Listen: Making Sense of Sound

Listen: Making Sense of Sound
With Over 55 Exhibits, Three Years in the Making
Opens October 21, 2006--December 31, 2007

Dive into the sonic soup. This major new 5000-square-foot Exploratorium exhibition features over fifty-five interactive exhibits, forty of them brand new. 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 and espresso machines. 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! 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. There is even listening at home via the web at www.exploratorium.edu/listen starting October 19.

Go to: http://www.exploratorium.edu/pr/documents/06-7Listen:.html

Opening Weekend Events
For information about Listen's opening events, go to:
http://www.exploratorium.edu/pr/documents/06-10Listen.html

To view images, go to http://www.exploratorium.edu/pr/documents/06-5Press.html

To see the complete press kit, go to http://www.exploratorium.edu/cgi-bin/pr/pr_date.cgi?presskit=Listen