Devices / Immersive audio tours
Self-guided tours, headphones on. The story unfolds as you walk, while your eyes stay on the site itself.
- Format
- Ekko app, on visitors' own smartphones or loaned devices
- Duration
- From 30 minutes to over 2 hours
- Trigger
- Automatic, when approaching each listening point
- Languages
- As many as needed, recorded by native voice actors
Why sound?
Eyes explore the space.
No screen to stare at, no text to read: the visitor looks at what they're being told, at the very moment they're being told it.
Everyone at their own pace.
The tour adapts to the way each visitor moves around: they linger, go back, skip a stop. The story waits for them.
A narrative rooted in space.
Binaural sound places every object around the listener: a voice behind a door, a market on the square, a bell in the distance.
One visit, simple gestures.
The visitor walks, listens, discovers. The system takes care of the rest.
Download the app
Before the visit, or on a device provided at the reception desk. The tour loads all at once.
Put on headphones
The phone goes back in the pocket. No number to enter, no screen to look at.
Wander
As you approach a listening point, the story starts on its own, right on cue.
Immerse yourself in the space
The tour ends, the story stays: you listen again, share it, come back.
The tour, screen by screen.
From the map to the last collected fragment: what the visitor experiences in the app, at every stage of the visit.
what you hear, layer by layer
what you hear, layer by layer
The secrets of polyphony
This excerpt reveals the construction of a medieval polyphony.
Guided by the explanations of a cantor, three voices are gradually layered, spatialised within the reconstructed acoustics of the Grande Chapelle of the Palais des Papes.
(Best experienced with headphones, to appreciate how the voices are placed in space.)
Narration
A cantor explains how the piece is built and guides the listening experience, voice by voice.
Tenor
The foundational voice upon which the polyphony is constructed.
Duplum
A second voice that unfolds above the tenor.
Triplum
A third melodic line that completes the polyphonic whole.
Our approach
Your phone stays in your pocket. Your eyes stay on the site.
Three formats, depending on your venue.
30 to 45 minutes
Discovery
The highlights of the venue across a few listening points: ideal for a first visit or a busy site.
1 hour or more
In-depth
Several eras, multiple voices, details you wouldn't notice on your own: for visitors who want to understand everything.
Bespoke
Thematic
A family tour, a night-time version, a seasonal story: variations of the same venue, to bring visitors back.
Where does it work?
Archaeological sites
Where little remains to be seen, sound reconstructs what the eye can no longer find.
Cities and neighbourhoods
Outdoor trails that connect scattered places into a single narrative.
Parks and gardens
A listening experience at the pace of a stroll, revealing the history of the landscape and inviting reverie.
Monuments and historic sites
Several eras told in the same place, without cluttering the rooms.
Museums and exhibition spaces
A self-guided tour that complements labels and other cultural mediation tools.
They chose the sound journey.
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What is included.
What we need from you
- Access to the site, plans and sources
- Your scientific contacts for exchanges and validations
- Your constraints: network, schedules, audiences, languages
What we deliver
- The tour designed, written, recorded and mixed in each language
- The Ekko app in your brand colours, available on the app stores or pre-installed on your own devices
- The training of your teams and usage statistics
- The administration tool to keep content alive
Your questions, our answers.
No: the tour is downloaded before the visit, so listening is never interrupted, even out in nature.
It isn't mandatory: the tour can run on visitors' own phones, on devices loaned at the front desk, or both.
Listening is also possible without headphones, directly through the phone. Headphones are still recommended to fully enjoy the spatial sound experience.
It depends on its duration, the number of languages, and the setup: we establish a precise timeline from the very start of the design process.
Yes: the administration tool allows your teams to correct a text or adjust a listening point.
Usage statistics show the most listened-to points and time spent: everything you need to keep improving the tour.