RT Journal Article
T1 Staging listening
A1 James Mansell
A1 Alexander De Little
A1 Annie Jamieson
YR 2022
VO 17
IS Spring 2022
K1 Audiences
K1  audio
K1  BBC Radiophonic Workshop
K1  echo
K1  exhibition prototyping
K1  listening
K1  National Science and Media Museum
K1  sound
K1  sound archives
K1  sound postcards
K1  sound technology
AB 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.  
PB The Science Museum Group
SN 2054-5770
LA eng
DO 10.15180/221704
UL http://journal.sciencemuseum.ac.uk/browse/issue-17/staging-listening/
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WT Science Museum Group Journal
OL 30