Mastodawn

Global Museum Apr 4, 2024

During his captivity in Changi gaol Private Mark Flew formed a friendship with a Dutch prisoner. The two men created two identical rings from an opal the Dutch prisoner had, to ensure the two friends would recognise each other should they met again in the future. #objectoftheweek #Opal #Changi #WWII

@AWMemorial

Gregorios Kythreotis Apr 30, 2023

RT @SoaneMuseum: #ObjectOfTheWeek Joseph Michael Gandy, perspective view of the dome area within the home and museum of John Soane at 13 Lincoln’s Inn Fields, c.1813. Experience the Museum in this atmospheric light at one of our lates http://www.soane.org/lates 2018-11-22 17:00:01 UTC

Soane Lates

Museum of Portable Sound Apr 11, 2023

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

Museum of Portable Sound Mar 31, 2023

Just arrived here at Museum of Portable Sound Laboratories: a specially designed archival box to store our newly-acquired Edison Gold-Moulded 'Black Wax' Cylinder (see this week's #ObjectOfTheWeek post), courtesy an anonymous donor! We're extremely grateful for this bit of kit. 🙏 🎁 😍

Museum of Portable Sound Mar 20, 2023

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

Museum of Portable Sound Mar 7, 2023

Our #ObjectOfTheWeek is also a #NewAcquisition for our #ResearchLibrary! On Recording: A Manifesto, by musician, producer, studio co-owner, and thinker Chris Schlarb is a beautiful 50-page philosophical treatise on the art of recording that’s focused on intent instead of gear. He & his wife Adriana opened Big Ego Studios n Long Beach, California in 2015 (the same year we opened our museum), but Chris has spent a lifetime absorbing recording knowledge.

#ChrisSchlarb #BigEgo #book

Museum of Portable Sound Feb 27, 2023

Our #ObjectOfTheWeek is a #NewAcquisition: The 2nd MP3 Player in the World, the Diamond Rio PMP300 (Sept 1998, after S.Korea’s MPMan in March) – the 1st commercially successful MP3 player.

The Rio provoked the 1st RIAA lawsuit trying to kill MP3s (they lost bc their suit was based on the misunderstanding that the Rio was a recording device).

Even after 25 years, our Rio still plays the (terrible) files on its built-in 32MB storage.
#diamondrio #pmp300 #mp3player #mp3 #90s #portablesound

Museum of Portable Sound Feb 23, 2023

Our #ObjectOfTheWeek is our first #NewAcquisition of 2023: an IBM 224 ‘Executary’ Dictation Unit (1965) in a leather carrying case, for allegedly smart white men to record their thoughts on the go - onto large ‘dictabelts’- for their women secretaries to listen to & type up. (1/2)

#dictation #VoiceRecorder #1960s #dictabelt #IBM #BusinessMarket

North Herts Museum Feb 15, 2023

#objectoftheweek William Ratcliffe captured this scene depicting the construction of a defensive shelter building on land between houses. Dating to around 1938 or 1939 this part finished work shows how ordinary residential streets in #Letchworth or #Baldock prepared for #war.

Museum of Portable Sound Feb 7, 2023

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