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Listen to the moment the guns fell silent ending World War I
- andai 7y agoListen to a recreation of the moment the guns fell silent ending World War I.
- hprotagonist 7y agoSo this book is a sidewalk strewn with junk, trash which I throw over my shoulders as I travel in time back to November eleventh, nineteen hundred and twenty-two. It was during that minute in nineteen hundred and eighteen, that millions upon millions of human beings stopped butchering one another. I have talked to old men who were on battlefields during that minute. They have told me in one way or another that the sudden silence was the Voice of God. So we still have among us some men who can remember when God spoke clearly to mankind. Vonnegut, "Breakfast of Champions"
- goldcd 7y ago"There was no fresh Basil and I got reprimanded for trying to put my Pringles on the end of the belt before a compatriot had finished bagging" GoldCD, "Dinners under Corona"
- TheGallopedHigh 7y agoNot the place for this type of comment here, sorry.
- jtbayly 7y agoI didn't find the audio on that page, but a link to it here: https://codatocoda.bandcamp.com/album/iwm-ww1-armistice-interpretation-sound-installation https://codatocoda.bandcamp.com/album/iwm-ww1-armistice-inte... I want to know if the birds were actually recorded at the end, or if it was added for dramatic presentation.
- Invictus0 7y agoThe birds were added at the end; the article specifies that there was no actual audio recorded and this is a reconstruction based on a series of proto-seismograph records.
- jtbayly 7y agoThanks. I skipped the article, because I was looking for the audio. The birds are dumb.
- ornornor 7y agoIt’s for a museum, for an interactive exhibition. It’s a nice touch.
- jtbayly 7y agoWell, I understand why they were added. But they ruin the sombre silence.
- capableweb 7y agoI don't understand why. No birds would still be present in an environment where you have so many bombs and guns going off, they would be far away by then and take long time before they are brave enough to come back.
- jfk13 7y agoMaybe you should read _Where Poppies Blow_ by John Lewis-Stempel. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29905681-where-poppies-blow https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29905681-where-poppies-b... Or even just skim the reviews on Amazon: > ...no man’s land was, effectively, a bird reserve with a barbed wire perimeter: ‘If it weren’t for the birds, what a hell it would be’ says one soldier. Experiences with birds, especially when they were singing in the lulls, lifted their spirits: “They offered a touch of Heaven in Hell.”
- cabernal 7y agoI understand that this is an interpretation, but fascinating nonetheless. Are there other examples (or archives) of this type of historical recordings?
- bassdigit 7y agoBirds sing seconds after ear-blasting gun shots. Really?
- GaryNumanVevo 7y agoIt's an interpretation of audio recorded to film
- billziss 7y agoLike others I found the recording profound at first. The birds at the end cheapened the experience for me because they made me question the authenticity of the sounds heard and whether this was leaning closer to an actual representation or an artistic interpretation. Perhaps somewhere in between. Assuming that this is leaning closer to an actual representation of the sounds heard on that morning (with the dubious addition of some birds for "dramatic effect") one thing that I found particularly interesting is the noise/buzz that can be heard immediately after the guns are silenced. Could it be that this noise represents the people cheering for the end of war captured by the crude recording device of oil drums + film?
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- Sophistifunk 7y agoI can't imagine there was much cheering from those actually at the front. It's just too big. Cheering is for spectators.
- ninju 6y ago> The birds at the end cheapened the experience for me... I agree. There is no way that the microphone were that sensitive. I understand what the artists were trying to "say" but yes it did distract from the power of the quiet
- lmilcin 7y agoSpoiler alert! It is fake. It is "interpretation".
- lokl 7y agoAs long as we're discussing fictional works about WWI, two great movies are La Grande Illusion and Paths of Glory.
- handojin 7y agoKnock-kneed, coughing like hags, we cursed through sludge, Till on the haunting flares we turned our backs, And towards our distant rest began to trudge. Men marched asleep. Many had lost their boots, But limped on, blood-shod. All went lame; all blind; Drunk with fatigue; deaf even to the hoots Of gas-shells dropping softly behind. Gas! GAS! Quick, boys!—An ecstasy of fumbling Fitting the clumsy helmets just in time, But someone still was yelling out and stumbling And flound’ring like a man in fire or lime.— Dim through the misty panes and thick green light, As under a green sea, I saw him drowning. In all my dreams before my helpless sight, He plunges at me, guttering, choking, drowning. If in some smothering dreams, you too could pace Behind the wagon that we flung him in, And watch the white eyes writhing in his face, His hanging face, like a devil’s sick of sin; If you could hear, at every jolt, the blood Come gargling from the froth-corrupted lungs, Obscene as cancer, bitter as the cud Of vile, incurable sores on innocent tongues,— My friend, you would not tell with such high zest To children ardent for some desperate glory, The old Lie: Dulce et decorum est Pro patria mori.
- 4weekoldroses 7y agoWhich is this from? I would like to read it.
- handojin 7y agoWilfred Owen, 'Dulce et Decorum est.' That's it for that poem but he wrote more.
- wideasleep1 7y ago"Look mommy...there's an airplane up in the sky..."
- g105b 7y agoDid you see the frightened ones?
- ainiriand 7y agoNot only it is a recreation, but also an exposition conducted almost 2 years ago, in commemoration of the end of WWI.