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Sound Editor
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In 2000, Braunarts created three interactive works for the new Wellcome Wing building at the Science Museum in London - Network Globe, Sound Editor and Sound Editor Online.

The Sound Editor installation is part of the Digitopolis floor of the Wellcome Wing. Sound Editor encourages people to explore synchronising different bits of music, video and sound effects to create new combinations of media which take on different meanings. For example, the shark video synchronised with music that builds up tension might seem a bit scary, but synchronised with lighter music and some sound effects seems comical and engages the user in a completely different way.

Sound Editor is a reversion of the 'Backtracks' educational CD-Rom created for Channel 4 Schools and the British Film Institute by Illuminations Interactive in 1996. Backtracks has 30 video clips, 30 music tracks, 42 sound effects, a personal notebook for users to log their work and 6 kinds of classroom projects with 24 graded activities; whereas Sound Editor has 6 videos, 6 music tracks and 6 sound effects with guiding text, specially developed for use in short sessions by the general public visiting the Science Museum.

Sound Editor and is one of the 10 interactives from the entire Wellcome Wing chosen to exist in a special online version on the Science Museum website. Sound Editor Online contains music by Rob Godman, iO, Evelyn Glennie and Greg Malcangi and a specially commissioned 'Flash' animation created by Bruno Martelli of Igloo.

To see Sound Editor online you can go to the Science Museum website page shown below, select 'Digitopolis', then select 'Interactives' and then select 'Sound Editor', or, you can play it on the Braunarts site. Enjoy!