Linlithgow Museum is happy to announce our next virtual talk:

The Music of Linlithgow Palace in the 15th Century – A Virtual Reality Project
Wednesday 10th November, 19.30

We are delighted to welcome Dr James Cook from the Reid School of Music at the University of Edinburgh.

Imagine it is the 15th century and you are standing in the chapel of the Linlithgow Palace. Envisage all that this experience would entail: the interplay of candlelight on beautiful art, the exquisite performance of sacred music, and the acoustics of a performance space that today no longer exists. This is what the AHRC-funded ‘Space, Place, Sound, and Memory: Immersive Experiences of the Past’ set out to do.

Working closely with game developers, musicologists, architectural historians, and acousticians, the project aimed to recreate the sights and sounds of performance within the Palace chapel, using Virtual Reality. This can now be experienced by visitors to Linlithgow Palace (when the palace re-opens).

Another output from the project was a CD, the first commercial CD to be recorded and produced entirely in virtual reality, which sets Scottish music in our reconstructed acoustic, recorded with The Binchois Consort.

Join Dr Cook to learn more about this project including the process of reconstruction, see some of the VR experience and hear some of the first music created in VR!

Dr James Cook works mainly on early music and is interested fourteenth to sixteenth centuries music.

Booking Information:

Tickets for the talk are £5, and all profits from the event will help keep Linlithgow Museum running. Click here to book on ArtTickets

After booking you will receive a confirmation email with the Zoom link to the talk. We look forward to you joining us.

Please note the event will be recorded and screenshots taken. If you do not wish to be recorded please turn off your camera when joining the talk.

Images Credits: Dr James Cook