Las Rifas del Jefe
Aug 18, 2022, 03:29 PM
Composition by Jonatan de Jesús Carrasco Hernández.
"I have many memories about me and the typewriters, in my house we had one of them. When I reach the middle school, I had a workshop of typing where we had to bring our own typewriter and practice the typing, all my friends had the same typewriter and mine was a little different because it was white (the other's typewriters were brown) and it has written in script. I spend two years carrying the typewriter several times a week.
The real special moment that I remember of the typewriter was when my dad used it. He made a lot of raffles during many years, the way he made the raffles was: he bought some electronic device (a TV, a Radio, an oven, etc.) and he made a list of 10 numbers that he sold to different persons, it was a hard job because he had to walk a lot to promote the products and then when somebody bought a number almost always they paid the price in parts so my dad had another list of the persons and how much money they owed him, every day he had to walk around town to charge them until they paid the complete amount they owed.
"My dad wrote the list with the typewriter (this typewriter was mechanical), he described all the qualities of the products, the date of the raffle and other information, so the text was a little large. That's why he used a lot the typewriter because he wrote a lot and it is a memory that I have, the relation of my father with the typewriter and the sound of his typing, also he drew with pens a framework to make it look more striking. After a while, electronic typewriters appear, and he stopped using the antique typewriter and he bought a new one. The new typewriter was electric and did not the same sound because it just printed and the sound that made was only like a motor, then he could do the job easier and faster, also the typewriter could print lines, so he had not to draw them.
"The piece its inspired in my own experience of with the typewriter and with my dad's story, the sound that my father did when he wrote, the hard job he made by walking a lot and the change to the new equipment, everything sounds in my music (or at least I try to represent it), the sound of the typewriter and the modifications of it, the atmosphere of my feelings to now how much effort he puts in his job and in the end the sounds of the new typewriter that finish the story. The tittle “las rifas del jefe” means “The raffles of boss” because in Mexico we have a way to treat the fathers respectfully but in a familiar way with the words “boss”."
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
"I have many memories about me and the typewriters, in my house we had one of them. When I reach the middle school, I had a workshop of typing where we had to bring our own typewriter and practice the typing, all my friends had the same typewriter and mine was a little different because it was white (the other's typewriters were brown) and it has written in script. I spend two years carrying the typewriter several times a week.
The real special moment that I remember of the typewriter was when my dad used it. He made a lot of raffles during many years, the way he made the raffles was: he bought some electronic device (a TV, a Radio, an oven, etc.) and he made a list of 10 numbers that he sold to different persons, it was a hard job because he had to walk a lot to promote the products and then when somebody bought a number almost always they paid the price in parts so my dad had another list of the persons and how much money they owed him, every day he had to walk around town to charge them until they paid the complete amount they owed.
"My dad wrote the list with the typewriter (this typewriter was mechanical), he described all the qualities of the products, the date of the raffle and other information, so the text was a little large. That's why he used a lot the typewriter because he wrote a lot and it is a memory that I have, the relation of my father with the typewriter and the sound of his typing, also he drew with pens a framework to make it look more striking. After a while, electronic typewriters appear, and he stopped using the antique typewriter and he bought a new one. The new typewriter was electric and did not the same sound because it just printed and the sound that made was only like a motor, then he could do the job easier and faster, also the typewriter could print lines, so he had not to draw them.
"The piece its inspired in my own experience of with the typewriter and with my dad's story, the sound that my father did when he wrote, the hard job he made by walking a lot and the change to the new equipment, everything sounds in my music (or at least I try to represent it), the sound of the typewriter and the modifications of it, the atmosphere of my feelings to now how much effort he puts in his job and in the end the sounds of the new typewriter that finish the story. The tittle “las rifas del jefe” means “The raffles of boss” because in Mexico we have a way to treat the fathers respectfully but in a familiar way with the words “boss”."
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