Culture Memory boxes help families remember lost voices - Interviews are stored in a wooden box designed to resemble a vintago radio.

A PhD student has been creating audio memory boxes for hospice patients.

Isaac Gibson is studying at the Sonic Arts Research Centre in Queen’s University Belfast.

As part of his research, he recorded interviews with hospice patients and combined them with fitting music and sound effects.

Each recording is accessed through a handmade wooden box, designed to resemble a vintage radio.

The purpose was to create individual listening experiences for patients and their families.

Isaac contacted Marie Curie hospice with the idea after first recording a series of interviews with his terminally-ill grandfather.

He has created 10 memory boxes for Marie Curie hospice patients in Northern Ireland.

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[Nasty Habits]

This is pretty sweet, I suppose. I hope it's not his dissertation topic, because I and everyone else can do the same exact 'project' with 20 bucks and a whole lot less in student debt.

 

[Brett DeLawyer]

It’s creepy, but I get it. I ugly cried the day I realized I couldn’t remember my Grandmother’s voice anymore.

Could probably do without “fitting music and sound effects,” though. Kind of cheapens the thing.