29th July 1992

Aug 16, 2022, 08:37 AM

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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 subtractive synthesis). I used the sounds of the old phone as percussive elements and, stretched and processed beyond recognition, as background noise. 
(https://thefigurehead.bandcamp.com/)"

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