Friday, April 15, 2016

M Is For Museum Of Endangered Sounds #AtoZChallenge

Photo of Tamagotchi courtesy Tomasz Sienicki


How many of you can recall the unique sounds of a dot matrix printer, a Tamagotchi, or the mother-of-all-earworms, the Tetris tune?

As technology changes and advances, the sounds of an age slowly disappear. Fortunately a fellow by the name of Brendan Chilcutt has set to work preserving some of those sounds from the not-so-distant past in the Museum Of Endangered Sounds (SaveTheSounds) 

Stop by and listen to the soothing notes of a Macintosh startup or the energetic clattering of a Telex. Introduce your kids to those treasured memories from your past. Enlist a co-worker in a game of "guess the sound". Play several sounds at once and create a musical composition.

Enjoy! 

9 comments:

  1. This comment has been removed by the author.

    ReplyDelete
  2. There are probably many lost sounds that I would prefer remain lost. However, nostalgia does funny things to perception, and we end up missing things which, at the time, we hated. Often, this is because of their familiarity and their links to things that we remember with fondness.

    Keith Channing A-Zing from http://keithkreates.com

    ReplyDelete
    Replies
    1. You've hit the nail on the head. It's part of the package of memories that we carry - and it's really cool when these things are preserved so that they can be assed down to future generations.

      Delete
  3. This archive could go a long way to explain to younger generations why Gen Xers like me hate printers and desktop printing so, so much. I remember in teacher's college getting up at 6am to print the lesson plans I'd finished at midnight, because to print them when they were done would wake up my landlady downstairs.

    ReplyDelete
  4. play bazaar
    The San Gabriel Mountains rise like a rampart at the edge of the city, safeguarding more than 500,000 acres of mature forests, mountain streams, dramatic waterfalls, and towering peaks that reach over 9,000 feet. These untamed places attract bighorn sheep, mountain lions, and other threatened or endangered species.
    visit our site sattaking

    ReplyDelete