Obsolete Sounds by Cities and Memory

This album compiles some of the highlights of Obsolete Sounds, the world's biggest collection of obsolete and disappearing sounds, covering everything from dusty VHS cassettes, vintage video games and old mobile phones to melting glacier ice and endangered traditional songcraft.

The project documents not just the much-missed sounds that evoke memories from the past, but also highlights some that we’re in danger of losing. It aims to draw attention to the world’s disappearing soundscapes, and what we can do to preserve and save socially and culturally important sounds for future generations.

The collection includes:

- Obsolete home entertainment such as VHS tapes, Walkman cassette players, video games consoles and film projectors
- Vintage military equipment like World War II codebreaking machines, warplanes and air raid sirens
- The evocative sounds of old typewriters, Teletype machines and printing presses
- The world of transport - steam trains, vintage racing cars, 100-year-old farm equipment and London Underground C-stock
- Domestic appliances from the past including hand mixers, Bakelite switches, fans, shavers and coffee grinders
- Reflections on the disappearing sounds of the natural world, industrial processes and cultural traditions.

The project can be explored in full - along with more than 100 other sounds - at www.citiesandmemory.com/obsolete-sounds

Cities and Memory is one of the world’s biggest sound projects, a global, collaborative sound art and field recording programme with the aim of remixing the world, one sound at a time. It covers more than 130 countries and territories with 7,000+ sounds and more than 2,000 contributing artists.
Thousands of field recordings, recomposed and reimagined by artists around the world.

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