Stations-ID: A005

Instruction:

With a partner, each take position in front of one of the dishes and speak into them. How must your heads be positioned in order for you to be able to understand each other well?
• Have you ever looked into a shaving mirror?
• Position your head so as to face the middle of the dish.
• Move back slowly.
• Where do you hear your partner especially well?
The dome of the old Hall of Representatives in the Capitol in Washington D.C. supposedly made secret conversations difficult. Apparently, it was constructed to make any conversation clearly audible on the other side of the room.

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Stations-ID: A003

Instruction:

Place your ear on one end of the spiral and speak into the other end slowly and
clearly.
• Use short words, say them loudly.
• How much time do you recon passes between speaking and hearing?
• How long do you think the listening spiral is?
Small male frogs that can’t find a mate because their vocal sacs are too small,
have a better chance of being heard when the temperature is lower; Because
cold air has better sound transmission, their calls are heard better.

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Stations-ID: A010

Instructions:

Go inside and listen!

• Where does the sound come from?
• Which way does the sound go?
• Where does the sound go?
• What could the sound be?

Stations-ID: A011

Instructions:

Take place opposite of each other and speak towards the wall.

• Can you understand your partner better when he is facing towards you while speaking or when he whispers sideways, towards the wall?

• While speaking loudly, move towards the centre of the whispershell. What do you hear? What do the others hear?

One person takes position in the centre and tries to either speak to the others or listen to their conversation.

• Standing in the middle, say a few words. How does your voice sound to you? How does it sound to the others?
• Do you have an idea as to why the dome is open at the top?

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Stations-ID: D037

Stations-ID: D075

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Stations-ID: D076

?? English instruction:

Take the Mirror ears, hold them to your ears and walk through the room.

Hold your ears to the sphere shaped listening lamp.

What can you hear?

• Stand in the room. What do you hear?

• What do you hear when you hold your ear to the openings in the sphere?

• Do all spheres sound the same?

• What do you hear if you cup your hand over the ear?

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Stations-ID: D079

?? English instruction:

Take a glove or a blue cloth.

Take hold of an aluminium bar with your thumb and index finger and move our hand slowly outward, varying pressure and speed as you go.

• Where can you generate a tone easily?

• What are the differences between the tones produced by the different bars?

• Listen along the length of the top bar, where is the sound at it’s loudest?

• Touch a bar gently with the tip of your finger, while it is ringing. What do you feel?

What do you feel when you touch the the round top of a ringing bar?

This station was built by Dresden-based musician Jan Heinke. With the steel cellos and steel harps he has constructed, he has created a unique sound which can hardly be compared to the sound of classical instruments.

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Stations-ID: D074

?? English instruction:

Hold both ends of the tube to your ears. What do you hear if you speak or sing?

Ask a partner to scratch or knock on the tube.

• What do you hear when you hold both ends of the tube to your ears? What do you hear when you hold one end of the pipe to one ear?

• Can you hear if your partner is knocking on the left or right side of the tube?

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Stations-ID: D088

?? English instruction:

Put your head in one of the hollows of the humming stones and hum different tones to yourself: loud, quiet, high or low notes.

A partner can put his hand on your shoulder lightly during this experiment.

• What do you hear when humming in the hollow? What do you feel?

• Try different notes. Do they all sound the same?

• What does your partner feel when (s)he places his/her hand on your shoulder?

This experiment was designed by the educationalist, artist and carpenter Hugo Kükelhaus (1900-1984) for his ‘Experience Field for Developing the Senses’. He was inspired by stone age cult sites found on the island of Malta, he describes the effect of the experiment as follows: „The inner massage that is created in the head and reabsorbed by it signifies an unusually intense connection of the entire body from within.“

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