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"The Museum of Portable Sound is a portable museum dedicated to portable sound, currently based in London, UK. The Museum's galleries exist as digital files located on the Museum Director's mobile phone - due to copyright concerns, we are unable to distribute all of our objects online. Displays of our permanent collection are augmented with an ongoing series of rotating exhibits in our Exposition Space."

Alec Wilkinson writes about Carl Haber, an experimental physicist who discovered a way to use the same ultra-sensitive detectors found in the CERN particle collider to resurrect previously unplayable recordings from the earliest days of recorded sound.

"Space is the place. Again. And SoundCloud is now a place you can find sounds from the US government space agency, NASA. In addition to the requisite vocal clips ("Houston, we've had a problem" and "The Eagle has landed"), you get a lot more. There are rocket sounds, the chirps of satellites and equipment, lightning on Jupiter, interstellar plasma and radio emissions. And in one nod to humanity, and not just American humanity, there's the Soviet satellite Sputnik (among many projects that are international in nature)."

OPEN ACCESS FORTHCOMING AUTHORS ABOUT CONTACT A Slightly Curving Place asks what it means to listen to the past and its absence which remains. It responds to the practice of acoustic archaeologist Umashankar Manthravadi, whose life and work are a history of sound and technology through the second half of the twentieth century. As a self-taught acoustic archaeologist, he has been building ambisonic microphones since the 1990s to measure the acoustic properties of premodern performance spaces. Comprising a range of perspectives in which his propositions reverberate, the publication attends to what he does, and to the political and performative potential of the past that he opens up.

Great collection of printed brochures for Braun hi-fi audio products going back to the 30's

"An aural history of the Cold War technologies that underpinned the space race and the arms race. "

"It's 200 years since Thomas De Quincey wrote On the Knocking On the Gate in Macbeth, the first serious consideration of the strange and powerful psychological impact of sound effects - sounds which aren't language or music but still carry a level of meaning which seem to elevate them above our everyday sound world. To mark the occasion, composer Sarah Angliss meets some of the world's foremost sound designers to consider the enduring power and ubiquity of the sound effect."

" OUR LIBRARY - A COLLECTION OF STORIES IN SOUND DEDICATED TO NATURE PASSIONATE ABOUT SOUND"

"This site is the online presence of the project ( nula.cc ), which consists of a series of filecasts, each an assemblage of sounds, images, and words, and made available for download, sharing, commentary, and further manipulation."