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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
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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
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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
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Music meets public history and digital humanities in Garth Wilson Fellowship

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Victoria Hawco
Jul 19, 2021
As the 2020-2021 Garth Wilson Fellow, Victoria Hawco provided design input on an international database of acoustical objects with Ingenium – Canada’s Museums of Science and Innovation.
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Uncovering the secrets of the world’s first synthesizer (Part I)

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Tom Everrett, PhD
Ingenium - Canada's Museums of Science and Innovation
May 26, 2021
Canadian Hugh Le Caine invented the 1948 Electronic Sackbut — the world's earliest known electronic synthesizer. Now a team at Ingenium is bringing this revolutionary instrument back to life.
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Nerd-rock band sings about science in support of museum learning programs

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Sonia Mendes
Ingenium - Canada's Museums of Science and Innovation
Feb 27, 2018
An Ottawa-based rock band will sing about artificial intelligence during a fund-raising concert for the Ingenium Foundation on March 2. The band – Double Experience – performs an array of songs with a focus on science and technology themes. The upcoming show is a song release party for their latest single, AI Freaks Me Out.

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