It's time to talk to your kids about portable sound. We can help. Book a family visit to the Museum of Portable Sound at museumofportablesound.com/visit.

#iPod #firewire #parenting #OnlineMuseum

An original Topps trading card from the first E.T. - The Extra Terrestrial card series entitled ‘The Listeners’, showing the inside of a US govt surveillance van (1982). Donated by Ryan Sarnowski.

#ET #StevenSpielberg #surveillance #TradingCards #listening #eavesdropping

The Museum is open! Yesterday we had the pleasure of hosting a pair of visitors who listened to our entire gallery of #glitches - and here are their reactions!

Book your own visit at https://museumofportablesound.com/visit!

#glitch #noise #iPod #FireAlarm #art #sound #museum #SoundMuseum

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

#TomCruise #MiniDisc #mouth #MissionImpossible #SoundBeyondMusic

Roger Payne, conservationist and popularizer of whale song, dies aged 88

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/jun/14/roger-payne-whale-song-biologist-dies

#RogerPayne #Whalesong #bioacoustics

Decent overview of legendary field recordist Bernie Krause's work:

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2023/jun/14/bernie-krause-sound-ecologist-disappearing-world

#fieldrecording #phonography #BernieKrause

Spotify fined SEK 58 million by Swedish regulator for violating GDPR – specifically, how Spotify handles users' personal data and its customers' access to the information

https://www.engadget.com/spotify-has-been-fined-54-million-for-violating-gdpr-data-rules-172036418.html

#Spotify #UserData #GDPR #StopRentingMusic

"New communications system uses 'ray guns' to transmit voices secretly and silently. Sending and receiving units are shaped like guns, which are aimed at each other for transmission. Words spoken into gun are converted into infrared radiation, transmitted to receiver. It converts radiation back to sound. Units have three-mile range."

Experimental technology apparently being tested by the ever-trustworthy Minneapolis police. Science World Scholastic magazine, vol. 2, n. 3 (1 March 1961) #raygun

“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