Projections
Composition by Tom Thompson. "I used the projector sounds to signify some of the subtle shifts in the composition.  Thinking of the theme of this project made me feel a bit melancholy while composing and also nostalgic for many of the analog sounds that have passed into obscurity." This is part of the Obsolete Sounds project, the world’s biggest collection of disappearing sounds and sounds th...
5m Aug 17, 2022
5m
Forgotten landscapes 1
Composition by Matthew Zook. "I was inspired by all aspects of the original sample and after working with the sound I discovered interesting textures and colors emerging from all moments of the sample. "Considering the subject matter of the project, Obsolete Sounds, I wanted to create a soundscape that represented an abandoned civilization, now overcome by nature, frozen in time and "obsolete...
9m Aug 17, 2022
9m
A world to waste
Composition by Andrej Tatarchevski. "The recording of a shaver was used as a sort of background drone. As we humans are being stripped naked and civilization enters a phase of incoherence of meaning, a few frequencies that poke out can offer one solace." This is part of the Obsolete Sounds project, the world’s biggest collection of disappearing sounds and sounds that have become extinct – rem...
2m Aug 17, 2022
2m
Accurate slices
Composition by Enisle. "I have the Braun Sixtant as a background hum and as chops/slices that appear throughout. It's a mix of calmness and occasional aggressive phased hits as the equipment catches the prey in its teeth. The title is derived from past Braun advertisements highlighting the precision of their shavers." This is part of the Obsolete Sounds project, the world’s biggest collection...
3m Aug 17, 2022
3m
Stone age drill
Recording provided by Conserve The Sound. This is part of the Obsolete Sounds project, the world’s biggest collection of disappearing sounds and sounds that have become extinct – remixed and reimagined to create a brand new form of listening. Explore the whole project at https://citiesandmemory.com/obsolete-sounds
23s Aug 17, 2022
23s
Steam engine transmission belt
Recording provided by Conserve The Sound. This is part of the Obsolete Sounds project, the world’s biggest collection of disappearing sounds and sounds that have become extinct – remixed and reimagined to create a brand new form of listening. Explore the whole project at https://citiesandmemory.com/obsolete-sounds
46s Aug 17, 2022
46s
Leica Pradovit P 150 slide projector
Recording provided by Conserve The Sound. This is part of the Obsolete Sounds project, the world’s biggest collection of disappearing sounds and sounds that have become extinct – remixed and reimagined to create a brand new form of listening. Explore the whole project at https://citiesandmemory.com/obsolete-sounds
43s Aug 17, 2022
43s
Braun Sixtant 1 shaver
Recording provided by Conserve The Sound. This is part of the Obsolete Sounds project, the world’s biggest collection of disappearing sounds and sounds that have become extinct – remixed and reimagined to create a brand new form of listening. Explore the whole project at https://citiesandmemory.com/obsolete-sounds
40s Aug 17, 2022
40s
Braun Sixtant shaver
Recording provided by Conserve The Sound. This is part of the Obsolete Sounds project, the world’s biggest collection of disappearing sounds and sounds that have become extinct – remixed and reimagined to create a brand new form of listening. Explore the whole project at https://citiesandmemory.com/obsolete-sounds
35s Aug 17, 2022
35s
Stone age drill (Xqui remix)
Composition by Xqui. "There was one 'beat' that took my attention and I thought it would be useful to repeat that sound to make a 'drum' hook." This is part of the Obsolete Sounds project, the world’s biggest collection of disappearing sounds and sounds that have become extinct – remixed and reimagined to create a brand new form of listening. Explore the whole project at https://citiesandmemo...
4m Aug 17, 2022
4m
Braun again
Composition by Lifesize Cardboard Cutout. "My original idea was simply guitars that sound like electric razors / electric razors that sound like guitars. I was envisaging something very buzzy and noisy, but as I got the sounds together it mutated into something else. I took the original recording and treated it in a couple of different ways, as well as grabbing a sample to play on an old Casio...
4m Aug 17, 2022
4m
Roll it back
Composition by Detski. "I grew up around lots of tape machines, recorders, players etc. (my dad is a sound artist), as well as owning a Walkman in the late 90s, so this cassette player sample has a lot of nostalgia tied to it. I initially started off this track as something much more chilled-out and downtempo. I actually stumbled upon the main twisted guitar sample by accident, which really he...
7m Aug 17, 2022
7m
In August haze
Composition by theapplesofenergy. "The original recording of the Sony CFS-W3045 got me thinking about loops and my love of cassette tapes/tape decks over the years. The sound of the tape being turned over, rewound, fast forwarded and paused are amongst some of my favourite sounds. "They remind me of recording songs from the radio when I was a teenager. When recording my own material, I use a ...
4m Aug 17, 2022
4m
Noisy action with cassette recorder and codes
Composition by osvaldo cibils. "Mix of technologies. Noisy action with cassette recorder digital audio file and Flocking codes accumulation." This is part of the Obsolete Sounds project, the world’s biggest collection of disappearing sounds and sounds that have become extinct – remixed and reimagined to create a brand new form of listening. Explore the whole project at https://citiesandmemory...
7m Aug 17, 2022
7m
Just can't quite capture the scene
Composition by XXXXX. "Film captures memories, but like our memories, these photos degrade and only offer a piece of what took place and how it made us feel. I used this old-school kodak camera sound as inspiration to translate this experience of memory and technology obsolescence into sound art. "Each time the camera goes off and a new photo is attempted, the sound of the beautiful Atlantic ...
7m Aug 17, 2022
7m
Weltron Mod. 2004 radio cassette recorder
Recording provided by Conserve The Sound. This is part of the Obsolete Sounds project, the world’s biggest collection of disappearing sounds and sounds that have become extinct – remixed and reimagined to create a brand new form of listening. Explore the whole project at https://citiesandmemory.com/obsolete-sounds
35s Aug 17, 2022
35s
Sony CFS-W3045 radio cassette recorder
Recording provided by Conserve The Sound. This is part of the Obsolete Sounds project, the world’s biggest collection of disappearing sounds and sounds that have become extinct – remixed and reimagined to create a brand new form of listening. Explore the whole project at https://citiesandmemory.com/obsolete-sounds
41s Aug 17, 2022
41s
Sony CFD-101 radio cassette recorder
Recording provided by Conserve The Sound. This is part of the Obsolete Sounds project, the world’s biggest collection of disappearing sounds and sounds that have become extinct – remixed and reimagined to create a brand new form of listening. Explore the whole project at https://citiesandmemory.com/obsolete-sounds
1m Aug 17, 2022
1m
Pinhole Camera Kodak Bull's Eye Six-20
Recording provided by Conserve The Sound. This is part of the Obsolete Sounds project, the world’s biggest collection of disappearing sounds and sounds that have become extinct – remixed and reimagined to create a brand new form of listening. Explore the whole project at https://citiesandmemory.com/obsolete-sounds
48s Aug 17, 2022
48s
Braun Mikron shaver
Recording provided by Conserve The Sound. This is part of the Obsolete Sounds project, the world’s biggest collection of disappearing sounds and sounds that have become extinct – remixed and reimagined to create a brand new form of listening. Explore the whole project at https://citiesandmemory.com/obsolete-sounds
34s Aug 17, 2022
34s
Duet for breaking waves and the horizon
Waves in Caloura, Azores, reimagined by Cities and Memory. "Looking directly south from Caloura in the Azores, there's a good chance that if you sailed directly south the next land you hit might be Antarctica. Staring out at the horizon, with only the wheeling birds overhead anchoring us back to dry land, the temptation to contemplate the infinite is even stronger than the usual compulsion tha...
5m Aug 17, 2022
5m
Recording waves, contemplating the infinite
If you go directly south from Caloura in the Azores, there's a reasonable chance you wouldn't hit land until Antarctica. Staring out from the jetty at the end of the harbour in Caloura, looking at the horizon, the sense of the infinite becomes overwhelming, even more than when making a "usual" wave recording looking out at the sea. We refocus, listen more closely and tune into the wheeling bird...
5m Aug 17, 2022
5m
A glance, a footstep, a shiver
Composition by Lucy Cathcart Frödén with Anneleen Lindsay and Ali Jehad. "The ‘obsolete sound’ I used was a recording of the mechanism of an Agfa Billy medium format camera: a series of shutter clicks and each subsequent winding on of the film. Reflecting on the potential of a photograph to somehow slow down time, or at least preserve a moment in time, I decided to experiment with slowing down...
3m Aug 17, 2022
3m
Gravity
Composition by Gordo Lowrey. "I'm a film camera nut, and this sample had some good natural rhythmic components w/ the winding that gave me some inspiration. The shutter sound is also very metallic sounding, so I decided to use it as a percussive component, and then built the rest of the composition around it. "The shutters on these cameras are unique, in that they are gravity controlled, and ...
9m Aug 17, 2022
9m
The once future: memories of JoyCam
Composition by Wayne DeFehr. "The original recording of the JoyCam is used throughout as ambient textures and rhythmic elements, with chance percentages modifying the delay patterns and extended reverbs. These sounds inspired me in several ways - remembering the mechanical sound of this technological innovation from that time. And also thinking of the people behind the JoyCam sounds, "capturin...
8m Aug 17, 2022
8m
Welt
Composition by Yoni Den. " All sounds were made from the sample using the Elektron Digitakt. The original sound was a percusive click and wind of an old camera.  Three distinct samples were taken from the original sound, each very short.The clicks made good drums and percusion instruments, when pitched around a bit. By then microsampling them and looping made wave table synths out of the same....
6m Aug 17, 2022
6m
Lightning, pinhole camera, Daphne Oram & Clarice Lispector
Composition by Masha Kouznetsova. "I recorded two tape loops from the sound sample of the Agfa pinhole camera, and developed the composition of found sounds upon these looped sound samples. I also recorded on tape the sound from the real-time map of lightning occurring across the globe and the sound of the magnetosphere from HereGOES satellite, broadcast live via the installation at Wave Farm....
4m Aug 17, 2022
4m
Pinhole Camera: Agfa Schulprämie
Recording provided by Conserve The Sound. This is part of the Obsolete Sounds project, the world’s biggest collection of disappearing sounds and sounds that have become extinct – remixed and reimagined to create a brand new form of listening. Explore the whole project at https://citiesandmemory.com/obsolete-sounds
44s Aug 17, 2022
44s
Medium Format Camera - Weltaflex
Recording provided by Conserve The Sound. This is part of the Obsolete Sounds project, the world’s biggest collection of disappearing sounds and sounds that have become extinct – remixed and reimagined to create a brand new form of listening. Explore the whole project at https://citiesandmemory.com/obsolete-sounds
42s Aug 17, 2022
42s
Medium Format Camera - Purma Special (Beck Anastigma)
Recording provided by Conserve The Sound. This is part of the Obsolete Sounds project, the world’s biggest collection of disappearing sounds and sounds that have become extinct – remixed and reimagined to create a brand new form of listening. Explore the whole project at https://citiesandmemory.com/obsolete-sounds
38s Aug 17, 2022
38s
Medium Format Camera - Agfa Billy
Recording provided by Conserve The Sound. This is part of the Obsolete Sounds project, the world’s biggest collection of disappearing sounds and sounds that have become extinct – remixed and reimagined to create a brand new form of listening. Explore the whole project at https://citiesandmemory.com/obsolete-sounds
1m Aug 17, 2022
1m
Instant Camera Polaroid Joycam
Recording provided by Conserve The Sound. This is part of the Obsolete Sounds project, the world’s biggest collection of disappearing sounds and sounds that have become extinct – remixed and reimagined to create a brand new form of listening. Explore the whole project at https://citiesandmemory.com/obsolete-sounds
52s Aug 17, 2022
52s
Makro pocket
Composition by Walthamstow Home Keyboard Laboratory. "The click, scratch and wind of this camera was reminiscent of a camera I used to use. But in playing with the sound I also found engine noises, which made me feel the piece needed to drive forwards. I played with roughly contemporaneous home-keyboards and drum machines to propel and fill out the composition." This is part of the Obsolete S...
5m Aug 16, 2022
5m
Focus
Composition by Jonathan Higgins. "The original recording is of a Canon film SLR camera autofocusing and then taking a photo. I looked to focus in on the individual elements of the sound, starting by using (and misusing) noise reduction tools to isolate each element of the recording: the beeps, shutter clack, winding gears, and background noise. I then processed these to emphasise and draw out ...
3m Aug 16, 2022
3m
Action focus
Composition by DFF Sound System. "I really liked both the rhythmical nature of the original recording and the space in-between the sounds. I always like investigating the sounds captured in the spaces on field recordings as it can bring some really interesting textures. I used both these textures and various effected versions of the camera clicks to build up various loops and sequences before ...
5m Aug 16, 2022
5m
The space between frames
Composition by David Fyans. "The original recording is playing back on a loop at normal speed, copies are split and patched through a number of bandpass filters, resonators and granular processors. All structural triggers/events are derived from the original recording." This is part of the Obsolete Sounds project, the world’s biggest collection of disappearing sounds and sounds that have beco...
3m Aug 16, 2022
3m
夏のポラロイド (grass stains mix)
Composition by Celestial Noise Disco. "This track is a rhythmic loft ambient meditation on summer sun, grass stains, breathless laughter, and the carefree attitude of a kid at his grandparents’ place in small town America in the early 80s as remembered through old and faded Polaroids. "The piece is constructed entirely from the original sample of a Polaroid camera taking pictures (Polaroid i-...
5m Aug 16, 2022
5m
Instant Camera Polaroid i-zone
Recording provided by Conserve The Sound. This is part of the Obsolete Sounds project, the world’s biggest collection of disappearing sounds and sounds that have become extinct – remixed and reimagined to create a brand new form of listening. Explore the whole project at https://citiesandmemory.com/obsolete-sounds
36s Aug 16, 2022
36s
35mm Camera - Voigtländer Vitessa 500S
Recording provided by Conserve The Sound. This is part of the Obsolete Sounds project, the world’s biggest collection of disappearing sounds and sounds that have become extinct – remixed and reimagined to create a brand new form of listening. Explore the whole project at https://citiesandmemory.com/obsolete-sounds
39s Aug 16, 2022
39s
35mm Camera - Lomo Action Sampler
Recording provided by Conserve The Sound. This is part of the Obsolete Sounds project, the world’s biggest collection of disappearing sounds and sounds that have become extinct – remixed and reimagined to create a brand new form of listening. Explore the whole project at https://citiesandmemory.com/obsolete-sounds
30s Aug 16, 2022
30s
Canon EOS 3000 N camera
Recording provided by Conserve The Sound. This is part of the Obsolete Sounds project, the world’s biggest collection of disappearing sounds and sounds that have become extinct – remixed and reimagined to create a brand new form of listening. Explore the whole project at https://citiesandmemory.com/obsolete-sounds
30s Aug 16, 2022
30s
Agfamatic 5008 Makro Pocket camera
Recording provided by Conserve The Sound. This is part of the Obsolete Sounds project, the world’s biggest collection of disappearing sounds and sounds that have become extinct – remixed and reimagined to create a brand new form of listening. Explore the whole project at https://citiesandmemory.com/obsolete-sounds
25s Aug 16, 2022
25s
SnapShot (35mm Agfa Silette)
Composition by Dead Kousin. "I liked the idea of challenging myself to create a piece using only the source material - the entire composition is made from the original recording with no additional sounds added. "The original recording had an inherent rhythmical element that I extrapolated into a percussion loop. "I then used multiple effects over multiple layers of the recording and built up...
2m Aug 16, 2022
2m
Slapstick
Composition by Patrick Bridge. "My piece uses the 35mm - Adox Golf 1A Rapid wind on and shutter release sound. I found it to be quite rhythmic and as I overlaid it with itself slightly out of sync a few times, an almost comical sense of space seemed to be the result. I added a few effects and some guitar sound. The initial track slowed down sounded like the old wooden slapstick used in comedy ...
7m Aug 16, 2022
7m
Ten pulse sigil; adore, commence
Composition by Clayton aka wiley soule. "The rotary dial recording is cast here as an imperative, an invocation, a conjurer's lament and view, giving out onto potential. As a teen in the 80's my first meaningful encounter with telephones was by way of the rotary interface. "Dialing was to open a portal to hope.  Invoking it brought a sort of grappling with accompanying grief, the strain of de...
3m Aug 16, 2022
3m
29th July 1992
Composition by the Figurehead. "I imagine that my old phone got dismissed on this day 30 years ago. The end of an era of naivety when phone calls had a different importance. Secrets whispered in a corridor never far enough from prying ears. "I let myself be drawn into the bittersweet nostalgia of youth, crafting sounds that remind me of those times with a FM synth (more popular back then than...
2m Aug 16, 2022
2m
Milk can reminder
Composition by Jürgen Morgenstern-Feise. "The sound of the milk can reminds me of my childhood, when I had to fetch milk from the neighbouring farmer every evening. The way there was a bit scary in winter when it was already dark and I whistled to get rid of the evil spirits in my head. For my composition, I used the entire original recording of the milk can, edited it with various apps on the...
5m Aug 16, 2022
5m
Agfa Silette-F 35mm camera
Recording provided by Conserve The Sound. This is part of the Obsolete Sounds project, the world’s biggest collection of disappearing sounds and sounds that have become extinct – remixed and reimagined to create a brand new form of listening. Explore the whole project at https://citiesandmemory.com/obsolete-sounds
39s Aug 16, 2022
39s
35mm camera - Adox Golf 1A Rapid
Recording provided by Conserve The Sound. This is part of the Obsolete Sounds project, the world’s biggest collection of disappearing sounds and sounds that have become extinct – remixed and reimagined to create a brand new form of listening. Explore the whole project at https://citiesandmemory.com/obsolete-sounds
27s Aug 16, 2022
27s
Miniset 111 telephone
Recording provided by Conserve The Sound. This is part of the Obsolete Sounds project, the world’s biggest collection of disappearing sounds and sounds that have become extinct – remixed and reimagined to create a brand new form of listening. Explore the whole project at https://citiesandmemory.com/obsolete-sounds
20s Aug 16, 2022
20s