Professor JAMES MANSELL JAMES.MANSELL@NOTTINGHAM.AC.UK
Professor of Cultural History and Sound Studies
Staging listening: new methods for engaging audiences with sound in museums
Mansell, James; De Little, Alex; Jamieson, Annie
Authors
Alex De Little
Annie Jamieson
Abstract
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 – to identify new ways of engaging listening audiences with sound technology objects in museums. These activities led to the creation of three new interactive sounding exhibit prototypes created jointly with audiences. Because the project took place during periods of lockdown caused by the coronavirus pandemic in the UK in 2020–21, the exhibit prototypes were created digitally and tested via online interaction. The article argues that engaging with listening audiences can diversify and enrich museum listening scenarios, a term we use here to describe auditory situations which elicit different kinds of listening attention, interaction and learning. These listening scenarios produce divergent signatures of listening, a concept we develop here to describe the various kinds of learning and engagement we observed throughout the project.
Citation
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
Journal Article Type | Article |
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Acceptance Date | Feb 28, 2022 |
Online Publication Date | Apr 27, 2022 |
Publication Date | Apr 27, 2022 |
Deposit Date | Apr 28, 2022 |
Publicly Available Date | Mar 29, 2024 |
Journal | Science Museum Group Journal |
Print ISSN | 2054-5770 |
Publisher | The Science Museum |
Peer Reviewed | Peer Reviewed |
Issue | 17 |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.15180/221704 |
Keywords | Audiences, audio, BBC Radiophonic Workshop, echo, exhibition prototyping, listening, National Science and Media Museum, sound, sound archives, sound postcards, sound technology |
Public URL | https://nottingham-repository.worktribe.com/output/7838018 |
Publisher URL | http://journal.sciencemuseum.ac.uk/browse/issue-17/staging-listening/ |
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