With Over 55 Exhibits, Continues for Summer 2007 Dive into the sonic soup. Listen: Making Sense of Sound, a major new 5000-square-foot Exploratorium exhibition, three years in the making, features over fifty-five interactive exhibits, forty of them brand new.
It continues at the Exploratorium throughout Summer 2007 and beyond. In the exhibition, listen as a musician does for the patterns that form the structural framework of musical composition. Or sort out the aural clues that evoke a sense of place - automatic doors and cash registers vs. teaspoons clinking against cups and espresso machines. Explore the physiological processes of hearing, human speech and communication, and take a host of sonic journeys.
Combining exhibits, activities, demonstrations, specially commissioned artist-created listening environments, as well as public programs, this exhibition invites you to experience - as never before - the nature of sound, the ways in which humans perceive sound, and, most importantly, how you listen.
This exhibition is a place to listen as a deer does when you try on alternative ears and learn the ways the shape and orientation of an animal's ears affects the sounds it hears. Or, like a snake, listen with your teeth and jawbone - turns out you don't even need ears to listen at all! Navigate an underground train with a blind person as your guide. Swap the soundtracks of well-known movies to uncover the powerful influence of sound in creating mood.
Listen combines the active, engaging and dramatic experiences for which the Exploratorium is famous, such as a jukebox of very unusual music, or a 1950's "eavesdropping"Â hairdryer hood, with far more contemplative sound environments. Listen: Making Sense of Sound is included in the price of admission to the Exploratorium. -- www.exploratorium.edu
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