Touching Sound: Exploring the Science Behind Music at the RMSC

Posted by [email protected] | Jan 24, 2019 | Cultural Life | 0 |

Today, George Cassidy Payne adds the seventh piece to our Rochester Museum and Science Center series. Se the full series at end.

If you haven’t checked out the SoundSense exhibit at the RMSC, it’s a must see attraction that will only be around for a couple more months. The exhibit combines hands on activities with more traditional displays of rare artifacts and instruments from around the world, to create a one of a kind experience for music lovers of all ages.

Sounds are part of our everyday lives and help us to make sense of the world around us. We use sound to communicate, to warn of danger, and as a form of entertainment. Explore the nature of sound and how we sense it, dive into the science and art behind the tools we use to create different types of sound, and discover how humans use this compression of air molecules we call sound to create the emotional experience we call music. – Rochester Museum and Science Center

Photography by George Cassidy Payne

One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain. -Bob Marley

The next Keith Moon?

Sound and technology have each influenced the other. Technology is a driving force in the music industry and advancements in sound recording and reproduction have evolved the way we play and listen to music. (RMSC website)

Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness. Maya Angelou

When is it?
**Days Available:** Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday
**Start Date:** 10/05/2018
**End Date:** 04/21/2019
**Earliest Start Time:** 9amHow Much Does It Cost?
**Cost:** This gallery is included (availability varies) with Museum Group Admission: $7 per person; 1 free adult with every 5 students; RMSC Member adults free

THE RMSC SERIES

Looking for a cool date night? Stargazing at the Strasenburgh

“Good therapy” at the RMSC’s Garden of Fragrance with the Rochester Herb Society

Too much fun After Dark at the RMSC

47 years ago when the Eagle landed. What July 20th, 1969 has meant over the decades with Strasenburgh Planetarium’s Steve Fentress

Living the Native American way of being at Haudenosaunee Days at the RMSC

How do the Whispering Dishes at the RMSC work?

About The Author

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Welcome to Talker of the Town! My name is David Kramer. I have a Ph.D in English and teach at Keuka College. I am a former and still active Fellow at the Nazareth College Center for Public History and a Storyteller in Residence at the SmallMatters Institute. Over the years, I have taught at Monroe Community College, the Rochester Institute of Technology and St. John Fisher College. I have published numerous Guest Essays, Letters, Book Reviews and Opinion pieces in The New York Times, Rochester Democrat and Chronicle, the Buffalo News, the Rochester Patriot, the Providence Journal, the Providence Business News, the Brown Alumni Magazine, the New London Day, the Boston Herald, the Messenger Post Newspapers, the Wedge, the Empty Closet, the CITY, Lake Affect Magazine and Brighton Connections. My poetry appears in The Criterion: An International Journal in English and Rundenalia and my academic writing in War, Literature and the Arts and Twentieth Century Literary Criticism. Starting in February 2013, I wrote for three Democratic and Chronicle blogs, "Make City Schools Better," "Unite Rochester," and the "Editorial Board." When my tenure at the D & C ended, I wanted to continue conversations first begun there. And start new ones. So we created this new space, Talker of the Town, where all are invited to join. I don’t like to say these posts are “mine.” Very few of them are the sole product of my sometimes overheated imagination. Instead, I call them partnerships and collaborations. Or as they say in education, “peer group work.” Talker of the Town might better be Talkers of the Town. The blog won’t thrive without your leads, text, pictures, ideas, facebook shares, tweets, comments and criticisms.