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The
Dark
The Dark is an interactive virtual world that challenges how we perceive the real world. Three-dimensional music and ghostly presences inhabit a haunted soundscape. Explore and interact with virtual ghosts from our past, hear their stories and solve their mysteries – using only your ears and your imagination.
The Dark enables visitors to experience British history in new and participatory ways by using the latest digital sound technology to create three-dimensional soundscapes filled with the virtual ghosts of our past. It challenges the way we perceive our surroundings by looking at how we interpret a world without visual cues.
You can explore The Dark in two spaces:
The website and installation complement and support each other, presenting different versions of the same original material through different types of interactive engagement. This original material is a combination of specially commissioned music, sound effects and the reminiscences of ghosts re-living significant moments in their lives. These ghosts tell of their experiences as slave traders, sea captains and slaves who passed through the ports of Liverpool and Bristol.
The Dark is an original work created by Braunarts and commissioned specially for Culture Online. Braunarts has recruited a team of talented artists to create this unique experience.
Gabi Braun, as interactive director, has collaborated with writer Maria Oshodi and composer Rob Godman. With producer Terry Braun, they have produced this multi-sensory experience. Programmer Adam Hoyle and music and sound producer Martyn Ware oversaw the music production on The Dark's custom-made 3D Sound system.
The resulting experience, both for those online at home or for those visiting The Dark installation, is a unique mixture of the exciting, the challenging and the scary.
Following its successful opening at the Dana Centre of the Science Museum, the installation has now begun its tour of the UK.
From May 14 - August 27 2004 it was at Magna Science Adventure Centre, Rotherham
The Dark has now moved to ThinkTank Birmingham, Millennium Point, Curzon Street, Birmingham B4 7XG, Tel 0121 202 2222
The Dark online experience can be found at
www.thedark.net