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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
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
Stethoscopes displayed in the permanent Medical Sensations exhibition at the Canada Science and Technology Museum.
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Curating sound culture: Exploring the history of the stethoscope

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Aliisa Qureshi
Ingenium – Canada's Museums of Science and Innovation
May 12, 2022
Few things say ‘doctor’ more than a stethoscope. Even in the modern medical field, which can be regarded as highly vision-based (imaging, scanning, observing), the stethoscope remains a powerful medical tool and an iconic symbol of past traditions. Above all, the stethoscope represents a deep and enduring relationship between medical practice and sound. During my time as a practicum student for Ingenium, I worked on developing a research profile of the museum’s stethoscope collection, focusing
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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
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.
In the foreground, a cell phone displays the splash screen of the Sound by Design podcast. Behind the cellphone is a blurred image of the Sound by Design exhibition.
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Museum podcasts: An ideal virtual format for blind and low vision visitors

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Carla Ayukawa
Jul 27, 2021
How do you create a virtual web-based museum exhibition for visitors with vision impairments? Read about the recommendations and inclusive solutions Carla Ayukawa, a curatorial studies student, learned through her consultations with the visitor group.
A desk with monochromatic white and silver objects on it, including an open laptop, a cellphone, a coffee cup, and several books. There is a plant in the background, and a white wall behind the desk.
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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.
Over-the-shoulder shot of curator and conservator peering under the hood of the Electronic Sackbut synthesizer. Internal wiring and circuitry behind keyboard is exposed.
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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.
A young woman sits on her luggage in an empty airport terminal, gazing off into the distance to the left of screen. She is alone and wearing a blue medical mask, with headphones draped around her neck.
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Remembering the sounds of COVID-19

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Tom Everrett, PhD
Ingenium - Canada's Museums of Science and Innovation
Aug 18, 2020
What does the COVID-19 pandemic sound like? Ingenium's communications curator offers up a look at the pandemic from the perspective of sound.
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