The end of WWI, reconstructed audio

"Just Jeepin'" (macintux) 03/30/2020 at 17:55 • Filed to: Peacelopnik

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The Great War, it turns out, featured among other new technologies microphones deployed along the front lines to try to identify artillery units.

These weren’t recorded to audio directly; rather they were recorded as visual charts , much like a seismograph.

A couple of years ago a British firm, Coda to Coda, collaborated with the Imperial War Museum to reconstruct the end of the war based on surviving charts . It’s a powerful piece, and you really need to listen to the end. Just one minute long.

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BaconSandwich is tasty. > Just Jeepin' 03/30/2020 at 18:27

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I’m surprised there’d be any birds left around after a war like that.

ttyymmnn > Just Jeepin' 03/30/2020 at 18:28

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Deafening silence. It’s like that rather cliched line on MASH:

“ Listen!”

“I don’t hear anything.”

“Right. The shelling stopped.”

Just Jeepin' > BaconSandwich is tasty. 03/30/2020 at 18:36

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That struck me as well. Life finds a way.

RiceRocketeer Extraordinaire > Just Jeepin' 03/30/2020 at 22:13

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armistice_of_11_November_1918#Last_casualties

I was wondering why they’d keep firing if they knew they’d have to stop at 11 am anyway. Figured part of it was, “heck, what else are we going to do until then?”

Just Jeepin' > RiceRocketeer Extraordinaire 03/30/2020 at 22:21

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Fascinating read, thanks. That’s a lot of unnecessary death, but I suppose that’s the story of the entire war.

gmporschenut also a fan of hondas > RiceRocketeer Extraordinaire 03/30/2020 at 23:08

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https://www.amazon.com/Eleventh-Month-Day-Hour-Armistice/dp/0375760458

A) officers wanting one last hill

B) generals thinking the germans wouldn’t really surrender, so the idea was keep pushing till the end

After there were a number of hearings why men were sent to die. And they were shut down as how many would be too negative.