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The sound heritage of Kotagede: the evolving soundscape of a living museum (2024)
Journal Article
Mediastika, C. E., Sudarsono, A. S., Utami, S. S., Setiawan, T., Mansell, J. G., Santosa, R. B., Wiratama, A., Yanti, R. J., & Cliffe, L. (2024). The sound heritage of Kotagede: the evolving soundscape of a living museum. Built Heritage, 8(1), Article 38. https://doi.org/10.1186/s43238-024-00145-0

Kotagede, the capital of the ancient Mataram Kingdom and currently an area in the Yogyakarta Province of Indonesia, is known as a ‘real living museum’. It was previously a residential area with many vital premises and heritage buildings that became a... Read More about The sound heritage of Kotagede: the evolving soundscape of a living museum.

Staging listening: new methods for engaging audiences with sound in museums (2022)
Journal Article
Mansell, J., De Little, A., & Jamieson, A. (2022). Staging listening: new methods for engaging audiences with sound in museums. Science Museum Group Journal, https://doi.org/10.15180/221704

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 underto... Read More about Staging listening: new methods for engaging audiences with sound in museums.

Negotiating Noise: Across Places, Spaces and Disciplines (2021)
Book
Krogh Groth, S., & Mansell, J. (Eds.). (2021). Negotiating Noise: Across Places, Spaces and Disciplines. Sound Environment Centre, Lund University. https://doi.org/10.37852/oblu.115

Negotiating Noise Across Places, Spaces and Disciplines brings together writing by 20 researchers from across Europe and South-East Asia on the slippery but fascinating topic of noise. What is noise, where can it be heard, and what should we do with... Read More about Negotiating Noise: Across Places, Spaces and Disciplines.

Historical Acoustemology: Past, Present, and Future (2021)
Journal Article
Mansell, J. (2021). Historical Acoustemology: Past, Present, and Future. Music Research Annual, 2, 1-19

This article surveys the field and methodology of historical acoustemology, an interdisciplinary area of study dedicated to understanding past sounds, hearers, and listeners in their historical contexts. The article charts the field’s emergence in th... Read More about Historical Acoustemology: Past, Present, and Future.

Noise (2020)
Book Chapter
Mansell, J. G. (2020). Noise. In Literature and sound (154-169). Cambridge University Press

Materialising contexts: virtual soundscapes for real-world exploration (2020)
Journal Article
Cliffe, L., Mansell, J., Greenhalgh, C., & Hazzard, A. (2021). Materialising contexts: virtual soundscapes for real-world exploration. Personal and Ubiquitous Computing, 25(4), 623-636. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00779-020-01405-3

© 2020, The Author(s). This article presents the results of a study based on a group of participants’ interactions with an experimental sound installation at the National Science and Media Museum in Bradford, UK. The installation used audio augmented... Read More about Materialising contexts: virtual soundscapes for real-world exploration.

The Audible Artefact: Promoting Cultural Exploration and Engagement with Audio Augmented Reality (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Cliffe, L., Mansell, J., Cormac, J., Greenhalgh, C., & Hazzard, A. (2019, September). The Audible Artefact: Promoting Cultural Exploration and Engagement with Audio Augmented Reality. Presented at Audio Mostly 2019, Nottingham, UK

This paper introduces two ongoing projects where audio augmented reality is implemented as a means of engaging museum and gallery visitors with audio archive material and associated objects, artworks and artefacts. It outlines some of the issues surr... Read More about The Audible Artefact: Promoting Cultural Exploration and Engagement with Audio Augmented Reality.