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Orbital takes guidePORT to new Limits

Orbital takes guidePORT to new Limits

Duncan Chapman commented:

" It was so rewarding to use guidePORT in a highly creative way – applying its technology in an artistic environment. One that relies almost exclusively on "hearing" and "listening" rather than "looking" and "seeing". Adults and children alike have enjoyed the chance to construct their own meaning from this installation by using guidePORT's intuitive and hugely interactive qualities.

Visitors have the chance to walk along paths that twist within the forest - looking for clues about things which have happened or may happen. Using the guidePORT system, visitors receive different sounds as they move around the forest.

The musical soundscape for the installation has been created by two classes of six year old children from Edmund Waller primary school, New Cross, South East London. The students worked over three days with Duncan Chapman and six postgraduate musicians, who performed on instruments Prokofiev used for the characterisation of the Peter and the wolf story.

Orbital have recently been awarded the contract to supply an exclusive guidePORT audio tour guide system to The Museums In Docklands, which opens in May, to feature as an integral mechanism of London's new heritage site.

Sound experts Orbital has further underlined its commitment to guidePORT – the highly advanced tourguide system from Sennheiser and has recently been awarded three new and very different guidePORT installations.

These include the NCF's annual Awards staged at The British Museum and The Royal Festival Hall's Dark Forest installation inspired by Prokofiev's Peter and the Wolf. The company will also provide the exclusive tourguide system to the Museums in Docklands.

Fusing technical know-how with a creative approach, Orbital has tailored the guidePORT personnel tour guide system to meet the exacting demands of each contrasting application.

Orbital's MD, Chris Headlam commented:

"We are delighted with the positive response we've received about guidePORT and believe that it has the potential to add enormous value to Attractions, Museums and Heritage sites as it is an infinitely flexible and interactive tool."

The company has been appointed to design and supply a guidePORT system for the forthcoming NCH annual awards at The British Museum. As co-sponsors of one of the UK's leading children's charities, The British Museum is hosting the event on March 31st. Head of Events, Luke Rogers, has specified guidePORT to "bring to life" five sponsor plinths, positioned in the main hall as a major feature of the gala evening. The system allows sponsors' to communicate corporate messages and interact with guests using the innovative guidePORT technology.

Collaborating most recently with The Royal Festival Hall's Education Department, Orbital has helped realise a unique walk through experience – the Dark Forest in Prokofiev's Peter and the Wolf. This groundbreaking installation, which runs in the RFH's Ballroom floor 15th February – 30th March, centres upon a musical soundscape inspired by Composer/ Sound Artist, Duncan Chapman. Relying exclusively on guidePORT to relay the soundscape to visitors, it has been pivotal to the creative treatment and overall success of such an exciting and musically vivid project.

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Duncan Chapman commented:

" It was so rewarding to use guidePORT in a highly creative way – applying its technology in an artistic environment. One that relies almost exclusively on "hearing" and "listening" rather than "looking" and "seeing". Adults and children alike have enjoyed the chance to construct their own meaning from this installation by using guidePORT's intuitive and hugely interactive qualities.

Visitors have the chance to walk along paths that twist within the forest - looking for clues about things which have happened or may happen. Using the guidePORT system, visitors receive different sounds as they move around the forest.

The musical soundscape for the installation has been created by two classes of six year old children from Edmund Waller primary school, New Cross, South East London. The students worked over three days with Duncan Chapman and six postgraduate musicians, who performed on instruments Prokofiev used for the characterisation of the Peter and the wolf story.

Orbital have recently been awarded the contract to supply an exclusive guidePORT audio tour guide system to The Museums In Docklands, which opens in May, to feature as an integral mechanism of London's new heritage site.