I Miss The Sound Of
Q.
For me, it’s the crackle of the kitchen radio, the clack of Dad’s typewriter, the steam hiss of Mum’s vintage iron, the minor third trill ring of a rotary phone call that best be for me.
What are some nostalgic sounds that you miss from your childhood? How many of those noises will no longer exist 5, 10, 30 years from now? How to preserve them?
.
A.
One place to look: Conserve The Sound – an online museum for endangered sounds, built in 2013 by German designers Daniel Chun and Jan Derksen.
How fun it is to hear the manic knocking of clackers – or Klick-Klack-Kugeln. Now, clackers could inflict a lot of damage as they smashed into faces. No surprise that they joined the Banned Toy list in 1985. But, when you hear a sound you haven’t heard since you were eight, the memories come rushing back.
How about the circling of a vintage phone, the click of a tape going into a cassette player, the rustle of a giant paper map being unfurled from the glove compartment, the metal whirr of a hand beater, or the reel to reel of an old projector?
This Conserve The Sound cache of sounds are fun to revisit and a great resource for authors, filmmakers and others trying to relive sounds gone and going.
.
.
.
www.justcurious.ca
Header Art: Wendy Scofield
