Rapid sound change drives nostalgic fictionalization of past sounds

Evidence

Perhaps all sound memories turn into romances. And the more quickly new sounds are hurled at us the more we are thrust back into the wells of memory, attractively fictionalizing the sounds of the past, smoothing them out into peaceful fantasies. — Schafer, Murray R, The Soundscape- Our Sonic Environment…, 607

Categorization

• SEED: A compelling reversal for an essay: the faster the world changes acoustically, the more our memory romanticizes, not distorts, what it lost.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Schafer, Murray R, The Soundscape- Our Sonic Environment…, 607
• XREF: connects to: Musical taste and harmonic conventions evolve as innovations become tradition; Used disliked music can transport a writer back to an era’s grain — Mark Fisher, Ghosts of My Life: Writings on…, 184; Found-sound music evokes orphaned memories belonging to anonymous others — Mark Fisher, Ghosts of My Life: Writings on…, 336 (+1 more)