Visitors will receive special access to the Lou Reed Listening Room, a fully immersive acoustic, visual, and lighting experience designed to recreate Reed's groundbreaking composition for gallery visitors from his exact acoustic perspective while performing it live onstage, as well a wide variety of music and content not previously available to the public. The Listening Room is the latest iteration in a 13-year collaboration between Arup, Lou Reed, and his estate, this time with the public library. Arup designers Xena Petkanas (lighting) and Léonard Roussel (multimedia) will demonstrate the acoustic and visual capabilities of the space, discuss the impact of the addition of lighting in the listening room design for the very first time, and describe the process of programming and integrating the exhibition’s many elements.   The Lou Reed Listening Room is part of The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts' free exhibition Lou Reed: Caught Between the Twisted Stars, the first large-scale exhibition from Reed’s archive, which was acquired by the Music & Recorded Sound Division in 2017.

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