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

A museum visitor trying the Eavesdropping exhibit

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. There is even listening at home via the web at www.exploratorium.edu/listen

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