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"I grew up in a house without electricity, so the sound of striking matches remains very familiar to my ears; they were an essential item to ignite candles and lamps and stoves. I also began the Void Sigil project intending to eschew culturally-specific elements in music, and creating fire with matches seemed to be an appropriate cultural universal. 

"I began my composition by isolating individual match strikes and building rhythms out of them, but I eventually incorporated fewer rhythmic elements and relied more on time-stretched versions of the original sound, layered and manipulated through various effects. While it was not my original intent, I ultimately incorporated no other sound sources beyond the original recording of matches being struck."

Composition by Void Sigil. 

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