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Table-top instrument featuring a small 10-key keyboard made of wood and ivory and ten cylindrical resonators made of brass. All are mounted on a wooden base.
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Sounds of the Past and Insights for the Future: How Museum Artifacts Can Inspire Musical Creativity

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Maryam Soufisiavash
University of Alberta
Aug 4, 2023
I joined Ingenium last Fall as the 2022-23 Research Fellow in Sound and Science, working with curators and international researchers on a database project called Sound and Science: a Database for Sources on the History of Acoustics. As a pianist, I have always had an interest in the study of sound; however, this project led me to re-evaluate, reconsider, and think more creatively about the acoustic elements of the different instruments I play and the different performance spaces I perform in
Overhead shot of the reconstructed instrument with the control surface opened up, showing various wires and electronic modules located beneath.
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Uncovering the secrets of the world’s first synthesizer (Part II)

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Tom Everrett, PhD
Ingenium - Canada's Museums of Science and Innovation
Jul 12, 2023
Seventy-five years ago, Canadian physicist Hugh Le Caine began work on a strange, new musical instrument with an equally strange name: the Electronic Sackbut. While you may not have heard of the Electronic Sackbut before, you’ve almost certainly heard of the ubiquitous musical instrument it pioneered: the synthesizer. This is part two of an ongoing Channel series that follows Ingenium’s reconstruction of the 1948 Electronic Sackbut, better known as the world’s first synthesizer. Today we’ll look
A red plastic telephone with the handset off of the base on a light grey table. There are scratches on the phone which is an angular design. The rotary dial is on the handset and attached to the base by a red spiral cord.
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A Phone Call from Below the Arctic Ice - The 50th Anniversary of Arctic III Sub-Igloo Phone Call to Prime Minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau

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Sarah Jaworski
Ingenium – Canada's Museums of Science and Innovation
May 19, 2023
On December 17, 1972, Canadian scientists on an Arctic expedition made a groundbreaking phone call to Ottawa. The Arctic III expedition, led by Dr. Joe MacInnis, made the call from 12 metres (40 feet) below the Arctic ice in Resolute Bay, Nunavut, (which was, at that time, part of Northwest Territories).
A bushplane, the de Havilland Canada DHC-2 Beaver, on display at the Canada Aviation and Space Museum. A new text panel sits in front of the aircraft: a gray structure with wood-tone side panels and dark metal legs. Its backlit surface presents the name of the aircraft, a selection of images, and interpretive texts. A life-size display of a dock sits to the right, followed by another aircraft and panel.
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Whispering Loudly: An Update about the “Quiet Updates”

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Erin Poulton
Canada Aviation and Space Museum
Dec 19, 2022
Small changes can add up to big results! The look-and-feel at the Canada Aviation and Space Museum is evolving. See how “Quiet Updates” are making an impact.
Louis Victor Jules Vierne (3rd from left), composer and organist of Notre-Dame de Paris cathedral at the keyboard of the Coupleux Givelet electronic organ, Poste Parisien radio station, Paris, France. Anon., “L’orgue des ondes du ‘Poste parisien’ est inauguré.” Le Petit Parisien, 27 October 1932, 1.
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The melodious saga of two French pioneers of electronic music who deserve to be better known: Joseph Armand Marie Givelet and Édouard Éloy Coupleux

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Rénald Fortier
Ingenium – Canada's…
Oct 9, 2022
Yours truly must hereby and heretofore apologise for not having written, last month, any text directly involving the activities of the Canada Science and Technology Museum, in Ottawa, Ontario, a sister / brother institution of the dazzling Canada Aviation and Space Museum, also in Ottawa. Mea culpa, mea culpa, mea maxima culpa. Speaking (typing?) of fault, I also have a confession to make, my reading friend. To my great shame, I must admit that I do not have an ear for music. In my distant youth
Cropped photograph of the 1874 ear phonautograph showing the mouthpiece and ear components.
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Reconstructing a lost object: can you identify this component in Alexander Graham Bell's 1874 ear phonautograph?

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Tom Everrett, PhD
Ingenium - Canada's Museums of Science and Innovation
Sep 7, 2022
The ear phonautograph was a macabre instrument. It was built by Alexander Graham Bell and Clarence J. Blake in 1874, and used a surgically-removed human ear—a skull fragment, ear canal, ear drum, and ossicle bones—to visually “write” sound waves. It worked like this: the surgically-removed ear was first attached to the top bracket of the instrument by a bolt driven through the skull fragment. It was then tightened in place with a thumbscrew. When a user spoke into the mouthpiece, located behind
A close-up view of a radio pill a few moments before the first volunteer patient swallowed it. Anon., “Science – Radio Made to Swallow.” Life, 29 April 1957, 74.
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Take one of these pills and your innards will call me in the morning: The digestive saga of… the radio pill

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Rénald Fortier
Ingenium – Canada's…
Apr 24, 2022
Ave amice, scribiti te salutant. Knowing how much you like science, technology, innovation, piña coladas and getting caught in the rain, yours truly would like to bring a pill to your attention. Not just any pill, mind you. Nay. A high tech pill. A radio pill. Oooooh. Shiny. Until it came out, that is. Sorry, sorry. One could argue that our story began with American humorist / columnist / actor Robert Charles Benchley. The earliest mention yours truly could find for Benchley’s With gun and
Autumn vista of a river winding between pine trees and snow-capped mountains.
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AI-Generated sound therapy for critically ill patients

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Corona Guan Wang
Ingenium – Canada's Museums of Science and Innovation
Mar 30, 2022
At the start of 2022, I joined Ingenium – Canada’s Museums of Science and Innovation as a research assistant. Ingenium curators Dr. Tom Everrett (Communications) and Dr. David Pantalony (Physical Sciences and Medicine) invited me to write about a research project that I am currently affiliated with called Autonomous Adaptive Soundscape (AAS). The AAS is an intelligent bio-algorithmic system that selects therapeutic soundscapes to relax ICU patients, via application of machine learning and
John D’Alton Woodlock with one of his sons, Peter Woodlock, in front of the family television set, Iberville, Québec, summer of 1949. Arthur Prévost, “Dix ans avant CBFT – À Iberville, on a la TV depuis 14 ans!...” Le Petit Journal, 14 January 1962, A-49.
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But sadly, like so many great minds, Québec television pioneer John D’Alton Woodlock was gone too soon – and quickly forgotten

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Rénald Fortier
Ingenium – Canada's…
Jan 30, 2022
Greetings, my reading friend, and welcome to another day for you and me in paradise. As you know, there are people on this Earth who leave it far too soon. The passing of such people is all the more regrettable as you and I can name a host of people the planet could very well do without. Especially now. Yours truly would like to discuss with you today of one of those people who leave our little blue marble far too early. John D’Alton Woodlock was apparently born in 1916, in Montréal, Québec. His
A woman is silhouetted in front of a circular, glowing showcase presenting the Koenig Sound Analyser. The title, “Seeing Sound” is visible on the wall.
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Mind the gap: The positive impact of multi-sensory experiences

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Samantha Moore
Ingenium – Canada's Museums of Science and Innovation
Jan 10, 2022
As a blind/low vision child, two things seemed just out of reach for Samantha Moore: history and art.
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