The second floor offers the Sonosphere, an exploratory world of sounds and tones. Right in the entrance, we feel immersed in a beautiful installation that reproduces our most embryonic and remote memories; the sounds of sensations in a womb.

Laboratory of perception – a set of interactive terminals where to experiment with our audition senses. Photo © Haus der Musik

We spend a long time in the laboratory of perception, a set of interactive pieces that let the user learn more about human audible perception by experimenting and playing with pitch, frequency and space while understanding the real meanings of loud, soft, echo or distortion.

Photo © Haus der Musik

The laboratory of perception is a truly educative and interactive experience followed by the Instrumentarium, a space with very special instruments and some other interactive terminals where we can explore the art of sampling using our own voice and some archived samples.

The gallery of sounds. Photo © Haus der Musik

The Sonosphere exhibition ends with the Gallery of sounds, a place where the visitor can hear and experience diverse sounds of very different nature and finally mix them into a final composition using the Evolution Machine, an interactive terminal which let the user not only create the composition but finally burn it into a CD which you can take home for 7 EUR.