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Tom Cruise with a MiniDisc in his mouth in Mission: Impossible (dir: Brian DePalma, 1996)

#TomCruise #MiniDisc #mouth #MissionImpossible #SoundBeyondMusic

During the "hanging from the ceiling of a deadly room" scene in the original 1996 Mission: Impossible film, a sweaty, dangling Tom Cruise looks straight into camera (wearing some super-90s-styled wire frame glasses) with a clear plastic, unbranded Sony MiniDic clutched between his teeth.

“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

https://gizmodo.com/ancient-bird-bones-fashioned-flutes-levant-1850523083

#Archaeology #aerophones #flutes #SoundBeyondMusic

"Throw Your Voice" – Advertisement in Marvel Comics' Captain America, vol. 1, No. 107, November 1968.

#ThrowYourVoice #ventriloquism #CaptainAmerica #MarvelComics #Advertising #SoundBeyondMusic

A black and white line drawing on low-quality newsprint. The entire surface has a faded magenta dot pattern on it, tilted at an angle, as was customary with printed images using the halftone dot system. A headline reads "THROW YOUR VOICE". An illustration on the left shows a white man and woman looking shocked as they each place one hand on a medium-sized cardboard box. Lines radiate from inside the box containing the words "Help" and "Let Me Out". In the foreground, a precocious little white boy holds his finger up to his lips and he smiles. Text to the right reads: "Throw your voice into trunks, behind doors, everywhere. Instrument fits in your mouth out of sight. Fool teacher, friends, family. Free book on 'How To Become A Ventriloquist.' No. 137. 25cents" (editor's note: so, I guess the book wasn't really free then).

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

Screenshot of a Zoom meeting. A young woman with long blonde hair and headphones is smiling in one frame, an old bald white man with beard is in another frame, also wearing headphones and holding up an Edison Gold Molded cylinder recording. Below these two frames, a green waveform can be seen labelled "First Recording of a Human Voice".

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 customised version of the 2023 International Museum Day poster. The original poster features an illustration of a crystal ball on a stand shaped like a tree, and inside the ball is a nature scene featuring plants, flowers, a rabbit, a flying bird, and a sunny clear blue sky. A rope swing is attached to the tree stand, on which sits a green-skinned girl happily swinging.

Our custom version adds a pair of bright orange Sony Walkman headphones from the 1980s stuck on the outside of the crystal ball as if the ball is listening to them. The inside of the crystal ball looks to be vibrating with ripples of sounds. The girl on the swing is wearing large headphones.

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

A 12-inch LP record sitting on a shelf next to a pair of vintage 1970s KOSS stereo headphones (made of beige plastic and metal) and an EMI dictaphone audio recorder (a green metal box). The LP record's cover is a blurry photograph of an abstract pattern of coloured lights on a black background shot through gauze to make the lights look fuzzy. On the shelf in front of the LP record is a measuring stick marked in centimeters for scale.

The track listing from the LP record:

SIDE ONE

1. INTRODUCTION

2. LEFT-RIGHT CHANNEL IDENTIFICATION, LOUDSPEAKER BALANCE, AND CHANNEL PHASING.

3. MONOPHONIC MUSIC (FOR LOUDSPEAKER BALANCE AND PHASING). (Aldrich)

4. TONE CONTROLS

5. SOUND COLOURATION

6. STEREOPHONIC MUSIC (Aldrich)

7. GROOVE-JUMPING AND DISTORTION

8. SILENT GROOVES

SIDE TWO

1. LIVE VERSUS RECORDED SOUND

2. WOW AND FLUTTER

3. ANTI-SKATING BAND (WITH UNGROOVED SECTION)

4, CROSSTALK

5. MUSICAL SHOW-PIECE; EXTRACT FROM ‘‘HARY JANOS’’ (Kodaly), Istvan Kertesz conducting the LSO.

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

Black and white photo of an elderly white man in large plastic-framed eyeglasses holding an old-school telephone receiver up to his ear. The speaking end of the phone is encased in a large black plastic chamber that also covers the man's mouth. The spiral-shaped phone cord juts out of a hole in the side of the black plastic chamber, the Hush-a-Phone.

"...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/
(4/4)

#HavanaSyndrome #SonicWeapon #PortableSound #ultrasound #infrasound #acousticlaser #ParametricAcousticArrays #DirectionalLoudspeakers #report #declassified #FOIA #redacted #SonicWarfare #SoundBeyondMusic #MuseumOfPortableSound

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

A collage of multiple images: at the top, two screenshots from a Zoom meeting online. On the left is our Director, wearing headphones. On the right is a married white couple, a bald man wearing headphones and a woman with shoulder-length brown hair wearing earbuds. Below the screenshots, a photo of a large reel to reel tape machine with one of its reels spinning. A hand in the foreground holds a digital audio recorder to capture the sound of the reels spinning. A waveform image of the sound of the recording is superimposed over it, glowing green.

'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

Black and white line art illustration of a human head and hand. The skull and teeth are visible inside a border line of the head. Between the teeth, a flat piece of card is being bitten down on; the card is long and rectangular, and is attached to a handle being held in the illustrated hand. A pair of strings tied to the card on either side of the mouth are also tied to the top of the handle, and this tension makes the long card bend in a crescent shape. A caption below reads "Fig. 30. Japanese Otacoustic Fan." Handwritten next to the bent card of the fan are the words: "CASWELL, HAZARD & CO | W.F. FORD."

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

A 17th Century oil painting of a middle aged man wearing a hat, standing on a staircase inside a house. He holds a finger up to his lips to "shush" as he looks directly at the viewer. Beyond the staircase is the entrance to another room, where a man and woman can be seen sitting next to each other, having a private conversation.

A 17th Century oil painting of a woman in a red dress and grey apron, standing on a small staircase inside a house. She holds a finger up to her lips to "shush" as she looks somewhat indirectly at the viewer. Beyond the staircase is the entrance to another room, where a man and woman can be seen sitting next to each other; the man's right hand is touching the left breast of the woman, and she appears to be smiling.

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

Two white men – one with long hair in a ponytail, the other bald with a greying beard and glasses – stand in a harshly lit dark room. The bald man – our Director – holds a beige rectangular box-shaped radio, a little larger than an average hardcover book. The man with the pony tail – Karel Doing, husband of the radio's donor – holds the bag he used to carry the radio across London to hand it over.

Closeup of the Ukrainian radio as it appears now. The top two thirds of the all-plastic device is devoted to a single mono speaker. Beneath the speaker, a single circular dial embossed with a musical eight note sits in a recessed indentation in the body of the radio. Alongside the indentation, a directional arrow points clockwise indicating the volume will increase when the dial is turned to the right. The radio needs a good cleaning, which we should finally get around to doing this year.

Solar Sun Visor Speaker Radio (manufacturer unknown, 1980)

#solar #SolarEnergy #SolarPower #radio #visor #headgear #80s #80sFashion #PortableSound #PortableSoundInFashion #CultureOfSound #SoundBeyondMusic #MuseumOfPortableSound

A bright yellow sun visor with a thick grey foam lining around the inside of the headband sits in a white space. The front of the head band portion of the visor reads "Solar Visor" in a VERY 80s typeface. The top of the visor portion has a large grey rectangular panel – a solar energy cell – which reads "Solar POWER" in what looks like an LCD readout. A radio antenna extends up from the visor just next to the solar panel. The product's original box sits behind the visor, with an awkward photo of a young girl wearing a red version of the same visor.

Closeup of the FM receiver built into the visor. It's built into a yellow plastic handle that hangs down over the wearer's right ear. There is a tuning knob on the outside of the handle, and a textured black dial (presumably for powering on/off and volume control) peeking up out of the top of the yellow handle.

A wide shot of the visor with its antenna retracted. It rests inside a sculpted groove inside the visor just above the solar panel for stowing the antenna when not in use.

A wide shot of the visor on its own, with its antenna fully extended. It looks more than a little ridiculous, and would have done even back in 1980.

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

The wallet open to reveal a stack of vertical paper "index cards" and, on the opposite side of the wallet, large magnetic tape belts - the 'dictabelts' the IBM 224 records onto.

A white gloved hand holding the dictabelts for scale. Their length is just under twice the width of a human hand.

The white gloved hand holding up the dictabelts, now removed from inside the wallet. They are loops of material, and look like they might be big enough to fit on someone's head like a crown (or 1980s exercise headband)

#RetroGaming #Videogames #Nintendo #Pokemon #Pikachu #DenshaDeGo64 #TrainSimulator #Simulator #90sTechnology #90s #Retro #microphone #CultureOfSound #SoundBeyondMusic #MuseumOfPortableSound #Sound #SoundMuseum #MuseumOfSound

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

A screenshot from a Zoom meeting. A young woman, smiling ear to ear, is wearing headphones. A giant, ghostly, glowing waveform representing the sound of Westminster Abbey's bells appears behind her, as does a shimmering image of the abbey itself, like an image from a dream. At the bottom, the image of our museum's Director, also wearing headphones, sitting in the Museum of Portable Sound Laboratories in Southsea, Portsmouth, overjoyed to be able to share these sounds with someone who appreciates them as much as this visitor did!

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

A Black woman models a gold earring shaped like a human ear.

A white woman models a gold earring shaped like a human ear. The ear-shaped earring is itself full of piercings that contain increasingly larger hoop earrings.

A Black woman models a gold earring shaped like a human ear. The earring's earlobe is pierced and stretched, dangling down past the woman's shoulder.

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

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