I am so into found sound.  There is nothing like listening to (sometimes it feels more like eavesdropping) beat up old tapes from a thrift store marked with a sharpie pen.   The internet offers a wide range of audio available from answering machines recordings to audio letters to audio diaries.  Listening to these sounds brings up ideas about history, technology and I wonder what will happen since the delete button is so easily used nowadays with digital media.  Will the connection with this type of ephemera be lost forever?  Perhaps blogs will be the new lost and found find for the future of the people’s history.  Here is an excerpt from a answering machine found on Sweet Thunder:

“Hi Alice this is Alice – I am just calling to wish you an early happy new year and to see if you got a delivery- I still haven’t heard anything from Sherry’s floral… So um I was kinda hoping you would say yes you had received it otherwise I need to make another phone call… start my new year off right with bitching.  I will talk to you later bye bye.”

Thank goodness for all of these amazing sites:

kitchen sisters / wfmu / 365 days / tape findings / voice mail project

found tape project / internet archive / the books / found sound tumblr