FeTAp 79 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
32s Aug 16, 2022
32s
Milk can
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
26s Aug 16, 2022
26s
And there's the sound
Composition by Richard Watts. "The piece is composed of various samples from the original recording. The drums I made up from the clicks and tweaked them using Logic Pro. The background melody is a guitar piece I wrote but never used which has been reversed and put through a synth." This is part of the Obsolete Sounds project, the world’s biggest collection of disappearing sounds and sounds t...
3m Aug 15, 2022
3m
The heater (deep gloom mix)
Composition by Dominic Smith. "The sound of  the heater switching on and heating up took me back to 90s student bedsits and long dark winter nights. This piece is made almost entirely from the sample, imported into a modular system and triggered and modulated via a generative and evolving patch, grains of the looping sample were captured and played back through a resonator that was gradually s...
10m Aug 15, 2022
10m
Escher
Composition by autumna. "I used the original sound to complement a soundscape,  to create additional texture and add contrast.  The original sound went through a process of stretching and delaying,  followed by sampling, resampling and layering." This is part of the Obsolete Sounds project, the world’s biggest collection of disappearing sounds and sounds that have become extinct – remixed and...
5m Aug 15, 2022
5m
Bakelite light switch
Composition by Pat Daintith. "I was drawn to this sound because it was made of Bakelite - one of many quietly revolutionary products synthesised in the 20th century, notable for its functional & aesthetic applications (though no obvious, distinctive aural ones). Additionally, the light switch has an obvious rhythmic, binary quality which would lend itself to music. "All sounds on the recordin...
3m Aug 15, 2022
3m
Please leave a message
Composition by Luba Diduch. "The original recording inspired me because it is a sound I have been hearing in my house during very warm days this summer...my fan always seems to be 'on' -- its sound is omnipresent in the background. While working on this piece, I thought about and recorded other sounds in my house and considered the ways in which they layer one over the other and come to the fo...
1m Aug 15, 2022
1m
Cold hands
Composition by Catherine Boulle. "An old hand mixer grinding away, the precise revolution of its beaters soon to be phased out and then forgotten, put me in mind of the last recorded conversation I had with my grandmother as I leaned over the metal bars of the bed where she lay – and would soon die – in her old age home. Her body frail and her voice barely audible, the visit was mostly filled ...
4m Aug 15, 2022
4m
Lunch box
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
16s Aug 15, 2022
16s
Bakelite light switch
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
28s Aug 15, 2022
28s
Intercom System - Lion Solid State Intercom
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
29s Aug 15, 2022
29s
BBC Type TS 2000 fan heater
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
16s Aug 15, 2022
16s
AS fan heater
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
31s Aug 15, 2022
31s
Unknown brand hand mixer
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
24s Aug 15, 2022
24s
Automatic sleep
Composition by The Organizing Committee. "The Organizing Committee is influenced by cybernetics and analog computing. I'm an independent researcher and artist  exploring the social impacts of emerging technology. Much of my practice involves digging deep into the origins of computing to see how the logic and ideology of obsolete machines influences the use and development of today's "cutting e...
4m Aug 15, 2022
4m
Living room 1978
Composition by Moray Newlands. "The sound of the Super 8 Camera immediately transported me back to my parents living room and my dad trying to capture our lives and project some home made films. We always had a piano hence the composition based around a slightly out of tune old piano,  I wanted the composition to capture that immediate feeling of childhood nostalgia that hit me as soon as I he...
4m Aug 15, 2022
4m
Fulguro
Composition by Masobe. "I was sampling the source sound and then played it with the keys. The sound of the hair dryer is very full and noisy. In my composition, I manipulated the sound to make it more rhythmic and organic. In parts, I could detect an alien breathing. As a basis, I found the recording very inspiring, as you can digress in many directions and push into completely surprising terr...
2m Aug 15, 2022
2m
Resistance wire
Composition by Blush To The Snow. "I sought to use the sound of a hair dryer and alter its pitch until I got to a nice harmonic tone. The original sound source was run through my processing method and overlaid with the sound of a vibrating metal." This is part of the Obsolete Sounds project, the world’s biggest collection of disappearing sounds and sounds that have become extinct – remixed an...
2m Aug 15, 2022
2m
Domesticity
Composition by Eric Sluyter. "A century ago, the handheld hair dryer began its march into domestic ubiquity, promising an efficient salon treatment right at home. Pulling enormous amounts of power, these early experimental appliances were shocking, literally and sometimes fatally. In this piece of music, the sound recording of a classic 1930s Siemens EDU III hair dryer is electronically shocke...
5m Aug 15, 2022
5m
Hydra-headed hairdryer vs. rodent-resistant radiator
Composition by Fergus Kelly. "I've multi-tracked multiple pitch-shifted versions of the source sound to create a series of overlapping drones that phase and beat against each other. Shortly before starting work on this piece I had made field recordings in The National Museum of Ireland at Collins Barracks in Dublin. These consisted of various recordings of large radiators. Some were made with ...
3m Aug 15, 2022
3m
Gloria
Composition by Niki Weber. "I really enjoyed the brittle character of the sound - a Gloria hand mixer. I wanted to try giving it a tonal quality, which I did through some processing, but wanted the sound to mostly stand on its own. By elongating the sample, I realized that the sound had a vivid story of its own to tell, and I added instrumentation that served to illustrate that sense of "narra...
21m Aug 15, 2022
21m
Gloria hand mixer
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
31s Aug 15, 2022
31s
Type 466, Krups hair dryer
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
22s Aug 15, 2022
22s
EDU III, Siemens hair dryer
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
24s Aug 15, 2022
24s
EDI, Siemens hair dryer
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
21s Aug 15, 2022
21s
Braun International 1200 hair dryer
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
33s Aug 15, 2022
33s
Super 8 Camera - Bolex Paillard H8
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 15, 2022
41s
Apple iBook Duo 230
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 15, 2022
43s
Kaffeemühlekantate
Composition by Domina Acusmatica. "Kaffeemühlekantate is a 2022 composition written by the artistic collective Domina Acusmatica. The piece features the sample of Krups Type 222 Coffee Grinder and has been written for the Obsolete Sounds project. "The composition reimagines an obsolete world in both the form and the content: it is a tribute to Johann Sebastian Bach, in particular to his Kaffe...
16m Aug 15, 2022
16m
Fractured obsolescence
Composition by Mandy Hampson. "The sound of the coffee grinder sounded rhythmic to me, it sounded like it had bits in it to cut up and repurpose. I felt it could layer up and cut down, it had parts that I could build a wash of sound with and create a world to drift into. "So I set off cutting it up and effecting it out of the harsh reality sound it arrived as into something ethereal and trans...
9m Aug 15, 2022
9m
Coffee, Mrs Philips?
Composition by Laura Hills. "The Philips Type HM3210 coffee grinder is quite a funky little machine. The one I've seen online is bright orange with a two-pin plug.60s cool. As a coffee drinker who  enjoys the actual process of making coffee I imagined the pleasure of starting the process of making coffee with this cool little grinder but the perfect cup of coffee is elusive and things can go w...
4m Aug 15, 2022
4m
Sleepy coffee grinder
Composition by Farhad Ahmed. "In this composition I tried to synthesise all the sounds from the original recording. A few extra drum hits got added and the whirring of the coffee grinder got layered with a vocal sample. "The sound itself inspired because there was so much texture to work with. Whirring sounds, clicking sounds and gravel type sounds. "The idea of a coffee grinder inspired me ...
3m Aug 15, 2022
3m
Maria
Composition by Joseph Sannicandro. "Manual coffee grinders take a lot of effort. The work can be very monotonous, compounded by the fact that it is a daily labour often undertaken shortly after waking. "I thought of a scene in Vittorio De Sica's Umberto D. (1952), in which a young pregnant maid named Maria wearily prepares the morning coffee. I chopped and manipulated the sound from this scen...
1m Aug 15, 2022
1m
Krups, Type 222 coffee grinder
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
33s Aug 15, 2022
33s
Lehnartz coffee grinder
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
28s Aug 15, 2022
28s
Philips Type HM3210 coffee grinder
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
33s Aug 15, 2022
33s
Siemens Type MC 10 coffee grinder
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
29s Aug 15, 2022
29s
coffee grinder (unknown brand)
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
15s Aug 15, 2022
15s
The Clerigos Tower jazz quartet
Clerigos Tower bells reimagined by Cities and Memory. What if we reimagined the sound of pealing bells as a jazz quartet? For this composition, we've taken the sonic data from the sound of the Clerigos Tower's daily melodic performances and converted it into MIDI notes. With a little cleaning up, those notes were used to build a fictional jazz quartet of guitar, bass and drums. The guitar and...
3m Aug 15, 2022
3m
Porto's Clerigos Tower: a Portuguese soundmark
The Clerigos Tower is one of the best-known sites in Porto, but also provides one of the city's key soundmarks. Three times every day, the array of bells in the tower performs a different melodic song, with the bells ringing out for six or seven minutes at a time, right across the old city. This recording was taken during the 6pm bell session. Recorded by Cities and Memory.
5m Aug 15, 2022
5m
Algebra applies to the clouds
Composition by Jeff Dungfelder. "I was drawn to the mathematical precision of the sample “Calculating Machine”, using it as the foundation for my reimagined composition “Algebra applies to the clouds”. I pictured the disappearing sound floating away into into the clouds as they reflect in a calm lake. "A fitting farewell to a soon to be extinct sound. The sound may no longer be common in toda...
5m Aug 15, 2022
5m
The morning after
Composition by Helder Rock. "“The Morning After” is a composition all inspired by the sound I was allocated: Coffee Grinder - Krups Type 207; therefore, as I only drink coffee in the morning, I had the idea of representing through an atmospheric music, using synthesizers, someone dreaming and then being awaken by a blackbird singing in the morning and then go and prepare a coffee. "The origin...
8m Aug 15, 2022
8m
Coffee morning
Composition by Andrew Tulloch. "This piece was mostly inspired by drinking some coffee on the beach, and the enjoyable clarity which came about as a result. Having said that, it’s as much an exploration of the interesting harmonics contained in the original recording! "It’s also a reflection on the repetition involved in a near-lifetime habit of coffee drinking, and the process of waking up, ...
7m Aug 15, 2022
7m
Drying beds
Composition by Whettman Chelmets. "The original recording had two distinct characteristics - a clinking type sound that was more rhythmic, and a droning type quality with the actual grinder turned on. "The rhythm at the beginning was fed into various samplers and converted to midi to trigger a couple of piano-like instruments that informed the beginning, while the drone like quality informed ...
2m Aug 15, 2022
2m
Unstable clicktrack
Composition by Growth Spert. "I manipulated the time and pitch, layered copies of the original recording out of time with each other, as well as added echo, reverb, and delay to provide a more creative version of a click track that is meant to provide random moments of inspiration for original, creative compositions when playing instruments alongside it as opposed to playing alongside a perfec...
2m Aug 15, 2022
2m
Lead moving sound
Composition by Owen Vince. "‘Lead moving sound’ makes use of a sound from the Obsolete Sounds archive – a rapid plastic shuffling of a cassette’s spools being wound. With the composition, I processed the sound; stretching and slowing its duration. I was interested in drawing out the mechanical gears and teeth that make up the cassette – exploring both its fragility and its hardiness. "In the ...
8m Aug 15, 2022
8m
Cassette tape
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
26s Aug 15, 2022
26s
Click clack balls
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
13s Aug 15, 2022
13s
AEG Type KME 2 coffee grinder
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
29s Aug 15, 2022
29s
AEG Type KME 4 coffee grinder
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 15, 2022
34s