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Listen to the moment the guns fell silent ending World War I

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Re: Listen to the moment the guns fell silent ending World War I

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Post by hprotagonist »

So 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"

Re: Listen to the moment the guns fell silent ending World War I

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Post by Invictus0 »

jtbayly wrote: post #3

I didn't find the audio on that page, but a link to it here: 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.

The 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.

Re: Listen to the moment the guns fell silent ending World War I

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Post by jtbayly »

Invictus0 wrote: post #4
jtbayly wrote: post #3

I didn't find the audio on that page, but a link to it here: 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.

The 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.

Thanks. I skipped the article, because I was looking for the audio.

The birds are dumb.

Re: Listen to the moment the guns fell silent ending World War I

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Post by ornornor »

jtbayly wrote: post #6
Invictus0 wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The 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.

Thanks. I skipped the article, because I was looking for the audio. The birds are dumb.

It’s for a museum, for an interactive exhibition. It’s a nice touch.

Re: Listen to the moment the guns fell silent ending World War I

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Post by jtbayly »

ornornor wrote: post #7
jtbayly wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Thanks. I skipped the article, because I was looking for the audio. The birds are dumb.

It’s for a museum, for an interactive exhibition. It’s a nice touch.

Well, I understand why they were added. But they ruin the sombre silence.

Re: Listen to the moment the guns fell silent ending World War I

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Post by AndrewOMartin »

jtbayly wrote: post #3

I didn't find the audio on that page, but a link to it here: 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.

For a seasoned gamer that reconstruction just sounds like a collection of stock EXPLOD01.WAV files.
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