Tagged with "music"
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Pictures of Sound
Case Study
by David Bailey Published June 25 2007
One of the toughest challenges we had working on the Wild Music exhibition was adhering to our goal of creating exhibits that were accessible to visually impaired people. Knowing that the primary activity for many of the exhibits would be listening to...
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Wild Music: Sounds & Songs of Life
Case Study
by Wendy Pollock Published April 10 2007
Wild Music explores evidence for the biological origins of music through highly interactive exhibits and exceptional sound experiencesand in the process, expands our understandings of what makes music.
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Jukebox Memories
Case Study
by Jim Spadaccini Published December 05 2007
Jukebox Memories is a computer-based exhibit that plays #1 hit songs from the years 1955 to 1995. It was originally developed as part of the Exploratorium's Memory exhibition. A simple "question and answer" format was developed to keep visitors...
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Playing the Building: An Installation by David Byrne
Review
by Beth Redmond-Jones Published June 21 2008
I was recently in New York and remembered hearing about David Byrne's sound installation at the Battery Maritime Building. Since we had time to spare before our ferry to Staten Island arrived, my family and I took some time to check this out and I'm...
Giant Marimba
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by Joanna Fisher on April 08, 2010
This is a real Marimba at Discovery Gateway in SLC, UT, but it applies all 7 of the characteristics of family learning as identified in the PISEC study. And it really works -- Family groups and different...
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Looking at Music 3.0
Review
by Amanda Salles Published March 27 2011
Sounds blaring from every display, each wall obnoxiously painted in a different “tasteless” color, no benches allowing a quiet personal reflective moment…The exhibit, Looking at Music 3.0 at New York’s Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), is nothing if...