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2024
Report
Sonic Futures: Making Digital Exhibition Prototypes in the COVID era
Sonic Futures is an AHRC-funded engagement and impact project exploring listening at the National Science and Media Museum. The project tackles the problem of how to tell the story of sound technologies by working with audience listeners. Our listeners collaborate with artists to build and test new audible exhibits that...Mansell, James
sound technologies, National Science and Media Museum, listen, music, COVID-19, sound, engagement, and audible exhibits
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2019
Blog post
Gallery Listening
Museums are spaces for listening as well as looking. Discover the story behind our new Sound Technologies Collection, and Gallery Listening Sessions.Mansell, James
National Science and Media Museum, museum, listen, curation, exhibition, audio, sound technology, cassette, and sound
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2024
Research report
Project Report for National Science and Media Museum
This Arts and Humanities Research Council Creative Economy Engagement project explored the sound map as a tool of community heritage and museum audience engagement. The project sought to move beyond the limitations of the medium in order to consider emergent, technologically innovative possibilities for engaging museum audiences with sound.Mansell, James ; Stafford, Jonathan
sound technologies, museum, audience, listen, sound map, exhibition, engagement, curation, and sound
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2024
Other
Music, Noise and Silence: Case for support
This document is the case for support for the AHRC research networking scheme, which funded the Music, Noise and Silence project.Kolkowski, Aleks ; Mansell, James ; Boon, Tim
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2017
Journal article
‘A Chamber of Noise Horrors’: sound, technology and the museum
This article examines the 1935 Science Museum temporary exhibition on Noise Abatement, situating it in the sound historical context of inter-war Britain, and making an argument that the ‘way of hearing’ it advanced was part of an attempt to shape auditory perception in the interests of a class-bound culture of...Mansell, James
music, technology, collection, journal article, curation, sound, noise, public engagement, and exhibition
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2022
Journal article
Staging listening: new methods for engaging audiences with sound in museums
This article reports on the experimental methodology and key findings of the AHRC-funded impact and engagement project Sonic Futures: Collecting, Curating and Engaging with Sound at the National Science and Media Museum (2020–21). The project undertook a series of listening-based public engagement activities – described here as staging listening –...Mansell, James ; Little, Alexander De ; Jamieson, Annie
public engagement, sound, exhibition, BBC, technology, audience research, collection, research, and journal article
