Conserve the Sound: Online archive for dying sounds







Conserve the Sound is the name of a cool website that saves dying noises: 8 mm film projector, flight in the Ju 52, cassette recorder, analog button telephone and many more.

Do you remember what an 8mm film projector sounds like? Or how it sounds when you unfold one of the legendary Falk plans? Can you imagine how loud a flight in the Junkers Ju 52 “Tante Ju” is? Or what does fast-forwarding on a tape recorder sound like? Yes? Then the German website Conserve the Sound should evoke wistful memories in you. For the younger generation, i.e. for the smartphone generation, many of the noises stored on this website are likely to be “uncharted territory” – just as the internet is (or at least was) for Chancellor Angela Merkel. So that the smartphone generation can also imagine something about the respective noise, several photos are available for each device presented.

Here you will find the entire list of devices recorded so far. An impressive spectrum of former everyday noises that are rarely, if at all, heard nowadays “in the wild”. For example a mechanical typewriter, an old analog telephone or a mechanical stopwatch or the sound of a mechanical handbrake being applied in a car. Because the latter are increasingly being replaced by electrically triggered hand brakes (with a small button instead of a large lever).

However, we miss two very important and typical noises: a) the annoying crackling and chirping of an analog modem. And b) the rhythmic rattle of an air-cooled VW boxer engine from the pre-defeat device era.

PS: The swearing of the user when he / she has finally torn up the complicated folded Falkplan or can no longer fold it properly is not stored in the online archive …

For a while, you could use this link to upload the audio files you recorded and some photos of the audio source. The sound document should be available as MP3 with 192 kBit / s and a maximum of 45 seconds in length. The accompanying photos should be JPGEs. But this upload option has not been available for a long time.

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