Museum of Portable SoundTom Cruise with a MiniDisc in his mouth in Mission: Impossible (dir: Brian DePalma, 1996)
#TomCruise #MiniDisc #mouth #MissionImpossible #SoundBeyondMusic
“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
"Throw Your Voice" – Advertisement in Marvel Comics' Captain America, vol. 1, No. 107, November 1968.
#ThrowYourVoice #ventriloquism #CaptainAmerica #MarvelComics #Advertising #SoundBeyondMusic
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
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
"...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
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
