Let us ask you instead.

Do you keep letters from your loved ones?  How about your child’s first drawings?  May be, your teenage poems?  Every person has a natural desire to preserve things that are precious to him, that bring up good memories, the ones into which a lot of effort and a piece of heart were invested.

Undoubtedly, any family has at least one photo album, and its value far exceeds the cost of a roll of film and its development: it is memory, a fragment of the days that are gone now, but which will forever stay with you.  And it’s totally inconsequential that those pictures might never get to a photo exhibit or an art gallery (although, you really never know…) – they are important to you and your family.  Isn’t that the best reason?

For quite a number of years, photography has been and still is the main method of “freezing the moment”, however, it is definitely not omnipotent.  We know a lot of people who made music an integral part of their whole existence – and we are not talking about professional musicians and performers: they are already being recorded by big studios, performing in front of thousands-strong audiences, and sign multi-million dollars contracts.  However, if quality photography is within everybody’s reach by now, it’s far from being the case with sound recording.