Quest for Sound is a call to listeners to send in their home recordings of the last one hundred years to be shaped into stories that capture the rituals and sounds of everyday life.

Photo courtesy of Michael Blake

We're asking you for your favorite sonic artifacts. If you have audio treasures to send us, call us first at our National Quest for Sound Hotline. We want to hear what we all decided was worth saving about ourselves, the ordinary and fabulous, the joyous and miserable, the ancient and the modern.

We want recorded letters sent home from the war, debate club practice tapes, pen-pal audio files from the Internet, personal recordings of historical events, your unique collection of doorbell sounds. What else is out there? You tell us.

We want your sounds and the stories that go with them... the childhood voices of famous men, the recorded letters of lovers, mysterious dialogues on forgotten cassettes found by the side of the road.

Quest for Sound Curator Jay Allison