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Virtual Field Trip Grant:
Experiential Differences in Virtual vs. Physical Outdoor Sound Installations

Inner Transmissions

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The VR installation may also be viewed on Mac or Windows as a desktop application
Installation audio can be listened to in isolation here



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Headset VR Demo





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Papua New Guinea sculpture garden

Virtual field trip grant

Installation concept

Program Note

What does it sound like to listen to an entire world? What would our own world sound like from afar, covered in satellites and cables? Within each sculpture is another universe, one maybe very similar to our own or maybe drastically different, governed by unfamiliar forces and energies. Inner Transmissions invites listeners into the galaxies hidden within the Papua New Guinea Sculpture Garden.





Acknowledgments

Thank you to the Stanford Accelerator for Learning for funding this project. Special thanks as well to the VR Lab at CCRMA for the feedback and moral support.

Audio & data sources

Radio Maria, Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea
NBC News PNG, Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea
Nau FM, Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea
ATC archives from LiveATC.net, for UNNT (Novosibirsk, Russia), VMMC (Taipa, China), VTBS (Bangkok, Thailand), WBKK (Kota Kinabalu, Malaysia), WBKS (Sandakan, Malaysia), WMKB (Penang, Malaysia), and YBCS (Cairns, Australia)
GIS data courtesy of June Choi, Ph.D. '26

Unity asset sources

Flashlight
Ground material
Sky material
Benches
Cloud texture
Hands
Palm trees
Other foliage