So, when we think about our technology, why are we using it? What does it aid us with? Is it there to allow us to remember, to inscribe, to use as a tool for continuation or for connection? And I found the first recording ever of a bird which was made, it was actually done by an eight-year-old child from Germany, called Ludwig Koch. And yes, he made this as an eight-year-old. Probably he had access somehow to this recording device. It was made in 1868. The recording is only ten seconds long, but I thought it was a nice way just to think about listening in relation to technology and why do we use or how do we kind of use technology as a bridge between time and place?

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