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In this guided tour of Made in America: The Industrial Photography of Christopher Payne, photographer Christopher Payne will guide visitors through the exhibition, highlighting some of his original photographs of industrial manufacturing across the United States. From candy to pianos to humanoid robots, Payne’s photographs capture the ingenuity and diversity of products made in America, and the skilled workers who make them.   View full event details here.

Tour Cooper Hewitt’s home, the historic Carnegie Mansion, built for industrialist and philanthropist Andrew Carnegie and his family from 1899 to 1902.  View full event details here.

Known under his creative pseudonym OJAS, Devon Turnbull handcrafts high-fidelity audio systems designed to envelop the listener in sound that is as rich in texture as it is in emotion. Join members of the OJAS team as they activate the immersive sound installation with Miles Davis at Fillmore West, a historic recording from April 12, 1970. Miles Davis at Fillmore West features the final night of the four-night run where the Miles Davis quintet (Davis, Chick Corea, Dave Holland, Jack DeJohnette and Steve Grossman) opened for the Grateful Dead at the Fillmore West in San Francisco. Visitors will experience realistic, natural sound from Turnbull’s sculptures and a chance to slow down and engage deeply in listening.  View full event details here.

Join record producer Yale Evelev as he activates Devon Turnbull’s immersive sound installation HiFi Pursuit Listening Room Dream No. 3. Evelev will use his extensive experience as a record producer and collector to play music specifically selected to be heard through Turnbull’s large-scale, handmade audio system located in the historic Carnegie Library at Cooper Hewitt. He is the head of Luaka Bop Records along with musician David Byrne.    Designed to envelop the listener in sound that is as rich in texture as it is in emotion, visitors will experience realistic, natural sound from Turnbull’s sculptures and a chance to slow down and engage deeply in listening. View full event details here.

In conjunction with the current exhibition Made in America: The Industrial Photography of Christopher Payne, please join Christopher Payne and Pulitzer Prize-winning design critic and author Alexandra Lange for a discussion on Payne’s intricately detailed photography of America’s factories. The program will consider Payne’s photographs of industrial manufacturing as part of a long history of image-making of American architecture and design, highlighting spaces of production, the skilled workers who make things, and the products themselves. They will also discuss the significance of Payne’s work now, in this period of rapid industrial transformation.  View full event details here.

Known under his creative pseudonym OJAS, Devon Turnbull handcrafts high-fidelity audio systems designed to envelop the listener in sound that is as rich in texture as it is in emotion. Join friends and members of the OJAS team as they activate the immersive sound installation, HiFi Pursuit Listening Room Dream No. 3. They will play music specifically selected to be heard through this large-scale, handmade audio system located in the historic Carnegie Library at Cooper Hewitt. Visitors will experience realistic, natural sound from Turnbull’s sculptures and a chance to slow down and engage deeply in listening. View full event details here.

Known under his creative pseudonym OJAS, Devon Turnbull handcrafts high-fidelity audio systems designed to envelop the listener in sound that is as rich in texture as it is in emotion. Join friends and members of the OJAS team as they activate the immersive sound installation, HiFi Pursuit Listening Room Dream No. 3. They will play music specifically selected to be heard through this large-scale, handmade audio system located in the historic Carnegie Library at Cooper Hewitt. Visitors will experience realistic, natural sound from Turnbull’s sculptures and a chance to slow down and engage deeply in listening. View full event details here.

In this curator-guided tour of Art of Noise, visitors will explore one hundred years of design for sound. From concert posters to record albums, phonographs to digital music players, handheld radios to sound systems, Art of Noise takes visitors on an exploration of how design has transformed people’s relationship to music over the past century. This tour will be led by Cindy Trope, Associate Curator of Product Design and Decorative Arts.   View full event details here.

Join musician, composer, and producer Gregory Uhlmann as he activates Devon Turnbull’s immersive sound installation HiFi Pursuit Listening Room Dream No. 3. Using his extensive background across a variety of genres including jazz, folk, and electronic, Uhlmann will play music specifically selected to be heard through Turnbull’s large-scale, handmade audio system located in the historic Carnegie Library at Cooper Hewitt.     Designed to envelop the listener in sound that is as rich in texture as it is in emotion, visitors will experience realistic, natural sound from Turnbull’s sculptures and a chance to slow down and engage deeply in listening. View full event details here.