Ravinia Festival Music Makers

It’s time to make a little noise! Discover how sounds make music, and how music makes you feel in this melodious exhibit.

Activities

• Make melodies on the bolt- and wrench-a-phones
• Use soft sculpture pegs to make your own music box
• Blow air over a reed to learn about woodwinds
• Move musical notes on a staff to create a melody
• Feel the vibrations that sound can make on the thump deck
• Layer a melody, a harmony, and a rhythm to create a symphony
• Dance away, and watch your body make patterns on a colorful video screen
• Pluck a bass string and watch the vibrations
• Create an artistic masterpiece that reflects how music makes you feel
• Thump, strike, and beat drums and other percussion instruments in our Jam Room

Educational Benefits

• Manipulate melody, tempo and rhythm
• Discover how sound is made and that music is organized sound
• Detect differences in sounds
• Describe music notation and how notes on a page translate into sounds
• Distinguish between the individual sounds of a variety of instruments
• Compose unique pieces of music