The Sonikcycle Syndicate

Soundufama-san & Kotuwan-sa were still on rewind when DJ Yuta made the play.

I just read a tweet from Kate, Twitter compadre and inspiration. She had said, “mmmm… new phone smell…” It never occurred to me that she must’ve just purchased an iPhone or some such nifty gadget. The first thing that popped into my head was, “mmmm… old phone sound…” My next thought was, “I should post that to Twitter, and for full effect link out to a recording of the metal bell ringer in the old brown telephone that is attached to the wall of my groovy grad pad in “married housing” at Central Michigan University. ” So, I did… I got a friend to call the number and let it ring whilst I captured the distinctive sound of its nearly-forgotten ringer, then pushed it up on to the Web here (complete with full sustain and kids yelling in the background).

I’m infatuated with old stuff (no, I don’t “collect”) and I could spend hours perusing old photos on Shorpy, or reminiscing about my old black Western Electric rotary dial telephone with a handset so heavy you knew you were ON THE TELEPHONE, not to mention the bodily harm you could do with it…

Anyway, I have to laugh at myself because after going through all that (only about 10 minutes), and feeling so jolly about my clever sense of humor & warm connectedness with the day-to-day affairs of others, I realized that as in the story of Sonikcycle, I’m the only one who’d get it. Given the fleeting nature of Twittering, the intended recipient, Kate, probably didn’t even notice my so-called response, much less click out and listen to the ringer–even if she did, past experience would suggest that the full picture of this fanciful free association will remain concealed by the dark shadows of Web obscurity and the cryptic clips of tweets & twits.

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