Museum Space Tunes in to Nature's Song; Listening Gallery Represents Natural Events Through Sound
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FAIRBANKS, Alaska -- When the next big earthquake hits, John Luther Adams jokes, he'll be running into the University of Alaska Museum of the North while everyone else runs out.
He won't be able to resist hearing music the quake generates in the provocative gallery he designed, The Place Where You Go to Listen.See the full content of this document
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Museum Space Tunes in to Nature's Song; Listening Gallery Represents Natural Events Through Sound
What nature left quiet, Adams has assigned sound. The 53-year- old avant-garde composer gave digital notes to natural phenomena such as earthquakes, the aurora borealis and the moon, then let their movements dictate the com...
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