#MuseumOfPortableSound

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".

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6 months ago

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

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.

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6 months ago

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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6 months ago

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.

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6 months ago

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.

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6 months ago

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

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6 months ago

"...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

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6 months ago

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

An advert that's mostly just text – the same text that's in the body of our Toot. There are three pictures: one shows documentation photographs of objects in our collections, including an Edison wax cylinder, the world's 2nd MP3 player, a spool of recording wire from the 1940s, a 1960s portable reel-to-reel tape recorder, and a Nintendo DS game cartridge that replicates a 1970s Korg synthesiser.
A second image is a glowing green waveform of an object in our Permanent Collection of Sounds.
The third image is a closeup of a two-page spread from our Gallery Guide book, which is currently almost 300 pages. We expect the revised edition will be more than 400 pages.

And yes, I really do need help. I'm struggling to find a job and receive no outside funding. I live off my Patreon earnings as well as keep the museum going with them. And the museum's Gift Shop was just shut down for no reason so I'll be earning less money next month than I have in years.

Please, if you can help at all, no matter how little, I would be extremely grateful. If you can't, I totally understand – everyone is struggling right now!

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6 months ago

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

A garish pink, red & green plastic wrapped Compact Cassette tape sits on top of a tiny white pedestal underneath a round-topped glass vitrine.

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7 months ago

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.

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7 months ago

'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."

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7 months ago

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.

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7 months ago

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.

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7 months ago

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)

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7 months ago

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

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7 months ago

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

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8 months ago

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

A small, handheld MP3 player – about the size of a compact cassette – displayed inside a glass vitrine. The face of the MP3 player is deep blue, while its back is bright white.

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8 months ago

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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8 months ago

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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8 months ago

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

Closeup view of US Military Telegraph Corpsman sitting beneath a makeshift tent. A white man with a dark beard, he wears a round brimmed hat and his right arm leans against a crate on top of which sits a telegraph machine, which the man looks at.

The uncropped photo of US Military Telegraph Corpsmen sitting on the battlefield. Three of them sit beneath a makeshift tent. To the the left of the tent, another soldier stands next to a horse. To the right of the tent, a fifth man sits atop what looks to be a cart for a movable cannon or other field artillery.

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8 months ago

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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8 months ago

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

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9 months ago

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

A 19th Century style portrait shows our Chief Curator in formal jacket and spats lifting a red velvet curtain to reveal the Museum of Portable Sound's iPhone 4S. A headline says "Back Open For Visits: Our Chief Curator is ready to guide you through our collections!" Various sound-related objects are at his feet, including a box of cassette tapes, an old-style bicycle horn, a portable CD player, a boom box, and a giant conch shell.

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9 months ago

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

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9 months ago

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

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10 months ago

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

A map shows a humpback whale off the eastern coast of Australia. The whale has "sound waves" emanating out of it. A line tracing a path eastward moves from the whale to the islands of New Caledonia, then Tonga, then American Samoa, then the Cook Islands, and finally French Polynesia. A bibliographic entry reads: Garland, et al. 'Dynamic Horizontal Cultural Transmission of Humpback Whale Song at the Ocean Basin Scale'. Current Biology 2011, 21 (8), 687–691. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2011.03.019.

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10 months ago

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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10 months ago

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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10 months ago

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

A very retro-styled woman with giant retro-looking headphones and a glassy-eyed look on her face listens to a reel-to-reel tape recorder next to a floating image of the cover of The How and Why Wonder Book of Sound under the headline "It's Bandcamp Friday!"

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10 months ago

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

A screenshot of one of our Online Visitors listening to the sound of a pink river dolphin recorded in the Amazon River in Brazil by Dr Leah Barclay. The listener looks overwhelmed by how cute the dolphin sounds, showing just how enjoyable a visit to our museum can be. The rest of the image includes the same text as this Toot, as well as the URL of our Patreon account.

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10 months ago

A photo of the main characters of the 1985 John Hughes film The Breakfast Club. Written over each character is a recorded audio format representing each character's personality. From left to right:

John Bender (Judd Nelson): Cassettes on a Boombox
Andrew Clark (Emilio Estevez): CDs on a Car DiscMan
Allison Reynolds (Ally Sheedy): 78s on an Antique Victrola
Claire Standish (Molly Ringwald): Spotify on an iPhone
Brian Johnson (Anthony Michael Hall): MiniDiscs on a home component system

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10 months ago

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

A meme-ified version of a Spotify Wrapped statistics screen which says:

"You spent 525,600 minutes this year giving Daniel Ek more money to invest in the military-industrial complex"

A screenshot of a tweet by @whateverjewel, the unpaid intern who says she created the interactive story version of Spotify Wrapped and was never paid for it.

Her original tweet says: "i really invented the spotify wrapped story concept as an intern project in 2019 and they havent looked back since LMAO"

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10 months ago

The Sony TC-2850SD (1973) was the world's first stereo portable compact cassette recorder. Its portability, high quality, and relative affordability sparked the 'Namaroku boom' of amateur field recording across Japan in the 1970s, with people collecting sounds of transportation, wildlife, etc.

#TapeRecorder #Sony #Namaroku #FieldRecording #CompactCassette #Stereo #Japan #PortableSound #SoundBeyondMusic #MuseumOfPortableSound

A Japanese leaflet advertising the Sony TC-2850SD.

An overhead view of the Sony TC-2850SD stereo compact cassette recorder.

A side view of the Sony TC-2850SD tape recorder, showing its tape compartment door open and the input/output options.

A Sony catalogue image of the TC-2850SD showing off the optional leather shoulder strap that could be used to take the recorder into the field.

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10 months ago

Thru the end of 2022, anyone who signs up to back us on Patreon (for as little as US$1/month!) gets a FREE Guided Tour of our museum!

If you've been curious to see what visiting our museum is like, this is a great way to find out – and it helps us stay open!

https://patreon.com/museumofportablesound

Questions? Ask away!

#Patreon #GuidedTour #Free #FreeGuidedTour #MuseumTour #Museum #Museums #MuseumOfPortableSound #WeNeedYourHelp #SupportUs #Help

A parody of the movie poster for The Beatles' Help! – featuring four versions of our Museum Director standing on top of the word "HELP!" instead of the Beatles. Captions read:

• Private Visits
• Public Talks
• Online Content
• Heritage Preservation

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10 months ago

We've got two BRAND NEW designs in our #GiftShop today – & they're 30-60% OFF!

Check out our custom WinAmp Playlist tees, stickers, greeting cards etc: https://www.redbubble.com/shop/ap/133593987

And our Harry Caul Action Figure: https://www.redbubble.com/shop/ap/133594578

#ShopNow!!

#Winamp #TheConversation #HarryCaul #GiftIdeas #Tshirts #GreetingCards #Stickers #Notebooks #MuseumGiftShop #MuseumOfPortableSound

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10 months ago

Our #ObjectOfTheWeek: Ever Ready Batrymax B114 (1947), 1,5 & 69 volt. Used for powering portable radios, these batteries had to be wire-connected by the user in radios like the Marconiphone P17B.

#EverReady #EverReadyBattery #Batrymax #radio #PortableSound #SoundBeyondMusic #MuseumOfPortableSound #batteries #battery #power #voltage #1940s #1950s

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10 months ago

One minute each of White, Pink & Brown Noise from our Permanent Collection of Sounds.

Book your visit NOW to hear them: museumofportablesound.com/visit

#whitenoise #pinknoise #brownnoise #soundspectrum #noisespectrum #waveforms #MuseumOfPortableSound #SoundMuseum #sounds #soundobjects #PermanentCollection

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10 months ago

Happy #CyberMonday to all those who celebrate.

Now go buy something at our Gift Shop: museumofportablesound.com/giftshop

#Cybermen #GiftShop #MuseumGiftShop #Museum #museumstudies #DoctorWho #TombOfTheCybermen #Mondas #Telos #iPhone4S #iPhone #SoundMuseum #MuseumOfSound #MuseumOfPortableSound #Shopping #SupportUs

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10 months ago

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

A cat is rigorously bounced up and down while it lies on top of a subwoofer playing a bass-heavy thumping rhythm. The cat seemingly ignores the fact that it is bouncing up and down, nonchalantly licking its fur as if everything in life is perfectly normal.

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10 months ago

Back in September, a chapter on the history of #sound and #museums written by our Director & Chief Curator John Kannenberg was published in The Oxford Handbook of Museum Archaeology, edited by Alice Stevenson.

It includes a section on some of the sounds in our museum's Archaeology Gallery.

Find the book here: https://global.oup.com/academic/product/the-oxford-handbook-of-museum-archaeology-9780198847526

#archaeology #OxfordHandbook #museumarchaeology #writing #publication #waveforms #MuseumOfPortableSound

A white man's hand holding a copy of the book The Oxford Handbook of Museum Archaeology, edited by Alice Stevenson.

The Oxford Handbook of Museum Archaeology open to Chapter 16: "Listening to Archaeology Museums" written by John Kannenberg, the Museum of Portable Sound's Director & Chief Curator.

Chapter 16 section 5: "The Archaeology Gallery at the Museum of Portable Sound"

Black and white illustrations of waveforms of two sounds in the Museum of Portable Sound's Archaeology Gallery, as they appear in the Oxford Handbook of Museum Archaeology.