First Signals Collection

First Signals brings together the objects, technologies, and visual fragments that first shaped our relationship with listening.

From cassette players and playback systems to instructional graphics, service manuals, and the physical culture of sound, these pieces draw from the everyday artefacts that once carried music, memory, and attention through people’s lives.

Part archive, part observation, the collection explores the tactile world of analogue listening — not through nostalgia alone, but through the textures, systems, and human interactions that surrounded it.

Some pieces feel technical.

Others feel personal.

Together they act as entry points into the wider world of Memories of Sound: a project shaped by listening, memory, and the fragile biology that makes both possible.