Tom Everrett @CommTechCurator

Curator of Communication Technologies @IngeniumCa // Adjunct Professor @Carleton_U // Sound, Museums, History // he/il Ottawa, Ontario Joined January 2011

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Ingenium @IngeniumCa

2 years ago

Carla Ayukawa worked with Ingenium’s @CommTechCurator to explore ways of collaborating with blind and low vision communities to create accessible and engaging virtual exhibitions. Read about it: ow.ly/8zws50P3XwF #AccessforAll #Accessibility

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Tom Everrett @CommTechCurator

2 years ago

Latest update on the Electronic Sackbut project can be found below, including photos of work in progress. Happy to answer any questions 👋 ingeniumcanada.org/channel/articl…

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Tom Everrett @CommTechCurator

2 years ago

A look under the hood of the Electronic Sackbut synth reconstruction-in-progress. Keyboard and surface controls wired up. Next steps: making connections to digital sound engine and adapting physical/electronic components to best match functionality of the original 1948 instrument

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Ingenium @IngeniumCa

2 years ago

Carlile Sea worked with Ingenium’s @CommTechCurator to explore strategies for representing accessibility in Ingenium’s artifact collection. You can read Carlile’s thoughts on the topic here: ow.ly/W5eO50OzN3T

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Create Waterloo @CreateWaterloo

2 years ago

This week is Open Ears Festival of Music and Sound!🔊🎵 They have an incredible lineup of performances and workshops for their 25th anniversary of the festival. ⏰June 1-4 📍Throughout #KW For more details and festival passes, visit openears.ca

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Tom Everrett @CommTechCurator

2 years ago

On December 17, 1972, Canadian scientists working in the Arctic descended into a plexiglass bubble anchored 40ft underwater and made a phone call to PM Pierre Elliott Trudeau. @IngeniumCa has the artifacts and curator @SEJaworski wrote a story about them: ingeniumcanada.org/channel/articl…

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Tom Everrett @CommTechCurator

3 years ago

Big day for our Electronic Sackbut reconstruction project: the physical build is done! Just need to wire it up and start experimenting with the sound. Kudos to our fabricator Denis Larouche on such a brilliant job. Virtually indistinguishable from the original (1948) artifact. 🙌

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Tom Everrett @CommTechCurator

3 years ago

A few years ago my team and I at @IngeniumCa reconstructed Alexander Graham Bell's macabre 1874 ear phonautograph. We're still trying to figure out what the original mouthpiece was made of. I just wrote a blog on it 👇 Any ideas? We'd love to hear them! ingeniumcanada.org/channel/articl…

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Tom Everrett @CommTechCurator

3 years ago

James Mooney speaking at @nmc_canada on the tape recorder as electronic musical instrument. Note the instrument on centre stage: Hugh Le Caine's Special Purpose Tape Recorder (made in Ottawa, 1959). One of my fav artifacts at @IngeniumCa (on loan/exhibit at NMC). 🙌

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Tom Everrett @CommTechCurator

3 years ago

Looking forward to presenting progress on the Electronic Sackbut reconstruction project at the 2022 American Musical Instrument Society Conference at @nmc_canada this am. If you're attending, please say hello! 🎹👋

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Tom Everrett @CommTechCurator

3 years ago

Ever wonder what stethoscope artifacts can teach us about the history of sound culture in medicine? Aliisa Qureshi recently explored the question in her Ingenium Channel article below. ingeniumcanada.org/channel/articl…

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Tom Everrett @CommTechCurator

3 years ago

This is such a cool project. Using AI to deliver therapeutic soundscapes "on demand," based on how the body is responding to stress. Read more in Corona Wang's blog post below. ingeniumcanada.org/channel/articl…

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Tom Everrett @CommTechCurator

4 years ago

If you're interested in electronic instrument heritage/conservation, join @AnnieKJamieson and I and friends for a conversation on just that tomorrow! Friday, 10am EST. Registration and programme here (free): mirn.org.uk

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Tom Everrett @CommTechCurator

4 years ago

More Sackbut: this orange mass was originally a sponge that made the lever kick back after you flicked it with your pinky finger (to adjust the attack of a note). Now it's crumbling to dust. We're measuring it to guess the original size and feel. The goal: "optimal flick."

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Tom Everrett @CommTechCurator

4 years ago

Trying to determine the degree of action (up and down) on the Electronic Sackbut's keys, which have been affected by shifts in the wooden keyboard frame over time.