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The Museum is open! This afternoon we hosted #acoustics student Helen in Japan, who spent two hours listening to a history of #sound #recording!
Book your own Online Visit today at https://museumofportablesound.com/visit!
#onlinemuseum #history #SoundBeyondMusic #headphones #museum #MuseumOfPortableSound #Japan #Portsmouth
We're celebrating #InternationalMuseumDay this year with an online #Relaxation Listening Tour!
Get full details and Eventbrite tickets at our website:
https://museumofportablesound.com/relax/
#wellness #IMD2023 #relax #listening #ListeningParty #SoundMuseum #MuseumOfPortableSound
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
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
US acoustician, MIT professor & inventor Leo Beranek using a Hush-A-Phone, a device for silencing phone calls. AT&T, who held a #monopoly over US #telephone service at the time sued against the device & lost, setting a legal precedent that eventually led to their own breakup.
#telephony #silence #acoustics #LeoBeranek #SoundBeyondMusic #MuseumOfPortableSound
If you or anyone you know (that includes you, @barackobama and @royalfamily ) can confirm the exact size of the Queen's iPod Classic's hard drive, please contact us via our official tip line: http://museumofportablesound.com/contact-us/
#QueenElizabeth #iPod #iPodClassic #HowBigIsIt #TheRoyaliPod #WeNeedAnswers #MuseumOfPortableSound
"...Parametric acoustic arrays — also referred to as directional loudspeakers or acoustic lasers — are the most plausible technology, although other ultrasound technology may be at play."
Download the full (redacted) report from https://salon.com/2023/03/29/exclusive-declassified-report-suggests-havana-syndrome-could-result-from-energy-weapon/
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#HavanaSyndrome #SonicWeapon #PortableSound #ultrasound #infrasound #acousticlaser #ParametricAcousticArrays #DirectionalLoudspeakers #report #declassified #FOIA #redacted #SonicWarfare #SoundBeyondMusic #MuseumOfPortableSound
There's never been a more critical time to support our #independent museum.
We're busier than ever, but can't get it done without more help. If you can, please consider backing us at https://www.patreon.com/museumofportablesound for as little as US$1/month to help us:
#Digitize our Physical Objects;
#Reinstall our Permanent Collection of #Sounds;
and #Revise our extensive Gallery Guide book!
#Collections #Museum #MuseumWork #MuseumOfPortableSound #SupportUs #IndependentMuseum
Our #ObjectOfTheWeek: Unopened Maxell Original UR IEC Type I Normal Bias Compact Cassette (date unknown; presumed 1990s). Detail images courtesy Museum of Portable Sound Archives.
#Maxell #CompactCassette #CassetteTape #NormalBias #MagneticTape #Cassettes #Archives #MuseumOfPortableSound #ItsOkayToBeNormal
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
'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
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
Solar Sun Visor Speaker Radio (manufacturer unknown, 1980)
#solar #SolarEnergy #SolarPower #radio #visor #headgear #80s #80sFashion #PortableSound #PortableSoundInFashion #CultureOfSound #SoundBeyondMusic #MuseumOfPortableSound
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
We've been a great place for couples to visit over the years, in person or online! Why not visit our museum with that special someone this year? Grab tickets & info here: https://www.museumofportablesound.com/visit
#ValentinesDay #ValentinesDay2023 #Listening #LoveListens #DateIdeas #DateNight #MuseumVisit #VisitUs #NowBooking #GetTickets #Destination #Museums #Museum #SoundMuseum #MuseumOfPortableSound
Our #ObjectOfTheWeek is a Creative Zen Micro (2004), a 5GB hard drive- based portable audio player that also features a built-in FM radio tuner/recorder, voice recorder & microphone. Donated by @msmarypoppers.
#MP3Player #mp3 #creative #CreativeZen #CreativeZenMicro #MuseumObject #PortableSound #MuseumOfPortableSound
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
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
Members of the U.S. Military Telegraph Corps, formed in 1861 following the outbreak of the American Civil War, pose for a photo with their telegraph machine in Wilcox Landing, Virginia, circa 1864
#telegraph #sound #military #AmericanCivilWar #Virginia #InformationWarfare #MuseumOfPortableSound #SoundBeyondMusic
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
Historically, recorded sound in museums has only been used to provide information about visual objects.
Our museum's objects are recorded sounds.
Find out what it's like to visit a true sound museum! Book a visit today at https://museumofportablesound.com/visit!
Photo: Visitors at the Science Museum, London, use a radio-powered audio tour in 1958.
#Museums #MuseumStudies #SoundStudies #VisitUs #MuseumOfPortableSound #Sounds #SoundObjects #SoundAndMuseums
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
Happy Holidays from all of us to all of you who celebrate – we hope you booked your visit to our museum in advance!
(ps – our admission's actually £15 per adult these days, in case you actually watch the video)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=89ScEQOXYSI
#BandAid1984 #HappyHolidays #VisitUs #VisitMOPS #MuseumOfPortableSound #ItsChristmasTime
Are you in #Lisbon, #Portugal this holiday season? Would you like to visit our museum IN PERSON?
We're here in beautiful Lisboa through 5 January and would be thrilled to meet you for a visit! Contact Us to arrange it: https://museumofportablesound.com/contact-us/
#PortableMuseum #PortableSound #MuseumOfPortableSound #VisitUs #WeAreOpen #OpenForTheHolidays
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
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
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
It's #BandcampFriday which means you can pick up our #AudioBook "The How & Why Wonder Book of Sound" (1962) and our museum will get 100% of the proceeds!
Pay whatever you'd like to, at this link: https://museumofportablesound.bandcamp.com/album/the-how-and-why-wonder-book-of-sound-the-audiobook
#retro #TalkingBook #Books #Book #Listen #SpokenWord #HowAndWhyWonderBook #SupportUs #Listening #Museum #SoundBeyondMusic #MuseumOfPortableSound
From now thru 1 January, get a FREE GUIDED TOUR of our museum online when you back us on Patreon for as little as US$1/month.
Get full details and back us at https://patreon.com/museumofportablesound
#museum #OnlineMuseum #FieldRecording #FieldRecordings #MuseumOfSound #SoundMuseum #SoundBeyondMusic #MuseumOfPortableSound