welcome to the first public museum of sound. this is a non-profit site dedicated to the examination and organisation of sound. it is not intended at this early stage to contain recordings of music or the human voice, but instead to be a living archive of sound.
it has a free admission policy and anyone is free to upload. for financial reasons, we can only afford to allow short mp3s at the moment. whilst this is frustrating from an audio quality point of view, the purpose of the site is to document the sounds themselves and is less concerned with the media.
there is no brief for the nature of sound to be exhibited, the museum is equally interested in the mundane as the unique. at present we have divided the work in to two categories: the ordinary and the extraordinary. we are happy to hear the ordinary sound of your front door closing, or the extraordinary sound of 10,000 front doors closing at the same time.
we have had the recorded image for many thousands of years from cave paintings to youtube. recorded sound however has only really existed since the mid 19th century. as such we have only just begun to examine the world through the medium of sound. this museum intends to kick start that process.
the museum is not part of an institution, has no affiliation with any existing academic body and has no political or corporate agenda. it is simply a place for people to listen to, and archive, that wondrous thing we call sound.