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Listening and Hearing

Contemplate the continuum of cinema at After Dark.

What can YOU play?

This keyboard creates tones that seem to keep getting higher—forever.

Find out how a cochlear implant helped one man regain the ability to listen.

Step into the world of wildlife tracker Doniga Markegard, who relies on her carefully honed listening skills to tune into nature’s subtle clues.

Sand reveals vibrations that are normally invisible.

Combine beats and melodies in a musical conversation.

Talk, clap, yodel, yell—your sounds bounce back at you.

Sometimes no sound is what you want.

Distinct tones combine in the hum of this tuning fork.

Listen to a 27-foot-tall harp that's strummed by the wind.

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