A vibrant exhibition exploring music’s mysterious hold over us
Turn It Up: The Power of Music, is a fun, family-friendly, interactive exhibition exploring music's mysterious hold over us. You’ll get a chance to hear, interact with, and even make your own music! You’ll also explore the science and secrets around the impact music has on us with unique interactive exhibits. The exhibition will open at the Science Museum from 19 October 2023, ahead of half term.
This hands-on exhibition explores how music drives us to create, perform, feel and share. Come and discover your inner music-maker in a musical playground or track your dance moves in the name of science.Through interactive installations, pioneering inventions, and more than 30 research studies, visitors can discover music’s impact on our emotions, our psychology and our wellbeing. The exhibition also showcases unique instruments, including a fire-powered organ, an Anarchestra satellite dish and MiMU gloves, invented by Imogen Heap and used by artists like Ariana Grande to make gestures that control music-making software live on stage.
Visitors can explore how individual our relationships with music are. Historic music players are complemented by newer devices and people’s musical memories. A film sees artists from Elton John to Anne-Marie recount their childhood music memories. This hands-on exhibition reveals that there is no right or wrong way to make music.
Sat in a car, visitors will find out which music boosts driving safety or relax on a bed to be soothed by a sedating composition. By opening sports lockers visitors will discover which surprising tracks sports stars including Hannah Cockroft and Andy Murray listen to before they compete. In a supermarket aisle find out which songs could alter the taste of food or pick up a phone to see which ‘on hold’ music keeps callers on the line longest. Learn about the MediMusic app which is being trialled in UK hospitals to allow medical staff to dispense music as medicine.
‘Eye-opening, captivating and at times wildly uplifting, Turn It up: The Power of Music is a hit for the whole family.’ Manchester Wire on the exhibition at the Science and Industry Museum.
Turn It Up: The power of music: 19 October 2023 – 6 May 2024
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