Slow Radio
Slow Radio
BBC Radio 3
Forgotten Sounds
30 minutes Posted Oct 4, 2018 at 3:59 pm.
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The music of typewriters, steam engines, foundries and looms. These previously-familiar, now long-forgotten sounds transport us back in time, evoking memories, and creating a strangely meditative effect.

Composer Iain Chambers creates a radiophonic sequence from the huge recording archive of the pan-EU Sounds of Changes project, a collaboration between 6 major European museums to document the huge change within our acoustic landscape.