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SaveTheSounds
This interactive audio museum is run by Brendan Chilcutt, but it is only a pseudonym coined by three American students in 2012 - Phil Hadad, Marybeth Ledesma and Greg Elwood.
The museum's collection is small and has just over 30 exhibits - for example, the rustle of a modem, a Nokia push-button melody and a ZX Spectrum squeak. Also in the library there is a Macintosh iconic alert - the phrase It's not my fault! which the system voiced on error.
Screenshot: SaveTheSounds
To listen to the sound of interest, you need to click on the corresponding picture on the main page. According to the authors, the site of the museum was conceived as a kind of DJ console, but its implementation so far allows us to speak only of potential from a historical point of view.
Conserve the Sound
This museum was founded by two designers from a German creative agency - Daniel Chun and Jan Derksen. They collect the sounds of objects from past years that are already out of use or are about to do so.
The library is quite extensive - it contains sounds of car engines ( Citroën 2CV and Opel Astra F ), VCRs , typewriters and laptops ( Apple iBook ). There are also household items - a hair dryer , a fan , a manual coffee grinder and even an aluminum can .
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Filters help you navigate the site - the collection is broken down by brands, years of release or types of items or devices. The entire librarycan be downloadedand used as samples for writing music or creating effects. True, this is a paid option.
More sounds of a bygone era
The sounds of technology from the last century can be found on YouTube. On the site, enthusiasts form entire playlists . There is a video of a dot matrix printer and a floppy drive , the clicking of an iconic IBM Model M keyboard and the sounds of loading Atari XE / XL cassettes .
Sound museums are also opening in Russia - they offer to listen to the noise of a punched tape passing through the Swedish Facit N4000 machine, or the squeak when Arkanoid is launched on Iskra 1030M.
There are places where you can dive into the space theme. NASA maintains a SoundCloud account . It contains a collection of recordings of radio communications during the Apollo and Mercury missions and the Space Shuttle flights . There are also audio recordings with the launch of rocket engines .
Other findings of the audiomaniac:
Where to listen to the music of the last century The
tree of musical genres and airs of satellites
Sound maps of unfamiliar cities