In May 2001, the I.D.E.A. Ensemble prepared Ambient Symphony at the SF Exploratorium's 2nd Wednesday Art Cafe Series ("The Prepared Exploratorium"). Throughout the museum, exhibits create sounds that most people ignore. This piece amplifies non-sound exhibits.

	Christi and Mitch solder together speakers for use in Ambient Symphony in the studio
	Celeste scopes out our section
	Celeste sets up the mixing board
	Mitch and Celeste in dicussion
	This exhibit was very quiet, but moved a lot, so we used jingle bells to amplify it