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Join music editor, event curator, professor, and author Marcus J Moore as he activates Devon Turnbull’s immersive sound installation HiFi Pursuit Listening Room Dream No. 3. Moore, known for his work with jazz and hip hop, 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.

Join Sam Valenti IV, music writer, collector and founder record label Ghostly International, as he activates Devon Turnbull’s immersive sound installation HiFi Pursuit Listening Room Dream No. 3. Valenti, known for his work with experimental electronic music, 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.

In this curator-guided tour of Made in America: The Industrial Photography of Christopher Payne, visitors will explore some of the 70 original photographs of industrial manufacturing across the United States, as seen through the lens of photographer Christopher Payne. 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. This tour will be led by Susan Brown, Acting Head of Textiles and Associate Curator.  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.

Experience Cooper Hewitt’s collection and exhibitions through drawing In this session, we’ll sketch in the galleries of the Made in America: The Industrial Photography of Christopher Payne exhibition, which explores the combination of human skill and mechanical precision that transform raw materials into objects as diverse as pencils, semiconductors, pianos, and rockets. This exhibition is full of visual imagery to spark the imagination... View full event details here.

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 our relationship to music over the past 100 years. Join us to learn more about this groundbreaking exhibition with a special introductory presentation from Joseph Becker, curator of architecture and design at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Becker will share insights into the history and making of the exhibition, which travels to Cooper Hewitt from SFMOMA. At Cooper Hewitt, Art of Noise will feature more than 300 objects drawn largely from the collections of Cooper Hewitt and SFMOMA, as well as unique sound environments designed by Stockholm-based studio teenage engineering and multi-disciplinary artist Devon Turnbull. View full event details here.

Join architecture and design curator Joseph Becker as he activates Devon Turnbull’s immersive sound installation HiFi Pursuit Listening Room Dream No. 3. Becker, who organized the museum's current Art of Noise exhibition and serves as Curator of Architecture and Design at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 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.

In this curator-guided tour of Made in America: The Industrial Photography of Christopher Payne, visitors will explore some of the 70 original photographs of industrial manufacturing across the United States, as seen through the lens of photographer Christopher Payne. 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. This tour will be led by Susan Brown, Acting Head of Textiles and Associate Curator.  View full event details here.