Those of us who’ve been involved with many organisations know how different working environments can be. From cloistered offices in CBD towers to the open-plan floors of restored warehouses, they come in a variety of shapes and forms.
However, these spaces do share something in common – noise. Modern workspaces possess common sounds: the tapping of keyboards; the hum of servers and fluorescent lights; the flat tones of digital telecommunications systems.
Every once and a while - not often - sounds appear that are familiar but seem so alien in our current surrounds. These echoes of the past remind us of the changes we have taken for granted but failed to appreciate: the loud tacking of a typewriter; the high-pitched bleat of a dot matrix printer. For me, reminiscences are strongest when I hear the unique character of an aging ceramic, dial-faced telephone.
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