"Manual coffee grinders take a lot of effort. The work can be very monotonous, compounded by the fact that it is a daily labour often undertaken shortly after waking.
"I thought of a scene in Vittorio De Sica's Umberto D. (1952), in which a young pregnant maid named Maria wearily prepares the morning coffee. I chopped and manipulated the sound from this scene to provide the structure over which I arranged loops made from the coffee grinder, recorded onto a four-track TASCAM using a 60-second infinite loop cassette."
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
