

“This exhibition that celebrates Charles Neville’s life and music would not have been complete without sound and we are happy to include the unique Audio Spotlight technology to enhance the visitor experience... Charles Neville has been remembered as an incredibly warm and giving individual, and we hope that the directional speakers reinforce the intimate nature of this exhibition, while at the same time providing up to five visitors in the gallery the opportunity to experience directly the music which so defined him.”
— Collections Specialist, Phyllis Jurkowski

Known onstage as “Charlie the Horn Man,” R&B and jazz musician Charles Neville was born in 1938 in New Orleans. Influenced early in life by the New Orleans’s music scene, Charles and his siblings formed the Neville Brothers, who became best-known for songs that embraced rhythm and blues, gospel, doo-wop, soul, rock, jazz, funk, and the sounds of Mardi Gras. 

At the Wood Museum exhibit, Holosonics’ patented directional speaker technology was used to isolate sound for patrons who are directed by floor decals indicating where to stand to hear music activated by motion sensor triggers embedded in the Audio Spotlight units. Each individual playlist in the exhibit’s five AS-168i speakers includes a selection of songs that highlight different points in Neville’s journey as a musician. The playlists are comprised of a five-minute selection of songs that focus on the music and artists that influenced Neville during a particular time of his life as well as recordings of Neville’s music.

Contact us to learn more about how our Audio Spotlight directional sound technology can benefit your projects in the same way it enhanced the experience for visitors at the Wood Museum as well as a wide variety of other settings that include retail stores, libraries, hospitals, airports, and many other locations throughout the world.

AUDIO SPOTLIGHT IN ACTION

Audio Spotlight is a revolutionary audio technology that creates sound in a narrow beam, just like light. Aim the flat, thin speaker panel to your desired listening area, and provide all of the sound and none of the noise.™ From museums, exhibits, and digital signage to retail stores and special projects, hundreds of companies have chosen this patented technology to provide high-quality, precisely controlled sound, while preserving the quiet.™

 

ADVANTAGES

  • Sound for specific displays - and quiet elsewhere.

  • Several soundtracks in one room - without disturbing others or interfering with one another.

  • Untethered sound delivery, without the need for messy headphone wires or unsanitary handsets.

SELECTED CUSTOMERS

International
Tate Modern, UK
Centre Pompidou, France
DDR Museum, Germany
Venice Biennale, Italy
Train World, Belgium
National Museum of Ireland
Royal Alberta Museum, Canada
Science Centre, Singapore
Auckland Museum, New Zealand
MACBA, Spain
Primorsky Aquarium, Russia
Schirn Kunsthalle, Germany

Domestic
Guggenheim, New York NY
Smithsonian, Washington DC
Field Museum, Chiacgo IL
Exploratorium, San Francisco CA
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston MA
LACMA, Los Angeles CA
Perot Museum of Nature & Science, Dallas TX
The Ringling, Sarasota FL
Peabody Museum, Cambridge MA
St. Louis Science Center, St. Louis MO
Space Needle, Seattle WA
National Baseball Hall of Fame, Cooperstown NY

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