Sound Experience Survey: Fulldome and Planetariums

Sound Experience Survey: Fulldome and Planetariums

The IPS Immersive Sound Committee in collaboration with IMERSA is conducting a sound experience survey to help the fulldome and planetarium communities grow better awareness of the current state of audio production workflow, presentation, and distribution in domes. 

With these surveys, we hope to better understand people’s sonic creative experience within the fulldome and planetarium communities to guide new initiatives within the International Planetarium Society (IPS), IMERSA, and beyond.

We will use the answers of the survey to build a state of the industry report that we hope will help guide future conversations and developments in the industry.  

Our Goal is to help identify challenges and propose a series of solutions to address: 

1. The importance of sound in fulldome productions.
2. Workflows and technological solutions for audio creators and engineers. 
3. Workflows and technological solutions for planetarium system design, program delivery, show production, and education. 
4. Methods of audio distribution and delivery. 
5. Helps us take action to improve our audio experience culture with consideration for new immersive audio formats. 

Surveys: 

NOTE TO OUR MULTI-HATTED COMMUNITY - You may be in one or more categories. There are four different forms. Please choose the one that best suits your perceived role in fulldome audio. If you feel you fit into multiple roles you are welcome to fill out multiple surveys. 

Form Categories links below:

• Audio Creators and Engineers (Anyone who is a part of the creation process of fulldome audio content. This includes audio producers, audio engineers, composers, sound designers, etc.) 
• Fulldome and Planetarium Technical Operators Survey (Anyone who holds a knowledgeable role in a planetarium or other fulldome environment and can respond to inquiries about the sound and audio systems involved in the running and distributing audio content in their domes)
• Facility Decision Makers (Anyone who has a role that provides them oversight in decision making processes for audio installs in fulldome or planetarium spaces)
• Fulldome Producers (Anyone who manages the production and budget of a fulldome production)

Any identifying information received from the survey is optional and will only be seen by the survey leads and is confidential. A summary of the results will be published and posted on the IPS and IMERSA websites sometime in 2023. 

“To accelerate the flow of ideas and advance our field, we need the voices of all those in the planetarium and fulldome communities to be heard. For these reasons, establishing current audio literacy and standards are vital to the mission and success of the International Planetarium Society, IMERSA, and to all communities that use sound.” -  IPS Immersive Sound Committee