I haven’t had time for a proper issue of the [This Week in Sound](https://tinyletter.com/disquiet) email newsletter in some time, but here are a few recent stories of interest:
▰ This Kickstarter is like the flip of Erik Satie’s Musique d’Ameublement, dishware designed to make as little noise as possible: [kickstarter.com](https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/craveitdigital/quietware-designed-to-minimize-dish-noise-for-everyday-use?ref=discovery&term=dishes).
▰ To paraphrase Pogo, we have met the aliens and they are us: “The Most Promising Signal of Alien Intelligence Just Went Bust” by George Dvorsky ([gizmodo.com](https://gizmodo.com/the-most-promising-signal-of-alien-intelligence-just-we-1847936562)).
▰ How travel companies from airlines to hotels are shaping the sounds their customers experience, by Max Brearley: [theguardian.com](https://www.theguardian.com/travel/2021/nov/01/run-to-paradise-how-the-sound-of-travel-is-evolving-in-australia).
▰ Obituary by Tony Herrington for Ian Rawes (1965-2021), the sound recordist and archivist who founded the London Sound Survey website, [soundsurvey.org.uk](https://www.soundsurvey.org.uk/), “a web project which collected over 2,000 recordings of everyday life in London between 2008 and 2020”: [thewire.co.uk](https://www.thewire.co.uk/in-writing/essays/ian-rawes-26-february-1965-19-october-2021).
▰ A history of the development of speech recognition, by Graeme John Cole: [techradar.com](https://www.techradar.com/in/news/the-evolution-of-speech-recognition-technology).