Audio Time Capsules
Audio Time Capsules are based on vintage telephones. This technological platform provides a uniquely useful user interface for an audio time capsule, allowing the system's owner to record a personal message and send it far into the future.
This machine is a collaboration between myself and its owner. Upon its purchase, I help its owner record a short digital message, embed it into the audio archive system and then program the clock subsystem with the desired capsule opening date. This can be up to 100 years away.
Once set, the "message waiting" light will blink and the handset will tell listeners when the capsule will open, using digital speech. At the appointed time and date, the phone will ring. Whoever answers will hear the message from the past. If no one answers, the system will call back every hour. Once the message is played, the capsule remains open. From that point forward, anyone who picks up the handset will hear the message.
This system can be used to record secrets, to send advice to future generations, to record wisdom for posterity or to preserve family history. It could also be used for shorter-term special events such as an anniversary or graduation.
This piece is the simplest in a series of time capsules. A more advanced version is also available which uses a dial for user input, allowing its owner to change both recordings and opening dates at will.
As with all Time Systems, a variety of custom variants are available and collaborative commissions are welcomed. Contact me with your idea!