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In 2022, Kaunas will become the European Capital of Culture. Throughout the year, over a thousand events will take place around the city including several internationally-known artists, such as Yoko Ono, William Kentridge, and Marina Abramović. Kaunas V. Kudirkos Public Library has joined the opening program and introduced an interactive art installation, incorporating the use of Focusonics directional speakers, for “The face - the number - the word” (lit. „Veidas - skaičius - žodis“) that took place at the end of January.

Focusonics® directional speakers were used to develop an interactive art installation during the Ars Electronica 2021 - a festival for art, technology, and society. The festival was introduced in 1979 and after more than 40 years of experience, it evolved into one of the world’s most important media art festivals, which includes exhibitions, performances, and installations.

This fall Focusonics^® team had an opportunity to work with the composer Jonas Jurkūnas and playwright Kristina Savickiene to bring the idea of a journey through sound and light to life. The directional speakers were used to create a sound installation for a phonic contemporary opera’s Nida School Chronicles collective rehear.

During the month of October Focusonics^® directional speakers appeared in the Vilnius Art Academy (VDA) gallery Artifex. The sound system was integrated into an exhibition “Intuitive instructions”, created by a Lithuanian artist Donatas Norušis. “Intuitive instructions” consisted of four sound installations that used physical features of sound to tell the artist’s stories about the mythology of the art field.

In 2021 Neurotechnology has partnered with the National Museum of Lithuania (House of Histories department) to create an attention grabbing museum installation that ensures visitor engagement throughout the exhibition.

The majority of households around the world have a sound system in place. This could be a loudspeaker, a TV, a computer or even a mobile phone. As many contemporary technologies pack certain sound features, it appears that sound systems have become indispensable elements underlying our everyday life.

Before the beginning of the Coronavirus pandemic in 2019, you would typically expect to see perspex screens used in banks to help ensure the safety of employees behind the work station. Similarly, perspex screens could be found on public buses so bus companies could improve the welfare of their drivers.

The technological development of sound systems have increased their utility in various fields. As a result, several governmental institutions around the world, such as the military and police, invented and adopted various devices that implement sound technologies for peacekeeping, surveillance, and other purposes.

Speakers are devices that convert electric audio signals into mechanical vibrations that create sound waves. The current variety of speakers available in the market utilise different technological solutions to recreate sound.