What would happen if exhibition designers used music as a conceptual trigger and creative constraint? Music and exhibitions share some characteristics: Listening to music and visiting an exhibition happen over time, in varying tempos, in dense sequences and empty spaces, going through different movements or zones. Just like in an exhibition, music is built from the transformation of melodic or thematic figures declined in recurring formal patterns. In the same way that interpreting the exhibition is the result of a negotiation between the content, form and the visiting context, musical interpretation also requires constant negotiation tools from musicians to jointly create meaning or emotion. The session will explore how music composition and interpretation could feed visitor experience and exhibition design.