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VIRTUAL Music Futures: Science and Sound reading group 5

10 June 2022, 4:00 pm–5:30 pm

S. Morland (1672) Tuba Stentooro-Phonica: An Instrument of Excellent Use, as Well ar Sea, as at Land; Invented and Variously Experimented in the Year 1670 and Humbly Presented to the King’s Most Excellent Majesty Charles II in the Year 1671, London: W. Go

Science and Sound will explore recent research at the interface of STS, music and sound and use its sessions to bring together academics, museum curators and performers.

This event is free.

Event Information

Open to

All

Availability

Yes

Cost

Free

Organiser

Cathy Lucas

Join the event via Zoom here

You are all invited to our next Science and Sound reading group that will be taking place on Zoom (Link: https://ucl.zoom.us/j/94545894737) on Friday 10 June, 16.00 to 17.30.

This month, we are reading Rob Mullender-Ross ‘Margaret Watts Hughes and the Eidophone’ in The Public Domain Review available at https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/picturing-a-voice-margaret-watts-hughes-and-the-eidophone

and Margaret Watts, ‘Visible Sound’ in The Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine 42, pp. 37-44, which you can find here:  https://archive.org/details/centuryillustrat42newyuoft/page/36/mode/2up

The nightingale recording appears around 15m30s in towards the end of the 3rd movement. 

Please feel free to contact catherine.lucas.19@ucl.ac.uk if you have any questions or if you are having trouble getting hold of the text.

We are looking forward to another lively session! 

Chiara, Maria, Cathy and Elena (UCL Science and Technology Studies) 

Image credit: S. Morland (1672) Tuba Stentooro-Phonica: An Instrument of Excellent Use, as Well ar Sea, as at Land; Invented and Variously Experimented in the Year 1670 and Humbly Presented to the King’s Most Excellent Majesty Charles II in the Year 1671, London: W. Godbid