>We have had a lot of good results with sound cones. Is that a >possibility for your installation? They are affordable and easy to >install/manage. We use them in our African and Native American >Galleries and special exhibits.
The Tech Museum in San Jose did an exhibition about four years ago in which they built their own sound domes -- sound tubes, really -- in-house. They worked just as well as the commercially available sound domes for a fraction of the cost (I'd guess around $200 vs $2k). Attached is an image (assuming that the MCN listserv doesn't get all fussy about image attachments) in which you can see three of the sound tubes hanging form the ceiling (I've overexposed the image so you can actually see them). The trick there was to have enough vertical space to make the tube long enough to work. I'd imagine if you were working with a drop ceiling you could hide part of it in the ceiling to reduce the overall visual impact. -bw. -- -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Bruce Wyman, Director of Technology Denver Art Museum / 100 W 14th Ave. Pkwy, Denver, CO 80204 office: 720.913.0159 / fax: 720.913.0002 <bwyman at denverartmuseum.org>
