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K7 Mémoire is a Sanity Challenge Path Two project by Chaminade Dondah Adjolou of Lomé, Togo. It presents family oral histories as tapes on a virtual radio deck rather than as a conventional list of posts. The live demo is designed to make memories feel like something to tune in to; it is not yet a service for recording or uploading family audio.
What is K7 Mémoire?
K7 Mémoire is an oral-memory archive interface built around a simple premise: family history in Lomé often travels by voice before it reaches the page. Instead of placing stories in a feed or card grid, the project turns Sanity content into tapes that visitors can tune, filter, and play.
The project’s visual language borrows from cassette decks and radio equipment: an FM-style dial, mood filters, reels, a counter, VU meters, a rolling transcript, and a kente stripe. These details are more than decoration. They give readers a tactile-feeling way to browse and listen to stories while keeping the underlying archive organized as structured content.
Open the K7 Mémoire demo or visit its embedded Sanity Studio.
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- DUAL SPEED DUBBING: The dual cassette tape deck provides normal & high-speed audio cassette dubbing.
- MORE CONTROL OVER PRODUCTION: The cassette deck includes an integrated 3-digit tape counter, CrO2 tape selector, and auto tape selector. It provides excellent recording level command for increased production levels.
- SEAMLESS INTERFACE CONNECTIONS: The dual cassette deck provides a digital link interface for connecting to the PT600A amplifier. Amplifier not included. Included are RCA line inputs and outputs.
- MULTI-FUNCTION DISPLAY: The audio cassette deck has a dual color multi-purpose fluorescent display for ease of use.
- SUPPRESS OUTSIDE NOISE: Enjoy dynamic noise reduction and control over record and play level meters.
Can you preserve family memories with it?
The project demonstrates one useful part of preservation: giving oral histories a consistent structure and a place where people can discover them. Its two Sanity document types separate each story from the person telling it, while allowing the interface to bring the related information together at display time.
Stories and narrators
A story, labeled “Bande” in the Studio, can include a title, slug, narrator reference, place, era, transcript, tags, mood, and optional audioUrl. A narrator, labeled “Narrateur,” holds a name, a short bio of up to 280 characters, and an optional photo with a hotspot. The narrator’s name and bio live with the narrator record rather than being copied into each story.
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- DUAL SPEED DUBBING: The dual cassette tape deck provides normal & high-speed audio cassette dubbing.
- MORE CONTROL OVER PRODUCTION: The cassette deck includes an integrated 3-digit tape counter, CrO2 tape selector and auto tape selector. It provides excellent recording level command for increased production level. The auto stop function provides further regulation over end result
- SEAMLESS INTERFACE CONNECTIONS: The dual cassette deck provides a digital link interface for connecting to the PT600A amplifier. Amplifier not included. Included are RCA line inputs and outputs
- MULTI-FUNCTION DISPLAY: The audio cassette deck has a dual color multi-purpose fluorescent display for ease of use.
- VOLUME CONTROL: Enjoy dynamic noise reduction and control over record and play level meters with the dual cassette radio.
A shared GROQ projection joins the narrator’s details to each story when the app reads the content. The project uses the same query shape for the Sanity Content Lake and its local seed documents, so demo mode follows the same content model rather than introducing a separate set of sample fields.
*[_type == "story"] | order(era asc) {
_id,
title,
"slug": slug.current,
place,
era,
mood,
tags,
audioUrl,
transcript,
"narratorName": narrator->name,
"narratorBio": narrator->bio,
"narratorPhoto": narrator->photo.asset->url
}The submission reports that the seed drawer contains four narrators and eight stories. Those are project-specific demo counts, not a measure of the archive’s scale or of oral-history collections generally.
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- Versatile CD and cassette player: The Teac AD-850-SE offers CD MP3 playback, USB recording and playback, as well as a cassette deck with pitch control and timer recording function
- USB RECORDING AND PLAYBACK Allows you to record CDs, cassettes and external devices on USB flash drives as MP3 files, as well as playback MP3 files on USB flash drives and external devices
- MIC INPUT & ECHO EFFECT Features a microphone input on the front of the device and an echo effect for the sound of the connected microphone, ideal for karaoke enthusiasts (separate amplifier and speaker required)
- HIGH QUALITY CASSETTE DECK The two-head one Way design supports cassette tapes with normal, chromed and metallic formulation/position and provides all the important features such as pitch control and timer recording and playback
- Extensive CD Player Functions: Support CD-R/RW disc and MP3 file playback, ID3 tags and file name display, various playback modes such as program, random playback and repeat
What happens when you play a tape?
Visitors can select a story and use the deck-like controls to move through it. When a story has an audioUrl, the interface can use that audio. In the early demo, there are no audio files, so “play” advances the counter and the transcript provides the listening experience. That distinction matters: the cassette metaphor does not mean the site digitizes or plays recordings that are not there.
The demo also makes some of its technical machinery visible. A service-manual treatment prints the GROQ query in the interface, so editors learning Sanity can see how the displayed stories relate to the content model. The Studio uses Bandes and Voix desks and includes Vision for working with queries.
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- DUAL SPEED DUBBING: The dual cassette tape deck provides normal and high speed audio cassette dubbing.
- MORE CONTROL OVER PRODUCTION: The cassette deck includes a 3 digit tape counter, CrO2 tape selector, and auto tape selector. It provides excellent recording level control for increased production level. The auto stop function provides further control over the end result.
- SEAMLESS INTERFACE CONNECTIONS: The dual cassette deck provides a digital link interface for connecting to the PT600A amplifier. Amplifier not included. Included are RCA line inputs and outputs.
- MULTI FUNCTION DISPLAY: The audio cassette deck has a dual color multi purpose fluorescent display for ease of use
- SUPPRESS OUTSIDE NOISE: Enjoy dynamic noise reduction and control over record and play level meters.
What is the site built with?
The documented stack is Next.js App Router, TypeScript, Tailwind, next-sanity, Sanity v6, and Vision, with deployment on Vercel. The author describes several implementation choices: creating the Next.js app in a subdirectory before moving it to the repository root, using tsx --test after encountering Vitest peer-dependency friction, and adding an alias in next.config.ts to address a Turbopack production issue involving the swr package’s react-server export. Studio was placed behind a client boundary to keep it out of the React Server Components graph.
When the first environment lacked Sanity credentials, the project shipped a labeled demo mode backed by seed documents. An empty Content Lake is shown as an open tray; a failed query produces an error instead of silently inventing tapes. Those choices help distinguish an empty archive from a broken connection.
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- Dual Cassette decks for REC/play (on both decks) with independent mechanisms. Noise reduction system suppresses hiss during playback (Equivalent to Dolby B). mic input with mic mixing for Karaoke and announcement applications. One-touch Dubbing, 12% pitch control and A-B repeat. Parallel recording for recording to two tapes at the same time. Usb output for digital recording on PC/Mac at CD-quality (48kHz/16-bit PCM).
- Normal (Type I) and chrome (Type II) tapes REC/play (Auto detect). metal (Type IV) tape play (Auto detect). REC mute creates four second silences with one touch, or silences of other lengths as desired. Timer REC/play ready 1. Four-digit digital tape counters. Rtz (Return to zero) function for one-touch Return to the tape counter "0000" Position. Repeat play (playback stops after a maximum of 20 repetitions). 12% pitch control 2. Dimmable fluorescent display with level meters.
- Rca analogue input jacks. 6. 3mm (1/4") stereo headphone output jack. Remote control included. Rohs Compliant.
- Drawing on teac’s proud heritage in creating world class tape recorders, an authentic double Cassette deck for the modern day. . . The w-1200 is a double Cassette deck featuring two, one-way Cassette decks, mic mixing, a USB digital output and other versatile recording features. In recent times, Cassette tapes have fascinated those whom have never used them, thanks to their warm, distinctly analogue sound, not to mention the ease of recording and the ability to create ‘mix-tapes’.
- Furthermore, the w-1200 can deliver digital Audio at CD-quality (up to 48kHz/16-bit PCM) to a computer via a USB cable, allowing digital archiving of your cassette tape library. Once you’ve digitised them on a computer, you’re able to enjoy your old tape-based music library anytime anywhere via a network player, DAP, smartphone or even in your car.
What the demo does not do yet
K7 Mémoire is currently a structured oral-memory interface, not a recording service. The early demo does not include family audio, and the project describes real recordings as a future addition. Anyone considering a similar archive should treat permission, consent, and the handling of sensitive family stories as part of the product design—not as problems solved by a cassette-themed interface.
The author’s roadmap calls for adding real family recordings with consent-conscious, low-friction UX; expanding the places and eras represented as the Content Lake grows; and building a “donate a tape” flow that creates a draft story in Studio. Another proposed addition is Vision-assisted querying from the service manual to help editors learn GROQ. These are plans, not features established in the current demo.
What K7 Mémoire shows about oral-history websites
The project is a compact example of how a familiar physical object can shape digital discovery without replacing a sound archive’s underlying content model. Its strongest idea is the pairing of a playful deck metaphor with explicit structured data: visitors get a distinctive way to browse, while editors work with linked story and narrator records.
For anyone adapting the idea, the practical decisions are separate from the aesthetic one: decide whether the archive will hold transcripts, audio, or both; define how narrators and stories relate; and establish consent and provenance practices before inviting people to contribute recordings. K7 Mémoire points toward that workflow, but its present demo remains transcript-led.
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