Audio Hardware

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Audio immersion can depend on the quality of the headphones available, and in cases where you can control which audio devices your audience uses, you can potentially improve their immersive experience. Carmel Clavin told me about an issue that came up while she developed Journey to the Kingdom of Hypnos for in-person tours: ‘I thought that it was all gonna be on silent disco headphones which were wireless. And then I realized that the technology frequency laws are different in every single country, or even in America, they're different by region; if I purchased a very expensive set of silent disco headphones here in the States, I could not use them in Sweden. So, I necessarily got wired headphones, noise cancelling headphones’. For the 2024 Adelaide Fringe performance of Hypnos, though, Clavin gained access to the ‘silent disco headphones’ thanks to partnering with ILA.