Play It By Ear
A new exhibition at the Canadian Children’s Museum
Gatineau, Quebec, September 30, 2004 - A new exhibition at the Canadian Children’s Museum celebrates sound as an art form and gives young visitors a unique opportunity to explore and create with this intriguing sense. Play It By Ear is new travelling exhibition that invites children to interact with original sound sculptures created by sound artists from the San Francisco Bay area where the exhibition was produced. The exhibition opens Saturday, October 2 at the Canadian Children’s Museum in the Canadian Museum of Civilization.
In the Play It By Ear exhibition, visitors can tinker and play with unique works of contemporary sound art, including a keyboard that activates dancing Slinky toys, a giant music box that lets children create the melody, and a machine filled with balls that create sounds by striking different objects. Kids and their families can even confirm that sound is a vibration by sitting on a gigantic drum and feeling the sound through the seat of their pants!
Play It By Ear is a delightful learning experience for the whole family. It provides a rare opportunity for kids to touch, experiment and play with contemporary art. They create unique sound forms as they pound, crank and strum the objects in the exhibition and expand their experience of art and their understanding of sound.
Sound is intriguing to children and provides the ability to convey interesting lessons about the world, particularly the scientific properties behind sound. Play It By Ear engages families in the creative process by linking them with artists and inventors, as well as providing an opportunity to make their own sound art objects.
Play It By Ear was created by the Bay Area Discovery Museum of Sausalito, California, for the Youth Museum Exhibit Collaborative in 2003.
Play it by Ear will open on Saturday, October 2, 2004 at the Canadian Children’s Museum, part of the Canadian Museum of Civilization in Gatineau, Quebec, and be on display until January 9, 2005.
Public information: (819) 776-7000 or 1-800-555-5621.
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Chief, Media Relations
Canadian Museum of Civilization
Tel.: (819) 776-7167
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Canadian Museum of Civilization
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