In just over a week I’m going to look around the vessels again, this time with my friend and sound expert Jarrad Salmon, who is in charge of AV at the Sydney Conservatorium.

“HumanEar” by Dan Pickard. Licensed under Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons – http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:HumanEar.jpg#/media/File:HumanEar.jpg

As discussed in several posts, when visitors walk around the destroyer they will be following a pre-designed path, but they will move at their own pace and, of course, can wander off the route. The idea is that as they follow this journey that they will move through spaces and the sound will change for those spaces seamlessly by bleeding from one space to the next.

Imagine the “spill” or “mix” of sound that you get at a music festival as you go from one stage to the next. Except, that here the music will “fit” – it will take you from one mood to the next, but with no clash. A better comparison might be the way a DJ works – she takes you from one song to the next by finding things that fit … the beat at the same tempo, same or similar chords, textures. Perhaps at the point where you can hear both tracks you actually have a completely new texture.

Jarrad and I are going to look at the current sound system and see whether it can be adapted to fit my idea, or whether we need something completely new.