To motivate others to put these insights into practice, we offer a design challenge: What would your own personal sonic archive contain? How would you engage with it? How would it change you? Rather than provide design guidelines, we present Terms of Service inspired by modular synthesis and digital gardening.
By engaging with sound as a material for continuous configuration and re-configuration, you agree to the following principles. Unlike corporate TOS that constrain your actions and compel you to give up your data, these terms are meant to support agency, creativity, and reflective listening experiences:
To accept these terms of service, make a sound you have never made before. You do not need to record it, but you may if you like.