The Museum of Portable Sound brings the culture of sound to the world, one listener at a time. Post-Covid, we have implemented Online Visits.
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The Museum of Portable Sound is a portable museum dedicated to portable sound, initially based in London, UK. Its permanent collection of sounds is augmented by an ongoing series of temporary exhibitions, a Physical Objects Collection, a Research Library, a Video Gallery, and extensive social media posts exploring the cross-disciplinary culture of sound. The Museum's galleries exist only as digita
l audio files on the Museum Director's mobile phone – our sounds are not available online. Visits to the Museum are in-person by appointment only (or by bumping into the Museum Director on the street). There is still no app to download. Visitors are asked to provide their own earbuds/headphones when accessing the collections in person. Museum Director & Chief Curator:
John Kannenberg
You've heard of Elf on a Shelf, now get ready for...
..R Murray Schafer on a Wafer
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The torso of Canadian composer and populariser of the term "soundscape", R Murray Schafer, rests on top of a giant Manner wafer bar. His hands hold a sign that says "Listen." He wears a big fuzzy hat. His legs are inexplicably missing.
Obviously Robin Millar has not read "Decomposed: The Political Ecology of Music" (Kyle Devine, 2019) or he would know that streaming is just as bad if not worse for the environment than vinyl, CDs, and cassettes.
The producer and disability campaigner who made hits with Sade and Everything But the Girl says it’s time records were banned to save the climate
Our is this stunning mint-in-package donation we received earlier this year from : the Sony Sports Walkman SRF-HM55 digital tuning AM/FM stereo radio from 1992! It features, according to its packaging:
• Water Resistant Sports Design
• 10 Direct Memory Presets (5 FM / 5 AM)
• Automatic Volume Limiter System
• Flexible Antenna!
Watch a video of our Chief Curator introducing our new pop-up exhibition Sounds Beyond Music at the University of Portsmouth Library by briefly describing one item from each of the show's five themed shelves of selections from our Physical Objects Collection.
A group of Palestinian men listen to records at a café in Jaffa, Palestine (early 1920s).
Photo courtesy NVIC - Netherlands-Flemish Institute in Cairo from their current exhibition ’Unsilencing Palestine’.
Teenage Engineering released this tiny, shiny new sampler the other day (which we honestly don't even give a rat's ass about because we're not a music museum), and we're only putting up a picture of it to see how many likes we can get on a post where we actually talk about Palestine.
How has the world just stood by and let the violence continue for more than a month? Sure, today is the start of a sort of cease fire (apparently they're still going to be bombing in the north, but for only 6 hours a day - yay). The people of Gaza just sat through 47 days of war crime after war crime and the international political community did nothing, while thousands of people marched in solidarity with the victims.
It just doesn't make any sense, and we're finding it harder and harder to come up with posts about sound stuff to distract our audience away from the massive humanitarian crisis caused by the ongoing oppression of the Palestinian people.
If you're still reading this far, and are able, please donate to one of these Palestinian relief funds:
Medical Aid for Palestine: map.org.uk
Islamic Relief UK: islamic-relief.org.uk
May the violence, oppression, and occupation end soon.
Visitors to our current exhibit University of Portsmouth Library might see this Dalek on the bottom shelf (dedicated to ‘Playing With Sounds’) and wonder: why is it lying on its back?
All is revealed upon reading the object label! As you can see in the second image, its original packaging boasted that this toy Dalek “GLIDES on a wave of SOUND!”
So what is this magical sound wave? It’s produced by the brushes you can see on the base of the Dalek, which, when the toy is switched on, vibrate at a rate fast enough to propel the Dalek forward on its wheels.
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/nov/21/omagh-hum-mystery-wind-lamps-subsidence
Reports of the low-frequency buzz began in September and theories range from wind to lamps to subsidence
Listen to a new podcast interview with our Director & Chief Curator for The Radio Tower, the official podcast of the Long Island Radio and Television Historical Society!
John Kannenberg is the man and the mind behind the Museum of Portable Sound. Based in Portsmouth, England, the Museum is actually found wherever John has his iPhone 4S. Visitors sit down with John, don their headphones, and enter the Museum by listening to the
Hey everybody: did you know that cassettes are BACK? (November 2023 version)
Two new books explore the history of the tape and how it helped spread hip-hop, thrash metal and experimental music around the world one mixtape at a time
Another to our : The Cell Phone Reader - Essays in Social Transformation, edited by Anandam P. Kavoori & Noah Arceneaux, is a fascinating historical document as, contrary to what its retro cover design would have you think, it was published in 2006 – the year before the unveiling of the iPhone.
As such, it's a summation of the pre-smartphone era, a time capsule to an era where it was still possible to seem technologically relevant while talking about things like pagers, and WAP meant something completely different than Cardi B's feminist neologism ("Wireless Application Protocol", for those who weren't around when it was supposedly The Future of Web Design™).
NOW OPEN!
What did smartphones replace?
Why are cassettes so popular?
Can there be such a thing as 'normal' hearing?
'Sounds Beyond Music: Selected Objects From The Museum Of Portable Sound' is now open at University of Portsmouth Library! And, you can now download a FREE PDF catalogue of the exhibit containing photos, a bibliography, and all the texts from the exhibit shelves and posters! Get your copy at https://museumofportablesound.com/soundsbeyondmusic !
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eight years ago, our museum opened to the public for the first time during its Grand Opening Gala at the London College of Communication.
It proves to be the first and – so far – only time our Director has presented the museum while wearing a tie.
Help us celebrate eight years of bringing the culture and history of sound beyond music to the world one listener at a time by booking your own personal guided tour with our Director and Chief Curator: https://museumofportablesound.com/visit
We had such a great time presenting a guided tour of the Museum of Portable Sound's Science & Technology Wing at today's Sound Matters virtual symposium at Stellenbosch University in South Africa! The people we could see during the talk seemed super engaged, and there was even applause at the end!
Nothing makes us happier than making a bunch of complete strangers have fun while learning about the culture and history of sound.
If you haven't visited our museum, do yourself a favor and book a visit (in person in Portsmouth, UK or online from anywhere in the world): https://museumofportablesound.com/visit
Some facts about our museum 'by the numbers':
2100+
Visitors met so far by our Chief Curator
400+
Sounds currently displayed in our galleries
12+
Hours it takes to listen to every sound we currently have on display
1
Staff Member.
Learn more about what we do (it's way more than just social media posts!) at https://museumofportablesound.com
We're excited to announce that our Director will be presenting an overview of our Science & Technology wing this Thursday, 9 November, as part of the panel 'Sound and Place Making' at Sound Matters, a virtual symposium hosted by the South African Research Chair in Science Communication, The Academic Citizen, and the South African Journal of Science.
The Symposium will be online 9am – 2:30pm South African Standard Time, Thursday & Friday, 9 and 10 November 2023. FREE, registration required: https://ticketwiz.co.za/72/
Bobby and his mother share a tender, brand-loyal moment in part of an advert for Kellogg's® Rice Krispies™ breakfast cereal that appeared in the 12 June 1939 issue of LIFE magazine, US.
WHAT IS "DORITOS SILENT"?: A MUSEUM OF PORTABLE SOUND INVESTIGATIVE REPORT
So there are these print ads and billboards for something called "Doritos Silent" all over the place, and we were like "WTF is this? Silent Doritos?? What are they, like, soft tortillas or something?" So we totally signed up for their mailing list and then they announced what it actually was and we're all like No. Way. It's not even a food product! It's just some Windows-only app that supposedly uses some 'A.I.' yada-yada bullsh*t to allegedly noise-cancel the sound of eating Doritos out of online video chats or gaming sessions or something and we're all like seriously? Like, don't even bother with this.
This has been a Museum of Portable Sound Investigative Report.
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On the day of his election in 1667, Pope Clement IX commissioned famed Italian sculptor & architect Gian Lorenzo Bernini to solve his chronic insomnia. Since he knew the sound of running water helped the hapless pope to sleep better, Bernini constructed the world's first known white noise machine: a wheel that struck a series of paper globes, providing an effective simulation of the sound of running water. It worked, and the pope got his first decent night's sleep in ages.
(See Riva, M.A., Cimino, V. and Sanchirico, S. (2017) ‘Gian Lorenzo Bernini’s 17th century white noise machine’, The Lancet Neurology, 16(10), p. 776).
On a scale of microphone, what are you today?
Our is a phenomenal and : the world's first MP3 player, the MPman MP-F20, from South Korean company SaeHan, first released in March 1998! Our specimen comes with its original box, manual, earbuds, SCSI cable, and certificate of authenticity (along with the original shrinkwrap, price tag, and RFID tag from where it was originally purchased in the UK for £99.99).
The MPman MP-F20 stores its MP3s on a 3.3 V 32MB SmartMedia flash memory card and runs on a single AA battery. Ours still works, and still plays its pre-loaded Corporate Grunge® music (we have yet to identify the band) as if it were yesterday.
Eagle-eyed viewers will notice the MPman's marketing slogan featured on the box art: "The world's first MP3 player in your pocket", half of which Steve Jobs ripped off for the original iPod slogan "A thousand songs in your pocket".
Swipe to see the MP-F20 stand face to face with its successor, the world's second MP3 player - the Diamond Rio PMP300 (September 1998), which almost certainly based its size, colour, and materials entirely on the MPman.
Eternal gratititude for this amazing donation from .me!
Have you ever been stuck in a public place where someone else was playing something loud on their mobile without using headphones? Wish there was a nonchalant, yet effective, way you could give that person a piece of your mind?
Well now you can, with our handy new Museum of Portable Sound Passive-Aggressive Headphone Request Cards™! Just slip this card on the seat next to the offender and your message is effortlessly – yet emphatically – delivered. Guaranteed to either finally give you the peace and quiet you crave, or start a traumatising public incident.
(The Museum of Portable Sound is not responsible for any loss, damage, or injury as a result of using this product.)
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We're proud to bring the culture of sound beyond music to the world one listener at a time – literally.
Join us in celebrating World Day for Audiovisual Heritage, a joint initiative of UNESCO and the Coordinating Council of Audiovisual Archives Associations (CCAAA).
https://www.newsweek.com/scientist-captures-birds-final-song-before-extinction-1837026
The bird was one of 21 species delisted from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's Endangered Species Act because of extinction.
Are you a bald guy who's into sound? Then you need our t-shirt.
Get the BALD SOUND GUY Tee only at the Museum of Portable Sound Gift Shop: https://www.teepublic.com/t-shirt/42413062-bald-sound-guy?store_id=2425732
Yesterday our Director attended the final DOSITS (Discovery of Sound in the Sea) webinar of 2023: How Marine Mammals Respond to Underwater Ambient Noise, presented by South African fisheries biologist and bioacoustician Dr Fannie Shabangu. Dr Shabangu gave a fascinating talk about underwater ambient noise off the southwestern coast of Africa, the Prince Edward Isles, and Antarctica – and how marine mammals have adapted their acoustic practices as a result.
He spoke about one particularly unfortunate adaptation: whales having to alter the rhythm of their calls to fit in-between loudly cracking Antarctic ice, as climate change continues its melting of the Earth's poles.
Many thanks to everyone at DOSITS, a research institute developed by the University of Rhode Island’s (URI) Graduate School of Oceanography (GSO), for another year of fascinating (and free!) webinars concerning the acoustic lives of marine mammals!
Learn more at https://dosits.org/decision-makers/webinar-series/
22 years ago, Steve Jobs announced the very first iPod: 5GB hard drive. FireWire 400 connectivity. 184 grams (6.5 oz). 2-colour screen. Just under 2cm thick. "1,000 songs".
We miss you.
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20231003-the-primordial-hum-from-the-beginning-of-the-universe
In the first few hundred thousand years of our Universe, strange soundwaves ripped through a cloud of superheated particles. It may offer new insights about dark energy.
This is the 14k gold pocket watch owned by Edgar Allan Poe while writing his short story The Tell-Tale Heart – in which a man is driven mad by the ticking sound of a timepiece. It was auctioned by Christie's and later donated to The Poe Museum in Richmond, Virginia in 2022.
Flip through these photos to see the inside, the watch face, and the back of the watch and its engraving of Poe's name!
If you saw the Sony VAIO VN-CX1 back when it was released in 2007, you'd probably be forgiven for thinking 'Hey, that's a really cool looking PC mouse'. It is!
But then once you saw that it flips open, you'd probably think 'Wait a minute. It's not a mouse – it's a mobile phone!' Well, BOTH are right! Wait, WHAT?
That's right, the VN-CX1 was a PC mouse AND a VOIP ('Voice Over Internet Protocol') phone – but *not* a mobile, because it only drew its power from being plugged in to a PC by USB!
And you couldn't use it as a mouse while you talked on the phone (except in 'hands free mode' which annoyed everyone in your office!).
Sadly, another post-Walkman .
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Friedrich Jürgenson [1903-1987] was a Ukrainian painter and musician who, after buying a tape recorder in 1957, began recording what he believed to be messages from outer space and dead people, now commonly known as EVP (Electronic Voice Phenomenon). In 1959, Jurgenson believed he had been contacted by his dead mother:
'I was outside with a tape recorder, recording bird songs. When I listen[ed] through the tape, a voice was heard to say “Friedel, can you hear me. It’s mammy …” It was my dead mother[']s voice. ‘Friedel’ was her special nickname for me.'
After this, Jürgenson abandoned painting and spent the rest of his life investigating EVP.
According to the Parapsychic Acoustic Research Cooperative [PARC]:
'In spring 1960 one of the voices told [Jürgenson] to “use the radio” as a medium and this was the technique he used until his death. He connected a microphone and a radio receiver to the tape recorder and in this way he could have a real-time conversation with his “friends”. Usually he set the radio reception in between the frequencies where there’s generally a variation of noises. Later he fixed the receiving frequencies to around 1445-1500 kHz (1485.0 kHz is now called the Jürgenson Frequency).'
Hear EVP recordings in our special Halloween online exhibition! Get tickets and showtimes at museumofportablesound.com/haunted !
The indigenous population's fight over the wireless spectrum in the North American West
A conversation with Darrah Blackwater, an attorney, artist, and leading advocate for the right of Native nations to control the waves in their airspace
Six years ago the writer developed tinnitus. He explains how it has reframed his relationship with his body and the world – and how music is his salve
Nine years ago today, U2 frontman Bono was forced to issue an apology for forcing everyone's iTunes to download their latest album for free.
Get ready for next year's 1st decade anniversary NOW by getting your own commemorative Tshirt from the Museum of Portable Sound Gift Shop!
Konstantin Raudive’s BREAKTHROUGH, in which he details his experiments recording Electronic Voice Phenomenon (EVP) - the alleged Voices of the Dead! The grisly grimoire that started it all back in 1971, in an affordable new 50th anniversary paperback edition, is one of our prized acquisitions.
HEAR the EVP VOICES OF THE DEAD when you book a visit to our exhibition, on 21 October through 1 November!
Get tickets & showtimes at museumofportablesound.com/haunted !
Our is the smallest cassette tape in the world! The Sony NTC-120 Digital Micro Tape (1992) was a DAT (Digital Audio Tape) competitor for the Philips Mini-cassette and the Olympus Microcassette, used in the NT line of portable dictation machines. This little wonder could store two full hours of stereo 32kHz 12-bit audio! Swipe to see the cassette out of the packaging and compared to, first, a traditional Compact Cassette, then a lineup comparing it to a Compact Cassette, a MiniDisc, and a Microcassette!
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#OnThisDay 60 years ago, the BBC broadcast the first episode of the television show Doctor Who – a show which has done almost as much to keep the word "sonic" alive in popular culture as Sega has. Please enjoy our Intentionally Inexhaustive History of Doctor Who's Sonic Screwdriver, now set to the lilting tones of the official sonic screwdriver sound effect as it appears on the 1978 BBC Records album 'BBC Sound Effects No. 19: Doctor Who Sound Effects'. #doctowho #bbc #soundeffects #sonicscrewdriver #sonic #60thanniversary #60years #happybirthdaydrwho #happybirthday #williamhartnell #patricktroughton #jonpertwee #tombaker #peterdavison #colinbaker #sylvestermccoy #paulmcgann #christophereccleston #davidtennant #mattsmith #petercapaldi #jodiewhittaker #ncutigatwa #johnhurt #jomartin #scifi #television #cultureofsound #soundbeyondmusic #museumofportablesound
This is a Japanese Scream Jar, our #ObjectOfTheWeek. Its noise-dampening design allegedly allows the owner to scream at the top of their lungs without disturbing their neighbours, then keeps one's anger safe inside its durable ABS plastic shell. We've been unable to track down a thorough English-language history of these jars (as well as their successor, the the Sakeboard (after the Japanese verb “sakebu,” meaning “to shout”) whose surface is covered with whiteboard material, allowing the user to write out their frustrations as well. We first became aware of the vase-shaped version we've now acquired back in 2019. If anyone knows of a reliable source for more information on the history of this stress-relieving toy, or can provide a reliable translation of the packaging, please get in touch! (Swipe to see the packaging and the jar on display here at Museum of Portable Sound Laboratories.) #japanesescreamjar #japanesedesign #japanesetoys #screamjar #screamvase #japan #stressmanagement #stressrelief #physicalobjectscollection #imports #scream #screaming #shout #shouting #voicesilencer #silencer #plastic #plasticmakesitpossible #cultureofsound #soundbeyondmusic #museumofportablesound
Konstantin Raudive’s BREAKTHROUGH, in which he details his experiments recording Electronic Voice Phenomenon (EVP) - the alleged Voices of the Dead! The grisly grimoire that started it all back in 1971, in an affordable new 50th anniversary paperback edition, is one of our prized acquisitions. HEAR the EVP VOICES OF THE DEAD when you book a visit to our #Halloween exhibition, on 21 October through 1 November! Get tickets & showtimes at museumofportablesound.com/haunted ! #halloween2023 #evp #voicesofthedead #konstantinraudive #bookstagram #books #breakthrough #konstantinraudive #ghosthunter #ghosthunters #reeltoreel #sound #listening #magnetictape #soundmuseum #museum #cultureofsound #soundbeyondmusic #hauntedmuseumofportablesound #museumofportablesound
In The Living Daylights (1987) – the first film featuring Timothy Dalton as James Bond – Soviet assassin Necros (Andreas Wisniewski) uses a Philips D6645 Skyrunner walkman to strangle two people: a milkman, whose identity he then assumes to infiltrate a safehouse, and then a chef inside the house. The song playing on Necros' walkman, Where has everybody gone? by The Pretenders, was a contender for the film's theme song. #walkman #necros #assassin #thelivingdaylights #jamesbond #andreaswisniewski #thepretenders #milkman #timothydalton #80s #portablesoundincinema #walkmanasaweapon #cultureofsound #soundbeyondmusic #museumofportablesound
The Museum is open! Earlier today we welcomed a lovely couple who traveled from London to visit us in Portsmouth! The pair engaged in some interactive listening with objects from our Physical Objects Collection including a Neck Crack Prank from China and a seashell rescued from a restaurant in Portugal before taking in the sounds of our Fountains, Railway Stations, and Food galleries! Book your own in person visit here in Portsmouth, or an online visit from anywhere in the world, at museumofportablesound.com/visit ! As always, many thanks to the staff Aspex Portsmouth for making us feel welcome and providing us with such a fab space for hosting our local visits! #museum #museumvisit #museumvisitors #museumobject #interactive #listen #listening #toys #neckcrack #prank #seashell #portugal #iphone4s #earbuds #fountains #railwaystations #food #aspexgallery #aspexportsmouth #portsmouth #portsmouthmuseums #cultureofsound #soundbeyondmusic #museumofportablesound
Join us TONIGHT for a special online listening tour of our most relaxing sounds! Your ticket gets you access to re-listen to the tour online if you can't make it tonight - get you ticket at https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/relaxation-listening-tour-online-tickets-615713956017 #relax #relaxation #unwind #calm #OnlineTour #MuseumTour #InternationalMuseumDay
In 1969, four baby elephants were introduced to Windsor Safari Park near Heathrow airport, but the planes were so loud it caused the babies to stampede. There could be only one solution: elephant earmuffs. #elephants #earmuffs #earplugs #stampede #sensitive #hearing #EarProtection #London #Heathrow #Airport #NoisePollution #WindsorSafariPark
#CONGRATULATIONS to Dayang in Manila, the Philippines! Yesterday she became our museum's 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 http://museumofportablesound.com/visit #visitor #milestone #museum #onlinevisit
Italian company Voxson released its Tanga interchangeable automobile & home #radio system in 1970. Components for AM or FM bands were slotted into either a car dashboard or a home receiver with a minimalist interface: a single red button. #voxson #italiandesign #carradio
#NewAcquisition: The grisly grimoire that started it all in 1971! Konstantin Raudive’s BREAKTHROUGH, detailing his experiments recording Electronic Voice Phenomenon (#EVP)—the Voices of the Dead! Hear these voices when you visit to our #Halloween exhibition NOW THRU MONDAY: museumofportablesound.com/haunted
NEW EXHIBITION OPENS MONDAY! Hear the 18.5 minute gap in the Watergate tape that sealed the fate of US president Richard Nixon 50 years ago! FREE with regular admission - learn more + book tickets: museumofportablesound.com/watergate (#linkinbio) #therosemarystretch #watergate #nixon #erase #tape #tapes #scandal #magnetictape #richardnixon #exhibition #museum #summerexhibition #iamnotacrook #retro #70s #70sstyle #allthepresidentsmen #cultureofsound #soundbeyondmusic #museumofportablesound
NEW EXHIBITION OPENS MONDAY: Hear the infamous 18.5 minute gap in the White House tape recording that sealed the fate of Richard Nixon 50 years ago! Learn more and book your tickets today at museumofportablesound.com/watergate!
Blacque Jacque Shellacque (Mel Blanc) unexpectedly vandalizes a gramophone owned by Bugs Bunny (also Mel Blanc) in 'Wet Hare' (1962). #shower #waterfall #gramophone #shotgun #blacquejacqueshellacque #bugsbunny #melblanc #aljolson #aprilshowers #cartoon #recording #playback #portablesound #cultureofsound #soundeffects #soundbeyondmusic #museumofportablesound
CALL FOR PROPOSALS: Today is #MP3StoreDay 2022 - but we didn’t put an event together for it. Instead, we’re announcing a symposium that we will host online for next year’s MP3 Store Day - which is the 20th anniversary of the iTunes Music Store! Watch our video to learn more, then read the full Call At museumofportablesound.com/mp3storeday (or find it at our #linkinbio). Please share this call far and wide! We hope to meet lots of new people at the symposium next year (and we hope it won’t just be a bunch of old YT guys) #mp3 #mp3player #mp3store #digitalaudio #symposium #callforpapers #callforartists #callforabstracts #proposal #compresseddigitalaudio #psychoacoustics #cultureofsound #audiocompression #soundbeyondmusic #museumofportablesound
Television commercial for Pop Rocks Popping Candy (1979) #soundon #poprocks #foodsounds #crackling #popping #candy #advert #cultureofsound #soundbeyondmusic #museumofportablesound
The sound of sizzling chicken Tikka, Bombay Cottage, Hamilton, Scotland (2011) #soundon #sizzling #chickentikka #bombaycottage #hamilton #scotland #food #cooking #chicken #foodsounds #cultureofsound #colonialism #soundbeyondmusic #museumofportablesound
Originally released on 28 February 1985, British budget electronics brand Alba's Aquaman was quite the intellectual property theft double-whammy, equally ripping off the design of the Sony Sports Walkman and the trademarked name of a DC Comics hero. Plus they had the audacity to inflict this horrific commercial jingle upon the television viewing public. #alba #aquaman #albaaquaman #sportswalkman #sonysportswalkman #sportwalkman #walkman #cassette #cassetteculture #cassettetapes #dccomics #superfriends #jasonmomoa #cultureofsound #advert #jingle #commercial #soundbeyondmusic #museumofportablesound
Website update! We’ve completely redesigned our homepage to make it even easier to understand what exactly we do here at the Museum of Portable Sound! Check it out at museumofportablesound.com and let us know what you think! #webdesign #landingpage #landingpagedesign #website #museumwebsite #museum #museummarketing #soundmuseum #sound #sounds #cultureofsound #soundbeyondmusic #museumofportablesound
Reposted from @libertyhq: The UK Government wants noisy protests shut down. Noise is *LITERALLY* how we make ourselves heard. The House of Lords can kick this plan out of the #PolicingBill again TODAY. They must keep up the fight for protest rights #righttoprotest #killthebill _______________ #cultureofsound #protestisahumanright #protest #humanrights #soundbeyondmusic #museumofportablesound
Why does our museum about sound avoid talking about music so much? Because just as the visual tends to overshadow sound in contemporary culture, musical sound tends to overshadow sound as a whole in sound studies. We want to share the aspects of sound culture beyond music that we find just as exciting and valid as music! That’s why we show you medieval ear paintings and egg timers and Edison’s creepy talking dolls instead of experimental music or “sound art”. 😉 Why not book an Online Visit to our museum and spend some time exploring sound beyond music with us? Booking at our #linkinbio or museumofportablesound.com/online! #soundstudies #sound #music #nonmusicalsound #cultureofsound #overshadow #eyeball #visualculture #soundculture #soundbeyondmusic #museumofportablesound
If AirPods were advertised like iPods… #airpods #airpodspro #ipod #silhouette #commercial #parody #soundon #pop #apple #cultureofsound #soundbeyondmusic #museumofportablesound
The Norsonic Nor277 tapping machine is used for footfall noise transmission testing in buildings as set out in various national and international standards – capable of generating 10 impacts per second and runs for 45 minutes on a single battery charge – the perfect sidekick for your next avant-garde noise music sound art performance (/sarcasm). #soundon #architecture #acoustics #portablesoundinarchitecture #tapping #tappingmachine #machine #footsteps #regulations #tools #cultureofsound #soundbeyondmusic #museumofportablesound
It’s time once again to put up our sound-producing seasonal decoration #soundon #seasonaldecoration #itsnotsuchabadlittletree #reasonfortheseason #vinceguaraldi #happyholidays #cultureofsound #museumofportablesound
Listen to the audio trailer for Sound Beyond Music: the first ever Museum of Portable Sound Conference, taking place online next month! Pick up tickets at our #linkinbio👆! #soundon #conference #mopsconference #soundstudies #museumstudies #research #soundbeyondmusic #sound #listening #acoustics #soundconference #museumofportablesound
Listen to our audio trailer for the upcoming Museum of Portable Sound Conference and see all the presentations we have planned for the event!
#soundon! The mysterious PHANTOM CURATOR is unlocking the (online only!) Haunted Museum of Portable Sound once again this year, bringing a whole host of spooky sounds, creepy cacophonies, and terrifying tunes to entertain you this Halloween! This year’s Haunted exhibition for adults will focus on the world of EVP – Electronic Voice Phenomenon, a specialty of investigators of the paranormal dating back to 1959 and the mysterious off-air recordings made by Swedish painter Friedrich Jürgenson who believed he was hearing voices from beyond the grave! For families, we’ve got sounds from the classic Walt Disney sound effects library, field recordings of bats and crows, and some eerie wax cylinder recordings – some of the earliest sounds ever recorded! Full details & tickets at our #linkinbio! We guarantee this to be the most unique Zoom meeting you’ll have this year! #halloween #haunted #hauntedmuseum #onlinemuseum #thephantomcurator #waxcylinder #electronicvoicephenomenon #evp #ghostvoices #voicesofthedead #zoom #zoomlife #cultureofsound #spooky #soundbeyondmusic #museumofportablesound
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The Museum of Portable Sound, a nonprofit institution supported by donation only, was founded in 2015 in London as a portable museum dedicated to bringing the culture of sound to the world, one listener at a time. Its permanent collection is augmented with an ongoing series of rotating exhibits of no longer than 15 minutes' duration. The Museum's galleries exist solely as a series of digital audio files on the Museum Director's mobile phone. Visits to the Museum are by appointment only (or by bumping into the Museum Director on the street). Visitors are asked to provide their own wired, non-Bluetooth earbuds/headphones for health and safety purposes. Museum Director: John Kannenberg Board of Directors: Glenn Bach (Los Angeles) Carmen Billows (Berlin) Kate Carr (London) Daniel Curley (Saratoga Springs) Jono Gilmurray (Bristol) Mike Hallenbeck (Minneapolis) Annie Jamieson (Bradford) Khaled Kaddal (Alexandria) Meri Kytö (Tampere) CJ Mitchell (Faversham) Kwame Phillips (Rome) Matthew Sansom (Kuala Lumpur) Cheryl Tipp (London) Paul Tourle (Glasgow) Lydie Valentin (Paris) S. Alana Wolf Johnson (Rochester) Philip von Zweck (Chicago)
Please note: The Museum of Portable Sound is not a record label, nor a crowd-sourced sound map or archive. It does not accept unsolicited submissions of sound recordings.
