Material Scientist Dr Mark Miodownik, acoustican Professor Trevor Cox and artist Zoe Laughlin will be performing demonstrations and discussing the art and science of the sound of materials. They will consider why buildings sound the way they do, why musical instruments are made from particular materials and what sound reveals that light does not.

Following the talk, drinks will be served and you will have the opportunity to play the instruments, encounter the materials and interrogate the demonstration equipment.

The Sound of Materialsis bought to you by Materials Library and is timed to coincide with the launch of What Can The Matter Be? –the Materials Library’s new audio accompaniment to Tate Modern. Intended as an experience for the curious and those interested in the stuff of art, What Can The Matter Be? will be freely available to download from the Tate website from the 14th of April 2007.

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