Sennheiser Wins Audio Installation Award

Sennheiser has picked up the Audio Installation of the year at this year's AV Awards for its contribution to the audio system for the 'David Bowie is' exhibition at the Victoria and Albert Museum.
The exhibition was one of the museum's most successful exhibitions with around 312,000 visitors and pre-booked ticket sales reaching more than 67,000 prior to opening.
It was the first international retrospective of the extraordinary career of David Bowie, exploring his creative processes as a musical innovator and cultural icon.
Sennheiser’s guidePORT audio guide system featured in the exhibition, integrating sound material into the tour of the galleries and automatic music and narrative when visitors approached the exhibits.
The audio voyage culminated in a Sennheiser 3DAudio experience, where visitors were enveloped by a multi-media performance of David Bowie’s music played through hidden Neumann KH series loudspeakers.
Geoffrey Marsh, co-curator of the exhibition said: "David Bowie is integrated over 300 objects and costumes from the David Bowie Archive with high quality sound and video to create a seamless evocation of Bowie's career over five decades. It was the first major UK exhibition where sound was an integral part of the interpretation. Working with Sennheiser on audio delivery was a fantastic opportunity. They pushed the boundaries as to how sound can evoke, provoke and inspire visitors and they created a genuinely multi-media museum experience which was a challenging objective but one the V&A are delighted to have realised with Sennheiser's support and expertise."
"We are very proud to have worked with the V&A on the David Bowie project," says Phil Massey, General Manager at Sennheiser UK. "Being honoured with an AV Award shows that our work is appreciated by the industry which is delightful."
Sennheiser continues to support the David Bowie is exhibition as it goes on tour to a number of leading venues of art and design around the world and is currently showing at the Art Gallery of Ontario in Canada until 27 November. It will then travel to the following museums:

• Museum of Image and Sound, Sao Paulo, Brazil from 28 January to 21 April
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• Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, USA from September 2014 to January 2015
• Philharmonie de Paris/ Cité de la Musique, Paris, France from 2 March to 31 May 2015
• Groninger Museum, Groningen, The Netherlands from 15 December 2015 to 15 March 2016

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