Sound Maze at the Krannert Center (Urbana, IL); image: courtesy Paul Dresher Ensemble and Sudhu Tewari
Special Event
Sound Maze
Thursday, Mar 5, 2026, 4–8 p.m.
Friday, Mar 6, 2026, 10 a.m.–5 p.m.
Saturday, Mar 7, 2026, 10 a.m.–5 p.m.
Floor 4, Gina and Stuart Peterson White Box
Free with museum admission.
Expand your understanding of sound as you improvise freely on newly invented instruments. Sound Maze, created by composers, inventors, and builders Paul Dresher and Daniel Schmidt, with new additions created by Sudhu Tewari and Bart Hopkin, is an interactive installation that lets you explore your musical creativity and experiment with unique large-scale instruments and sound sculptures.
“Unlike traditional instruments, the inventions of Sound Maze don’t require years of practice to create sound — one simply pushes, pulls, lifts, or strikes some part of the invention that results in intriguing sound and motion.”
— Paul Dresher