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Project

Historical Sounds

WorkgroupRealistic Depictions
DurationAutumn 2022-Summer 2025
FundingLeibniz Research Alliance „Value of the Past“
Project description

How can the historicity of sounds and noises be integrated into a museum narrative? What role do acoustics play in the transfer of knowledge in connection with the movement of visitors and in the field of tension between analog and digital? In order to answer these questions, the project "Historical Sounds" investigates the influence of different representations of historical sounds on their reception in the context of a presentation using 3D glasses.

For this purpose, rooms of the museum tugboat SEEFALKE of the German Maritime Museum are reconstructed in the virtual 3D glasses and the objects inside are provided with corresponding historically authentic sounds - either as audio-textual descriptions, as audio sounds in normal stereo quality or as spatially presented audio sounds. The study participants navigate through the rooms in a given order and listen to the audio narration about the contents and the correspondingly presented historically authentic sounds. In addition, the eye movements of the participants are recorded during the walk-through. At the end of the walk-through, the knowledge acquisition regarding the historical sounds and the further information in the audio narration, the historical experience of the tugboat and the perceived historical authenticity of the objects will also be assessed.

In addition to the basic scientific findings in the psychological and media technology fields, the results will be incorporated into the audio design of the real museum ship beyond the planned study, and the virtual reconstruction will serve as a prototype for a web-based virtual tour of the SEEFALKE on the website of the German Maritime Museum, thus enhancing the existing web presence of the SEEFALKE.

Cooperations
  • German Maritime Museum / Leibniz Institute for Maritime History
  • Ilmenau University of Technology

contact

Dr. Manuela Glaser Dr. Manuela Glaser
Tel.: +49 7071 979-253