Listen: Making Sense of Sound. Site Index.

site index
This page contains links to all of the content of the Listen Web site.
As of October 6, 2006: This page still under construction

Jump to content lists for the main sections of this Web site:

At the Museum

Listening Guides

Online Activities

Jump to content lists for these different types of content available on this Web site:

Jump to Transcripts

Jump to Subtitled Movies

Jump to Downloadable Materials

.mov , Quicktime movies

.mp3 , Audio files

Printable Materials , (.pdf | .doc | .rtf)

Jump to Interactive games

Accessible Content

Jump to Having Trouble?

Jump to Contact Information

Jump to Exploratorium Links

This site address is: http://www.exploratorium.edu/listen

The Main sections of this Web site
At the Museum

What's at the museum? Page 1 | Page 2

About the exhibition: Sneak a peek

Public programs: What's going on?

Full list of upcoming public programs
Archived Public Programs

The Sonic Series | Sonic Series Full | Pauline Oliveros | You Won't Believe Your Ears

Come to the exhibition: Visiting Information

Exploratorium Hours and Admissions

Directions to the Exploratorium

Visiting the Exploratorium

Contributors: People who made Listen possible

Full list of contributors

Listening Guides

Doniga Markegard, wildlife tracker

Dean Hudson, acoustic navigator

Bart Hopkin, experimental instrument builder

Lisa Miller, auto mechanic

Michael Chorost, electronic listener

Doniga Markegard, wildlife tracker

Introduction

Video

Subtitled Video

More about Doniga

Related Links

Download Videos: no subtitles | subtitles

Activities Related to Listening to nature

See how well you can distinguish bird calls.

Listen for the quietest sound - and let us know what you found.

Listen for the quietest sound

Listening Tips

Download Listening Tips page

Downloadable Materials for Listening Tips : .pdf | .doc | .rtf

Share your findings

Gallery of Quiet Sounds

Listening Tools

Listening Tips

Quiet Your Mind

Go Beyond Names

Notice Your Noise

Walk Like a Fox

Dean Hudson, acoustic navigator

Introduction

Video

Subtitled Video

More about Dean

Related Links

Download Videos: no subtitles | subtitles

Activities Related to Listening to get around

Audio Pong

Listening Memory Game

Build a Soundscape

Build a Beach Soundscape

Build a Train Station Soundscape

Available in November 2006: Build a Café Soundscape

Blindfolded Walk

Downloadable Materials for Blindfolded Walk : .pdf | .doc | .rtf

Find that Sound

Downloadable Materials for Find that Sound : .pdf | .doc | .rtf

Bart Hopkin, experimental instrument builder

Introduction

Video

Subtitled Video

More about Bart

Related Links

Download Videos: no subtitles | subtitles

Activities Related to Listening to make music

See new musical instruments in action

Build your own instrument!

Downloadable Materials for Build your own Instrument: Make a Membranophone : .pdf | .doc | .rtf

Listening Memory Game

Lisa Miller, auto mechanic

Introduction

Video

Subtitled Video

More about Lisa

Related Links

Download Videos: no subtitles | subtitles

Activities Related to Listening to solve problems

Available November 2006: Can you identify these troubling car sounds?

Available November 2006: Car Stories: Weirdest sounds ever

Sound Bite

Downloadable Materials for Sound Bite : .pdf | .doc | .rtf

Michael Chorost, electronic listener

Introduction

Video

Subtitled Video

More about Michael

Related Links

Download Videos: no subtitles | subtitles

Activities Related to Listening electronically

Interview with cochlear-implant user Michael Chorost and a leading cochlear implant surgeon

Download this interview : .mp3

An X-ray of Michael's cochlear implant

Available November 2006: Animation of how the cochlea works

Available November 2006: Video of cochear implant insertion

Available November 2006: Color a cochlea

Some of Michael Chorost's Writings

The cochlear implant controversy

Online Activities

Try Online
Watch and Listen
Practice in the World
More about Listening
Do and Share

Try Online
Can you distinguish between these different birdcalls?
Audio Pong
Listening Memory Game (12 games available)
Build a Soundscape
    Build a Beach Soundscape
    Build a Train Station Soundscape
    Available in November 2006: Build a Café Soundscape
Sound Puzzles (8 games available)

Watch and Listen

Doniga Markegard, wildlife tracker
    Watch online. Download Quicktime.

Dean Hudson, acoustic navigator
   Watch online.   Download Quicktime.

Bart Hopkin, experimental instrument builder
   Watch online.    Download Quicktime.

Lisa Miller, car mechanic
    Watch online.    Download Quicktime.

Michael Chorost, electronic listener
    Watch online.    Download Quicktime.

Interview with Michael Chorost and the surgeon who gave him his cochlear implant
    Watch online.   Download .mp3 (20MB) .

See new musical instruments in action
    Watch online.

The Bell Project Blog

Available November 2006: Animation of how the cochlea works
Available November 2006: Video of cochear implant insertion
Available November 2006: Can you identify these troubling car sounds?
Available November 2006: Car Stories: Weirdest sounds ever

Practice in the World

Listen to the Softest Sound

Downloadable Materials for Listening Tips : .pdf | .doc | .rtf

Blindfolded Walk

Downloadable Materials for Blindfolded Walk : .pdf | .doc | .rtf

Find that Sound

Downloadable Materials for Find that Sound : .pdf | .doc | .rtf

Build your own instrument!

Downloadable Materials for Build your own Instrument: Make a Membranophone : .pdf | .doc | .rtf

Sound Bite

Downloadable Materials for Sound Bite : .pdf | .doc | .rtf

Color the cochlea—the part of your ear where physics, biology, and psychology meet

Available in November 2006

More about Listening
Physics of sound
How we hear (Ear physiology: Pinnae to auditory cortex)
Sounds
Music
More Information about our Listening Guides

Do and Share

Listen for the Softest Sound

Available December 2006 : How has your listening changed?