Click tick tin

Composition by Pie Are Squared. 

"The concept behind this track was to represent the typewriter as the birthplace of millions of ideas of all sorts, from the banal to the transcendent, and the vehicle that allowed these ideas to grow and materialise.  The track’s four sections attempt to represent those disparate ideas through epic horn sections, click and cut microedits and glitches, and outright chaos. 

"The sound of the typewriter sample is there throughout but the environments and moods surrounding it shift and change. From a sound sign point of view, the vast majority of the sounds and textures on the track we made by sampling, resampling, stretching, shifting and chopping the typewriter’s clickety-clack typing sound. The ring sound made when the end of the a page is reached was looped in a sampler to create some of the key and organ sounds heard on the track."

This is part of the Obsolete Sounds project, the world’s biggest collection of disappearing sounds and sounds that have become extinct – remixed and reimagined to create a brand new form of listening. Explore the whole project at https://citiesandmemory.com/obsolete-sounds