Little machines

"My grandmother used to have an old sewing machine. The ones that were like this kind of wooden furniture. When I was a child I used to play with it without having any relevant knowledge. When my grandmother was working on that machine, the sound used to fill up the old house and was massive to my ears back then. It was so interesting the fact that when you listened to the machine from the room below, you could identify a continuous drone, besides the rhythmic mechanic sound. This is the feeling I wanted to recreate with the track I did.


"I used the original recording at the opening of the track, and then I continued using it through a modular synth, combining it with synthesizer sounds that resembled the drone I was listening to back then at my grandmother's house."

Composition by Savvas Metaxas. 

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