N.Y. Stop a moment. Sound is easy to take for granted. The drawers of four file cabinets contain 81 tape recorders, each of which begins playing when its drawer is opened.
Viewers can open more than one drawer at once.
Recordings by Gavin Mc Keirnan, Skidmore College. These audio clips can be played with Apple's QuickTime software for Windows or Macintosh. Open several drawers at once and you can mix their sounds, controlling the volume of each by closing its drawer partway. After a few minutes of experimenting, it's easy to find yourself hooked. My kid could do this.