Discover the story behind the art, the image, the exhibit…
Our eyes love images … but our minds love stories.
I can craft you the perfect audio guide - in short snappy sound bites and compelling audio vignettes, to bring the content of your collection to life - on line, for social media … or in your exhibit space.
Photo: Recording on location at Cane Ranch, North Rim Grand Canyon.
Here’s an example of a sound art sculpture and audio guide - for the ‘Artists for the Grand Canyon’ exhibit
Making Wildlife Watching Accessible
Audio field guides …
If you’ve ever gone to watch birds - or catch a glimpse of an iconic mammal, only to be confronted with what seems like an empty landscape - you’ve probably wished you had an expert with you, advising you where and how to look.
With my audio guides, I can make wildlife experts available in your ear, at the touch of the ‘Play’ button from your smart phone.
As a former researcher in field ecology, I know how to find the best experts and the coolest information, to make a audio guide that’ll transform your wildlife watching experience.
When I made a series of audio guides for the Arizona Watchable Wildlife Experience - I made the combined knowledge of seasoned wildlife biologists available to stream or download.
With their guidance, you’ll know the best season, time of day and location to see all sorts of fascinating species.
With simple driving instructions, these narrated guides make the key information easy to follow. With enough details and ‘insider tips’ to delight first time visitors - and give even long-time locals new insights.
inside creativity
A New Perspective
It can bring so much life to an art exhibit to wander from painting to painting, with the voice of the artist in your head … describing in their own words their life, their inspirations, and the creative process.
Here landscape artist Myrna Harrison, who sadly died in 2022, describes what her aim was when she painted - and why she was obsessed with the colour yellow…
Bringing history to life with sound
Stepping back in time…
Conversational audio guide material can turn a restored room, a diorama, or a collection of objects in cases … into a living, breathing moment in time. Transporting visitors to share in the lived experience of people at that time.
For this museum of the history and art of the American West I used a combination of recordings of period sounds, conversations with historians and art experts, and a voice actor to guide you through the historic room recreations…
A vintage steam train then street sounds take you downstairs to recreations of the historic old town
Here a voice actor plays a prominent lady in town, showing you around her home…
An art historian explains the very different lives of two iconic American bronze sculptures & painters…
ORal Histories - 100 years : 100 Ranchers
When photographer Scott Baxter took a series of superb photos for a project to celebrate the Arizona State Centenary there was only one question on my mind … what STORIES did these folks have to tell?
My question led to a series of oral histories to accompany the photography exhibit.
Recordings which are now archived with the Arizona State Historical Society.
‘A Good Hat’
Rancher Casey Murph covered a lot of ground in his interview. For many years he had been the lead mule wrangler at the Grand Canyon, leading numerous trips down to Phantom Ranch in all weathers. These days he’s a rancher in the windswept high plains near Holbrook, Arizona.
My first question for him was to explain what he looks for in a practical hat, suitable for his rugged lifestyle.
This intimate insight was the ‘top level’ 90 second clip in the audio guide…
Tumbleweed … and a Dry Creek
Jim Riggs confessed that he was hoping for a ‘glamour shot’ similar to the image of Casey Murph.
But when photographer Scott Baxter arrived one February day the rancher was clearing out the tumbleweed that was blocking a gate.
“Instead he got my rear end!” Riggs joked. Then told the story of how his family ended up in the Wilcox valley, at the end of the Civil War…