RT Journal Article
T1 Organising Sound
A1 Tim Boon
A1 Annie Jamieson
A1 John Kannenberg
A1 Aleks Kolkowski
A1 James Mansell
YR 2017
VO 8
IS Autumn 2017
K1 science
K1  technology
K1  music
K1  exhibition
K1  noise
K1  silence
K1  participation
K1  research
AB 
NO ‘…as far back as the twenties, I decided to call my music "organized sound", and myself not a musician, but "a worker in rhythms, frequencies, and intensities”’ – Varèse, E and Wen-Chung, C, 1966, ‘The Liberation of Sound’, Perspectives of New Music, 5, p 18,  https://doi.org/10.2307/832385 (accessed 26 July 2017)
NO The suggestion came from Ian Blatchford, Director of the Science Museum.
NO Jenny Nex, and Aaron Williamon for the RCM and Charlotte Connelly and Tim Boon for the Science Museum were all participants in this work.
NO Trevor Pinch’s session included his personal recollection of a study undertaken at York University c.1985, together with Colin Clark.
NO The puritan stick (also called a 'silence' or 'church stick') was typically a long staff with a round knob attached to one end for striking young misbehavers and a feather on the other to awaken dozing adults.
NO 'The New York School' emerged in the 1950s and is represented by the composers John Cage, Morton Feldman, Christian Wolff, David Tudor and Earl Brown (Nyman, 1974, p 50).
NO John Lely, in his programme notes for the concert, February 2015.
NO G Douglas Barrett, A Few Silence (2008), extract from verbal score.
NO Cage tells the story in Nam June Paik’s video Global Groove (1973), see: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jS9ZOlFB-kI (accessed on 20 July 2017).
NO EVP is a branch of parapsychology begun in 1959 by Friedrich Jurgenson.
NO Paul Bavister of Audialsense, in his introduction to the work.
NO Volksauflauf (Vorbeiziehende Volksmenge, Aufruhr) Theater-Geräusch-Platter (Parlophone (Lindström) Berlin, Matrix. No.: 37825, 1929). Translation: Crowd (passing crowd, uproar), Theatre-Sound Record
NO Video and audio recordings are available at: https://vimeo.com/123489997 (accessed on 5 June 2017).
NO Perhaps the most famous and enduring example of the reuse of sound effects is the ‘Wilhelm Scream’, first used in Raoul Walsh’ s 1951 film Distant Drums, and since featured in numerous well-known titles. It is, allegedly, still being used today. See: Does That Scream Sound Familiar? ABC News Report, USA: 4 October 2007 http://abcnews.go.com/WN/story?id=3728693&page=1 (accessed on 5 June 2017). For a compilation of clips from films that have used the Wilhelm Scream see: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cdbYsoEasio (accessed on 5 June 2017).
NO Wheatstone’s ’Enchanted lyre’ or ‘Acoucryptophone’ (1821) is part of the Museum’s collection, currently on display at the Horniman Museum.
NO The Science Museum’s reconstructed Charles Babbage’s Difference Engine No. 2: http://collection.sciencemuseum.org.uk/people/cp36993/charles-babbage; Toyoda Power Loom: http://collection.sciencemuseum.org.uk/objects/co528175/power-loom-weaving-loom; (both accessed on 25 July 2017).
NO Sounding A Victorian Future, Aleks Kolkowski, first performed at TEDx, Imperial College?, 24 March 2012. Viewable on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AwW41wPQXQc (accessed on 25 July 2017)??
NO Composer’s website: http://www.koenigproject.nl/indexe.htm (accessed on 25 July 2017)
NO Programme note by Sarah Angliss and Caroline Radcliffe. See: http://www.sarahangliss.com/gigs/themachinery (accessed on 25 July 2017)
NO Performance viewable on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pGEUhjWGQ2I (accessed on 25 July 2017)
NO A circuit-bent Texas Instruments 'Speak & Spell' is found in the Science Museum collection: http://collection.sciencemuseum.org.uk/objects/co8238729/speak-and-spell-childrens-toy-that-has-been-circuit-bent (accessed 05 June 2017). For details on how to circuit-bend a ‘Furby’ toy, see: http://circuit-bent.net/furby-bending-tutorial.html (accessed 05 June 2017).
NO See: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k-YbsiU9bUY (accessed on 6 June 2017)
NO See: https://www.theguardian.com/music/2014/feb/07/skinny-puppy-payment-guantanamo (accessed on 6 June 2017)
NO http://www.endangeredaudioresearch.com/gristleizer-pedal/ (accessed on 6 June 2017)
NO David Robson, 'Kiki or bouba? In search of language’s missing link’, New Scientist 13 July 2011: https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21128211-600-kiki-or-bouba-in-search-of-languages-missing-link/ (accessed 7 June 2017)
NO La Lontananza Nostalgica Utopica Futura. Madrigal for several ‘travellers’ with Gidon Kremer, solo violin, 8 magnetic tapes, and 8 to 10 music stands, composed in 1988–89. The final version of the tape was prepared by Sofia Gubaidulina and Gidon Kremer in the Experimental Studio of the Heinrich Strobel Foundation, Südwestfunk Freiburg. See: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X-CKVm8MXxU (accessed 7 June 2017)
NO European Space Agency Art and Science residencies, in partnership with Ars Electronica: http://www.esa.int/Our_Activities/Space_Science/Calling_all_artists_apply_now_for_art_and_science_residency (accessed 7 June 2017)
NO The ESA’s official SoundCloud channel hosts a multitude of sounds and so-called sonifications from Space, including the famous ‘singing comet’, a track that has been reused and remixed thousands of times by composers and music makers worldwide: http://open.esa.int/esas-sounds-from-space/ (accessed 7 June 2017).
NO The loom rhythm was also the basis for the opening stanzas of Benjamin Frankel’s score for Alexander MacKendrick’s film, The Man in the White Suit (1951). 
NO Norman’s ‘multi-sensory experience’ might equally be taken to prompt thought about the history of the relations between hearing and vision, if only to the extent of the techniques that physicists, instrument makers and musicians have used to realise a visual component to sonic experience. This would provide stimulus to seek out objects and phenomena including Kaleidophones and the apparatus for Chladni patterns and Lissajous figures.
PB The Science Museum Group
SN 2054-5770
LA eng
DO 10.15180/170814
UL http://journal.sciencemuseum.ac.uk/browse/issue-08/organising-sound/
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WT Science Museum Group Journal
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