Description
The event opened with Dr Michael McKnight’s demonstration of a sound mixing and binaural acoustic effects using technology with 6 jacks, 6 sets of headphones, and his laptop. He played the Maritime Trail app audio recordings of stories about mermaids, seals, water beasts, ghost ships which the project collected in the National Folklore Collection (Dublin) and PRONI (Belfast) archives and showed the way he amplified the stories in a sound editor. Karl O’Reilly and Brian Coyle demonstrated the Maritime Trail app on tablets that included various 3D models of vernacular boats (curraghs, cots, dinghies, etc.) scanned from various parts of Ireland, Rathlin included. Prof Maxim Fomin and Prof Emeritus Séamus (Mac Mathúna spoke to the audience about maritime stories, displayed on posters and the pop-up stand.| Period | 28 May 2025 → 29 May 2025 |
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| Event type | Exhibition |
| Location | Northern IrelandShow on map |
| Degree of Recognition | International |
Keywords
- Maritime
- folklore
- Binaural acoustics
- sound technology
- augmented reality
- multimedia
- Irish Folklore
- Irish Language
- multilingual
- museum
- conservation
- boat-building
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Projects
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AHRC funded Green Transition Ecosystem: Future Island-Island
Project: Research