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  1. “If the [aerophones] were used for hunting, then this is the earliest evidence of the use of #sound in hunting,” said Hamudi Khalaily, an archaeologist at the Israel Antiquities Authority

    gizmodo.com/ancient-bird-bones

    #Archaeology #aerophones #flutes #SoundBeyondMusic

  2. 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

  3. 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

  4. 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

  5. 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

  6. 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

  7. 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

  8. 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

  9. 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 museumofportablesound.com/visi!

    #StuderA807 #StuderA807Mki #OnlineMuseum #TapeRecorder #ReelToReel #TapeMachine #Listening #Sound #CultureOfSound #SoundBeyondMusic #MuseumOfPortableSound

  10. 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

  11. 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

  12. 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

  13. 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

  14. 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

  15. 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

  16. 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 museumofportablesound.com/visi.

    #Bells #Clocks #SoundMuseum #CultureOfSound #SoundBeyondMusic #FieldRecording #Phonography #Joy #MuseumVisit

  17. 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: museumofportablesound.com/visi

    #visitor2000 #2000thvisitor #congratulations #manila #thephilippines #onlinevisit #museumvisit #cultureofsound #soundbeyondmusic #museumofportablesound

  18. 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

  19. Our museum is chock-full of more than 300 unknown listening pleasures for you to take in during your visit!

    Why not book a ticket to the Museum of Portable Sound today? Everything you need to know about how it works is right here: museumofportablesound.com/visi

    #sound #waveforms #SoundMuseum #SoundBeyondMusic #JoyDivision #VisitUs #Museum

  20. Volcanologist Katia Krafft listens to the sizzling of a cooled piece of lava at Nyiragongo in Zaire, 1973, in a scene from 2022 documentary Fire of Love.

    #volcanoes #volcanology #DemocraticepublicOfCongo #Africa #SoundBeyondMusic #KatiaKrafft #FireOfLove #listening #Earth

  21. 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

  22. Harvard University anechoic chamber radar tests with an intercontinental ballistic missile. Photo by Ralph Morse (1963).

    #AnechoicChamber #Silence #Radar #ICBM #SoundBeyondMusic

  23. These 19th cent Turkish wooden bath clogs were worn by women to avoid slipping on the floor of the hammam, or bath house, used by Muslims to bathe before Friday prayers. Their Arabic name, #qabqab, derives from the clacking #noise they made on the marble floors.

    You can see this pair of Qabqabs in the Islamic gallery of the British Museum in London.

    #SoundBeyondMusic #IslamicCulture #Islam #Hammam #clogs #shoes #footwear #BritishMuseum

  24. “[Investors] were concerned that SoundHound does not have the heart to let go of its people.” – SoundHound CEO in email to staff explaining redundancies

    Voice #AI Company SoundHound Lays Off Nearly Half Its Staff:

    gizmodo.com/soundhound-lays-of

    #SoundHound #TechBros #SoundBeyondMusic

  25. Cook donated his entire recorded output to @smithsonian
    , now part of the Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives:
    sova.si.edu/record/CFCH.COOK

    Thx to @obsoletemediauk
    & the Preservation Sound blog
    for some of the images & info.

    #stereo #binaural #audio #history #SoundHistory #SoundBeyondMusic