01 · Sound & Physics
Eigendrum
Draw any shape and hear it as a real drum — an interactive study of the standing waves a membrane can sustain.
The Museum of Music, Sound and Hearing.
A curated hall of interactive exhibits gathered from across the web — instruments you can play, physics you can see, and the anatomy that turns vibration into perception. Step inside.
The Exhibits
12 on view02 · Instruments
Air Theremin
A theremin you play in mid-air — wave your hands at the camera, or tilt your phone, to shape pitch and volume.
03 · Sound & Physics
Vinyl Explained
A ride along the groove at microscopic scale — watch a stylus trace recorded sound through vinyl physics.
04 · Hearing & Anatomy
Middle Ear and Inner Ear
Rotate and explore the machinery of hearing — cochlea, semicircular canals, and the ossicle chain — in 3D.
05 · Vocal Tract & Speech
Pink Trombone
A hands-on model of the human vocal tract — pull, push, and shape a pink cartoon airway to synthesize speech.
06 · Sound & Physics
Sound
A deeply illustrated interactive essay that builds sound from air molecules to hearing, one playable diagram at a time.
07 · Generative Music
Digital Darwin
A digital playground where melodies compete, reproduce, and evolve — a musical take on Darwin's ideas.
08 · Signal & Waves
Wifi Beamforming
An interactive walkthrough of beamforming, MIMO, and antenna directionality — the wave physics behind better Wi-Fi.
09 · Synthesis
pl_synth
A tiny synthesizer and tracker that turns compact JSON descriptions into complete songs.
10 · Vocal Tract & Speech
MeasureTransferFunction
Free software for measuring the acoustic transfer function of tube models, loudspeakers, and rooms.
11 · Instruments
The Talking Piano
The self-playing piano that Mark Rober taught to talk — precision solenoids, real strings, and a viral performance.
12 · Generative Art & Sound
Unknown Pleasures
A WebGL audio visualizer that turns any microphone input into the famous stacked-wave landscape of Joy Division's album cover.
From the Reading Room
MuSHmuseum
Music,
Sound &
Hearing
A coffee-table book of interactive exhibits
The coffee-table book
The museum, bound. Every opening of this book is a single exhibit — curatorial notes on the left page, a full-bleed plate on the right. Turn from cover to colophon; each spread links out to the living work on the web.