This presentation reminds of some early sonic representations and of their utility for musical sound synthesis and processing, prior to the introduction of wavelets by Morlet and Grossmann. It reminds the circumstances of the work performed at the Laboratoire de Mécanique et d'Acoustique, Marseille, by Richard Kronland-Martinet with Alex Grossmann on wavelet transforms of sounds and by Daniel Arfib and Frédéric Boyer on the Gabor representation. It is illustrated by short sound and video examples.