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Listening and Hearing

Create a sound system for music only you can hear.

Contemplate the continuum of cinema at After Dark.

What can YOU play?

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.

Distinct tones combine in the hum of this tuning fork.

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

See how strings behave when they vibrate and make sound.

The length of this vibrating rod affects the sound it makes.

Meet Douglas Hollis, the artist behind Archimedes.

Listen with your bones.

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