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Scott Friedman commutes to his job in NYC from Stamford, Connecticut. He calls from his car to describe the morning of September 11. He remembers the sound of his car and the traffic jam he sat in while watching the towers fall.

Jackie Murray says her sound is no sound, the defining silence.

Erwin Fry worked in 2 WTC for many years and remembers the building creaking on windy days.

An anonymous man calls to say he is sorry he never visited the towers and describes their beauty.

Ashley visited New York from the Berkshires when she was seven. Of her visit to the WTC, she remembers that she didn't trust the man-made mountains but that standing on the observation deck, with its silence and the wind, was like being on a…

Brian Parsons remembers catching sight of the WTC from the windows of airplanes. The sound he associates with the tower is the strange white noise of the airplane.

Indiana resident Chris Countryman feels it is important for the archive to include the sounds of the towers collapsing.

In 1996 artist Carl Scorza helped establish the World Views artists in residence program at the WTC. He was in the first group of artists to be given studio space in the towers--his was on the 86th floor. He talks about being a part of the program…

Benjamin and Michelle Barshay got married at Windows on the World in 1985, and they live and work in the area. They considered the WTC to be their backyard. They have video of the scene outside their windows on 9/11.

Susannah Kelly lives in California now, but she grew up in Manhattan at Westbeth, the artists' community on West Street looking south. On a visit home after 9/11, she taped conversations with mother, brother, and people on the street about their…

By chance, WTC electrician Harold Maguire left the building 20 minutes before the first plane hit. He describes how strange it felt to have people calling to see if he was alive.

Helen Engelhart had her 60th birthday party at Windows on the World. She has a tape recording of the party and pictures of the party's organizer, Jackie Sayegh Duggan, who died on 9/11.

Chris worked as a guard at the WTC in the late 1970s and had several amorous encounters in the stairwell, especially on the 78th floor. He got caught, though. After that, he was assigned to work in the sub-basement, eight floors belowground.

Utah resident Natalie Hickan describes The Cruise, a 1998 documentary about the eccentric tour guide, Timothy Speed Levitch. In the film, he spins around beneath the towers and imagines them falling on him.

Heather, a New York City resident, describes two concerts she heard at the World Financial Center. At one, she Bang on a Can performed a cover of Brian Eno's Music for Airports. At the second, she saw Meredith Monk. She also describes a drug…

Singer James Hamilton describes We Will Overcome, a song he recorded as a memorial to 9/11.

Charter boat captain Patrick Harris had docked his boat at the World Financial Center on September 11 and was there when he saw the first jet hit the tower. He immediately radioed the Coast Guard.

Jill Tatara describes a poem she wrote using lines she heard while walking from the WTC area on 9/11.

Artist Mary Crescenzo describes how the performance piece she created for the Day of the Dead turned into a memorial. She has video of the performance, which took place November 1 at the Pelham Art Center in Pelham, New York.

Romi Porrazzo's husband, a bank president who worked on the 60th floor of the north tower, escaped the building after the plane hit. He left a message at 8:48 telling of a massive explosion and saying that everyone was getting out.