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Monday, December 20, 2004The Changing Sound of Sound
This weekend I read one of the best articles I've come across in a long time. Los Angeles Times writer Roy Rivenburg delivers a wonderful analysis on sound and culture. Here's the general gist:
"The slamming phone, like dozens of once-familiar sounds, is headed for extinction. As technology advances, more and more noises -- the pop of flashbulbs, the gurgle of coffee percolators, the clatter of home-movie projectors -- are fading into oblivion." How long before cell phones ONLY have a vibrate function? // posted at
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1 Comments:
What an excellent article. It's really a type of analysis that needs to be undertaken more often - architecture, for instance, could benefit from similar examination.
The author makes an incredible point at the end about how things disappear from the cultural lexicon. I remember watching the Three Stooges when I was a kid and not getting some of the jokes because many of the key objects in their bits were no longer around - they had so many bits where delivered ice (for iceboxes) was a part of the joke. But, of course, ice delivery was a thing of the long-forgotten past by the time I was watching the shorts.
It's funny, but we tend to think of the music that is disappearing more than anything else, and there are huge projects underway to preserve historic music, but things like sounds are often overlooked. Watch a Hitchcock film to remind yourself about the power of simple sounds sometime. The author might be right - alot of the power of the sounds in these films will be lost after a few more decades, since few people will recognize the noises. What a loss!
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