"You NEED a Headset" – well, in 1925 you actually did if you wanted to listen to a radio, which weren't yet powerful enough to be heard via a speaker or horn.
#headphones #radio #SoundStudies #Brandes #CultureOfSound #CrystalRadio
#cultureofsound — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #cultureofsound, aggregated by home.social.
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This year's #InternationalMuseumDay (18 May) has the theme Museums, Sustainability & Well-Being – so we're offering a special expanded online version of our museum's Relaxation-themed listening tour! Details coming soon...
#IMD2023 #Museums4WellBeing #Relaxation #Listening #OnlineTour #SoundMuseum #Sound #CultureOfSound #SoundBeyondMusic #MuseumOfPortableSound
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Our #ObjectOfTheWeek is also a #NewAcquisition: How To Give Yourself A Stereo Check-Out by Decca Records (1967).
This 12” LP was not only a standard test record of the time, but is also a mini crash course in important audio concepts like wow & flutter, Sound coloration, channel phasing and more.
#LPRecords #stereo #records #VinylRecords #WowAndFlutter #ChannelPhasing #SoundColoration #decca #DeccaRecords #TestRecord #CultureOfSound #SoundBeyondMusic #MuseumOfPortableSound
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This past weekend we welcomed a pair of visitors in Germany who listened to some of our recordings of classic audio gear in operation - like this 1981 Studer A 807 Mk 1 #tape machine we recorded at The Keep Archives in Brighton, UK in 2019.
Book your own visit TODAY at https://museumofportablesound.com/visit!
#StuderA807 #StuderA807Mki #OnlineMuseum #TapeRecorder #ReelToReel #TapeMachine #Listening #Sound #CultureOfSound #SoundBeyondMusic #MuseumOfPortableSound
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We've been asking people to sit down, shut up, and listen since 2015. Literally.
We're a museum you actually listen to, filled with sounds from around the world and across time.
Visit us in person or online. Book now at https://museumofportablesound.com/visit!
#museum #sound #listening #recording #FieldRecording #history #CultureOfSound #SoundStudies #SitDown #ShutUp #Listen
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'Japanese Otacoustic Fan' (1882). Developed at a Tokyo institute for the deaf, these fans of lacquered sheets used bone conduction to amplify sound.
#Hearing #HearingAid #HearingLoss #JapaneseDesign #BoneConduction #Otacoustic #Fan #Amplification #Skull #SoundBeyondMusic #CultureOfSound #MuseumOfPortableSound
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Dutch painter Nicolaes Maes (1634-1693) was a student of Rembrandt, who worked in Amsterdam and Dordrecht. One of his signature motifs is the eavesdropper, seen here in The Eavesdropping Man (1655) & The Listening Wife (1656).
#listening #eavesdropping #DutchPainting #ArtHistory #painting #listeners #GenrePainting #CultureOfSound #SoundBeyondMusic -
Marking 365 days since the Russian invasion of Ukraine by re-visiting the second object ever donated to our Physical Objects Collection: a 1988 Ukrainian AM/FM radio donated by Dr Kate Yonova-Doing, which was handed over to our care by her husband Karel on 16 Dec 2015. We express solidarity with the Ukrainian people and hope a peaceful resolution ends this horrific war soon.
#Ukraine #radio #AMFM #PhysicalObjectsCollection #CultureOfSound #SoundBeyondMusic #peace #NoWar #MuseumOfPortableSound
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Solar Sun Visor Speaker Radio (manufacturer unknown, 1980)
#solar #SolarEnergy #SolarPower #radio #visor #headgear #80s #80sFashion #PortableSound #PortableSoundInFashion #CultureOfSound #SoundBeyondMusic #MuseumOfPortableSound
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Generously donated, along with a vinyl wallet filled with extra dictabelts and index cards, by Thomas Vogel. (2/2)
#ibm #executary #dictation #dictaphone #recording #voicerecorder #dictabelt #retrotech #obsoletetechnology #cultureofsound #soundbeyondmusic #museumofportablesound
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Yesterday we welcomed an online visitor in Minneapolis (our first to find us via Mastodon!) to our museum, who listened to our entire gallery of Bells & Clocks – including the bells at #WestminsterAbbey
on Christmas Day, 2014!Travel in time and space! Book your online visit at http://museumofportablesound.com/visit.
#Bells #Clocks #SoundMuseum #CultureOfSound #SoundBeyondMusic #FieldRecording #Phonography #Joy #MuseumVisit
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Ear-shaped earrings designed by Daniel Roseberry for the Spring/Summer 2020 & 2021 collections of Elsa Schiaparelli.
#fashion #earrings #ears #listening #CultureOfSound #SoundBeyondMusic #SurrealistFashion #ElsaSchiaparelli #DanielRoseberry #FashionDesign #Accessories
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CONGRATULATIONS to Dayang in Manila, the Philippines, who this morning became our 2,000th visitor!! Dayang will receive a package of FABULOUS PRIZES* in celebration of this major milestone in our museum’s history.
Book your own visit today at: https://museumofportablesound.com/visit
#visitor2000 #2000thvisitor #congratulations #manila #thephilippines #onlinevisit #museumvisit #cultureofsound #soundbeyondmusic #museumofportablesound
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Digitizing a ‘voice letter’ dictaphone recording from 1953 to add to our Permanent Collection of Sounds! #dictaphone #78rpm #vinyl #vinylcollection #1950s #audio #sound #museumcollection #museum #soundmuseum #cultureofsound #soundbeyondmusic #museumofportablesound
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While in Portugal over the holidays, our Acquisitions Team collected sounds of the French garden @fundacao_serralves for our museum’s new gallery of Gardens, Parks & Memorials, coming to our 4th Edition Gallery Guide.
#fieldrecording #fieldrecordings #phonography #soundobjects #soundmuseum #serralves #garden #frenchgarden #cultureofsound #soundbeyondmusic #museumofsound #museumofportablesound
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After a relaxing – but no less productive – holiday in Portugal, we're back open and ready to offer Guided Tours again, online and in person!
Book your personal visit to our museum at: https://museumofportablesound.com/visit
#Museum #SoundMuseum #MuseumOfPortableSound #CultureOfSound #SoundHistory #SoundStudies #WeAreOpen #Back #NowBooking #BookNow #OnlineMuseum
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Our 2022 Book We Stuck the Most Post-Its Inside was, hands down, Sounds Wild and Broken by David George Haskell. This marvel of a book reinvigorated the work we’re doing on the revised 4th Edition of the museum’s Gallery Guide & provided many new perspectives on sounds & listening. Can’t recommend it enough.
#DavidGeorgeHaskell #SoundsWildAndBroken #research #DeepTime #nature #NatureWriting #book #sound #listening #listen #CultureOfSound #HistoryOfSound #SoundStudies #SoundBeyondMusic
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New humpback whale "songs" tend to originate in an incubation area off the eastern coast of Australia, then spread eastward across the Pacific – evidence of cultural transmission.
#Whales #WhaleSong #HumpbackWhales #Australia #CulturalTransmission #culture #PacificOcean #CultureOfSound #SoundBeyondMusic #Bioacoustics #UnderwaterLife #MuseumOfPortableSound
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Advert for a Motorola portable AM radio with rotating antenna handle (1955)
#radio #PortableSound #AMradio #motorola #handle #rotate #rotating #CultureOfSound #SoundBeyondMusic #1950sDesign
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Researchers have found humans are able to glean insights into the feelings of animals including pigs, horses and goats based on their vocalisations
#AnimalSounds #Nature #Communication #InterspeciesCommunication #Vocalizations #Vocalisations #SoundBeyondMusic #CultureOfSound
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Earplug Earrings, invented by Major S. W. Humphrey, Mayor of Lowestoft. Published in The Daily Mirror, 23 October 1940.
#earplugs #ears #earrings #jewelry #noise #DailyMirror #CultureOfSound #SoundBeyondMusic #MuseumOfPortableSound
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Second Generations: the first redesigns of the Sony Walkman (1981) and the Apple iPod (2003).
#Walkman #SonyWalkman #iPod #Apple #PortableSound #redesign #SecondChance #DoOver #TryAgain #ProductDesign #CultureOfSound #VisualCultureOfSound #MuseumOfPortableSound
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The Breakfast Club as Audio Formats
#metonymy #memes #80smovies #TheBreakfastClub #AudioFormats #JuddNelson #EmilioEstevez #AllySheedy #MollyRingwald #AnthonyMichaelHall #cassettes #boombox #CompactDiscs #CarDiscman #78rpm #vinyl #victrola #antique #spotify #iphone #minidiscs #ComponentSystem #CultureOfSound #SoundBeyondMusic #MuseumOfPortableSound
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This year while you spent thousands of minutes giving Daniel Ek more money to withhold from musical artists and invest in military AI technology, Spotify spent another year not paying the intern they stole the concept for Spotify Wrapped from
#SpotifyWrapped #SpotifyWrapped2022 #DanielEk #PayArtists #AI #MilitaryIndustrialComplex #billionaire #BillionaireLifestyle #DealWithIt #streaming #StreamingAudio #StreamingMusic #CultureOfSound #MuseumOfPortableSound
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The world’s first portable electric megaphone was produced by Japanese company TOA in 1954.
#megaphone #bullhorn #electric #electricity #portable #PortableSound #TOA #1950s #1950sfashion #Japan #amplification #amplifier #loud #sound #CultureOfSound #SoundBeyondMusic
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Warren Beatty starred in a big-budget (but unsuccessful) Hollywood film version of Dick Tracy in 1990.
In 2018, crowdfunding led to a mass-produced replica of the 2-Way Wrist Radio Beatty wore in the film. (3/3)
#DickTracy #replica #collectible #collectibles #WarrenBeatty #crowdfunding #comics #ComicStrip #Chestergould #ComicsArt #broadcast #radio #telecom #CultureOfSound #SoundBeyondMusic
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This viral Subwoofer Cat video (2011) proves both the physical power of sonic vibration and the feline capacity for self-absorption
#subwoofer #cat #catlife #subwoofercat #vibration #physics #cats #physicality #grooming #selfabsorption #ignore #acoustics #cultureofsound #lowfrequency #soundwaves #pressurewave #spl #soundpressure #dontcare #soundbeyondmusic #viral #museumofportablesound
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We'd love to have to Photoshop this again: we've got 24 Patreon supporters.
Help us make it to 30 by the end of the year:
https://www.patreon.com/museumofportablesound
We give our supporters exclusive updates on our major projects, like our current work to produce the 4th edition of our Gallery Guide: a 300+ page full-colour book that not only guides our visitors through our Permanent Collection of Sounds, but also acts a primer for the world of sonic culture.
#patreon #Elvis #parody #supportus #independentmuseum #onlinemuseum #cultureofsound #soundbeyondmusic #museumofportablesound
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Celebrating the anniversary of the first airplane to ever fly at twice the speed of sound: the Douglas D-558-2 Skyrocket, piloted by Scott Crossfield, achieved Mach 2 on 20 November 1953. The plane is now on display at the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum in Washington D.C.
#SpeedOfSound #mach2 #DouglasD558 #skyrocket #smithsonian #NationalAirandSpaceMuseum #speed #soundbarrier #rocket #cultureofsound #soundbeyondmusic #museumofportablesound
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The beauty of being both portable and accessible online means that our museum has been visited inside people's homes, outdoors and indoors, by the young and the young-at-heart. It's listening fun for anyone, anywhere!
Book your own visit now at:
👇 http://museumofportablesound.com/visit!#listening #sound #museum #online #offline #PortableSound #headphones #SoundMuseum #MuseumOfSound #MuseumOfPortableSound #sounds #SoundStudies #MuseumStudies #FieldRecording #phonography #performance #CultureOfSound #SoundBeyondMusic #curation #CuratorialPractice #culture #heritage #SonicHeritage #IntangibleHeritage #fun #interactive #collaboration #conversation #visit #museums #PortableMuseum
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What kind of research does it take to create & maintain a museum of sounds? Check out the now-public Museum of Portable Sound Group Library on Zotero, where we've indexed over 1,500 of the sources we've gathered over the past seven years:
https://www.zotero.org/groups/4600329/museum_of_portable_sound
#library #research #sound #sounds #museums #curation #science #humanities #naturalhistory #artandculture #cultureofsound #zotero