We tend to associate science with analysing images and graphs. Yet scientists use their ears as well. Examples are biologists recording birdsong, or doctors listening to the bodies of their patients. Even data about volcanos and stars have been converted into sound. Why? What is the role of sound and listening in the recent history of science, engineering and medicine? The website (http://exhibition.sonicskills.org/) presents a virtual exhibition on these issues. It sprang from the VICI project Sonic Skills, funded by the Netherlands Organization of Scientific Research (NWO). The exhibition has been made by Karin Bijsterveld (coordinator), Joeri Bruyninckx, Marith Dieker, Anna Harris, Stefan Krebs, Alexandra Supper, and Melissa Van Drie, at the Faculty of Arts & Social Sciences, Maastricht University.

This exhibition is part of the Maastricht University Science, Technology and Society Studies research programme.

Booth 2 at Sonic Skills exhibition