Piece based on telegraph sounder and speaking telephone by John Wiggins. "Such early technology, I had to use granular synthesis to go back in time and get down to the "quanta" of what this object sounded like then and what it sounds like now." Part of the Smithsonian Treasures project, a collection of new sound works inspired by items from the Smithsonian Museums’ collections - for more information, see http://www.citiesandmemory.com/smithsonian
