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Horn Man' Musician Exhibit Comes Alive with Motion-Activated Audio Spotlight Focused Sound Fields

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. 

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.

OUR REVOLUTIONARY SOUND IS NOW A PUBLIC HEALTH NECESSITY

Holosonics’ Cristofer Osden is featured in the October 2021 edition of Installation. In this issue, Cris explains how the global pandemic continues the push for touch-free sound technology, and how demand for products like Holosonics’ Audio Spotlight speakers have skyrocketed not only because they provide an exceptional user experience, but due to their completely sanitary nature.