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jamesmooney

@jamesmooney

Associate Professor of Musicology and Music Technology. Researcher working on electronic music history and history of sound instruments. Views my own.

 Leeds, UK
Joined October 2008
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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). 🙌 – at Calgary, Alberta
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"Sound Instruments and Sonic Cultures" conference. Call for papers. Keynotes @maramills and Trevor Pinch. Excited to be organising this conference with a fantastic group of colleagues! Please share. #sisc2020 scienceandmediamuseum.org.uk…
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Our picket is so substantial now we have a postal address. #UCUStrikesBack
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#EMAS40 A great gathering!
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Presenting about 'Objects of Electronic Sound and Music' at @UniLeedsCulture this afternoon, a collaborative project with @mediamuseum @AnnieKJamieson @EWilsonStephens et al. #OESM
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@EWilsonStephens lays out the problem with #oesm in museums (or lack thereof) @mediamuseum – at Bradford, England
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Digitising the electronic tape part for Anthony Gilbert's electro-acoustic piece Treatment of Silence from 1969. The sounds were generated with one of the original Don Banks Music Boxes - the direct precursors of the EMS VCS3 synthesizer.
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Read this fab blog post by Gid of @SuperSonicGear about his visit to @mediamuseum for our workshop #OESM2018 with @jamesmooney soundgas.com/blogs/news/a-fa…
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Thank you to vintage audio equipment firm Soundgas (@SuperSonicGear) for this lovely write-up of our recent workshop on 'Objects of Electronic Sound and Music' : soundgas.com/blogs/news/a-fa… #OESM2018 @OESMLeeds
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"It is my hope that questions of feminist desire & the archive & the ambivalent stories therein... remain central in the budding field of feminist sound studies," writes @RoshanakKheshti in her genealogy of "Sound Studies." #openaccess now fmh.ucpress.edu/content/4/2/…
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Seem to have been allowed inside the collection at Bradford Media Museum... @oesm @mediamuseum @anniekjamieson @jamesmooney
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Paul Harkins on the Fairlight CMI and researchers becoming users in musical instrument research. #OESM2018
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@jamesmooney and @AnnieKJamieson explaining their Objects of Electronic Sound and Music project at today's @OESMLeeds workshop at the @mediamuseum #oesm2018
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Aleks Kolkowski on re-enactments, reconstructions, recordings and creative practice with historic objects of electronic sound and music #OESM2018
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James Sumner on the interactive display of computer technology and parallels with sound technology. #OESM2018
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Marion Leonard on 'Reanimating Sound Technologies' @mediamuseum @OESMLeeds #OESM2018
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Mellotron! @mediamuseum @OESMLeeds #OESM2018
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#OESM2018 @OESMLeeds @mediamuseum
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Workshop on Objects of Electronic Sound and Music in Museums begins in an hour and a half. Lovely day for it! @mediamuseum @OESMLeeds #OESM2018
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Getting ready for an interdisciplinary workshop on Objects of Electronic Sound and Music at the @mediamuseum tomorrow. #OESM2018
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