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Sight and Sound Experience

Check out this edgy mashup of art and music and science. We've got exhibits where you can actually feel sound. We've got others where you can hear light. You'll use lasers, sophisticated software and the movements of your own body to create perfect harmonies in all kinds of musical stylings, plus multisensory performance art experiences. By comparison, those rock and roll video games are just posing.

Art Jam

As you enter this acoustically enclosed exhibit, you're greeted by five sculptures that respond to your touch in a surprising way - they play music. Thanks to some super smart software in these funky instruments, even non-musicians will sound like pros. We even installed sensors in the room that react to sound frequencies to trigger an accompanying light show. Rock on, dude.

DJ Voice Match

Visitors experiment by speaking into a microphone and trying to match the visual display of sound frequencies their voice makes with that of professional radio DJs, like Bosh & Cory from Connecticut's own Country 92.5. You can also sing into a microphone and create a laser lightshow that graphically depicts waveforms made by the acoustic energy of your voice.

Light Paint Box

Visitors play with light, color and sound using their gestures and movements, both individually and collectively, to create unique riffs made up of sounds and rhythms from different musical genres - hip hop, rap, Latin, Afro-Caribbean, heavy metal and more. Out of respect for our older visitors (a.k.a. parents), no moshing please.

What's The Frequency?

Ever wondered how certain instruments ended up with their shape? Wonder no more, Herr Beethoven. In this exhibit, you'll sprinkle sand on two differently shaped metal plates (one is violin-shaped) and start a motor that vibrates the plates. Watch how the patterns of sand differ and how they change when vibrated at different frequencies. This basic technique is used in real life to achieve the optimum sound in musical instruments.

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Musical Instrument Sculpture
Musical Instrument Sculpture
Musical Instrument Sculpture
Musical Instrument Sculpture

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Want To Be An Acoustical Engineer

If you choose the field of engineering to study acoustics you have a number of avenues to forge your career path. These include: Audio Engineering (high fidelity sound system design), Architectural Acoustics (design of concert halls, recording studios and music rooms), Musical Acoustics (design of musical instruments), Noise Control and Sound Quality (of machinery, jet engines, automobiles, environmental regulations), and Bio-Engineering (design of hearing aids, replacement parts for ears, hearing test equipment).

The College of Engineering at the University of Hartford offers two unique ways to incorporate acoustics into an undergraduate engineering degree program:
Acoustical Engineering and Music B.S.E. Program
B.S.M.E. Program with Acoustics Concentration
Find out more by visiting http://uhaweb.hartford.edu/celmer/

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Sight and Sound Experience is made possible by They Cheryl Chase & Stuart Bear Family Foundation and the Rhoda & David Chase Family Foundation.

The following supporters have also contributed to this gallery:

Clear Channel Radio 92.5, 95.7, 105.9
Edgemer Foundation
Haggett Longobardi, A Division of J.H. Cohn, LLP
Halloran and Sage LLP

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