Brendan Chilcutt ist der Bewahrer von vor dem Aussterben bedrohter Klänge! Auf seiner 2012 gestarteten Webseite The Museum of Endangered Sounds rettete er unzählige sehr bekannte Geräusche und Klänge von älteren Technologien, Software und elektronischen Geräten.
Ein tolles Projekt, hört mal rein!
For instance, the textured rattle and hum of a VHS tape being sucked into the womb of a 1983 JVC HR-7100 VCR. As you probably know, it’s a wonderfully complex sound, subtle yet unfiltered. But, as streaming playback becomes more common in the US, and as people in developing nations like Canada and the UK get brought up to DVD players, it’s likely that the world will have seen and heard the last of older machines like the HR-7100. And as new products come to market, we stand to lose much more than VCRs.
Imagine a world where we never again hear the symphonic startup of a Windows 95 machine. Imagine generations of children unacquainted with the chattering of angels lodged deep within the recesses of an old cathode ray tube TV. And when the entire world has adopted devices with sleek, silent touch interfaces, where will we turn for the sound of fingers striking QWERTY keypads? Tell me that. And tell me: Who will play my GameBoy when I’m gone?
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