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Imagine this: you are a soldier on the American front near the Moselle during the First World War. You have been informed that Germany has signed the armistice agreement ending four long years of death and destruction that have killed 9 million soldiers and injured millions more.
All around you, however, the resounding sound of gunshots and deafening explosions continues until the very last minute, giving the impression that the battle will never end really. But at 11 o'clock on November 11, 1918, at 11 o'clock, the guns went silent and the war finally ended.
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The British Imperial War Museums (IWM), in partnership with the sound designers of Coda to Coda, based in London, allowed history buffs around the world to relive the sound of the Great War just moments before its end.
The sound designers have associated a reinvented audio recording with an original graphic recording indicating the exact moment when the war is over.
The graphical recording is a "sound telemetry product, a technique used by Allies to determine the location of enemy artillery," says IWM London in a press release to Fox News.
"A photographic film was used to record the exact moment when six different microphones received the sound of a gunshot. The microphones are distant from each other, they have captured the sound of the same gun at slightly different times, "says IWM in his statement, adding that the different moments were then used to locate the position of the gun. A gun or a specific piece of artillery.
The graph shows the minute before and after the entry into force of the armistice agreement.
(IWM)
The graphical recording indicated "the intensity of the noise at a given moment", which, like a seismograph, would transfer the sound "on a rolling photographic film", explains the German broadcaster Deutsche Welle online.
"It's visually interesting to see the flat lines after the sound [of firing] Richard Hughes, an IWM curator, told Fox News in a telephone interview on Friday, adding that the sound designers have "put together a synthesized soundtrack that gives an impression of what it might have looked like" .
The shot "literally [continued] up to a second or two before [Armistice] entered into force, "he added.
Although the armistice was signed at 5 am on the same day, it took effect only at 11 o'clock. In a statement, a spokesman for Kansas City's National WWI Museum and Memorial told Fox News that about 3,000 soldiers were said to have been "needlessly" killed in those six hours.
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Those who visit the museum can not only hear the entirety of the soundtrack – based on the graphical recording from 10:58 to 11:01 – but also feel a reproduction of the vibrations that the soldiers probably felt at the same time. time.
"We hope that our audio interpretation of sound measurement techniques … will allow visitors to look into this historic moment and better understand what the end of the First World War was able to give," said Will Worsley, director In a statement, the composer of Coda to Coda added that the document "gives us a precise idea of the intensity and the chaos of the chaos provoked by the firing of weapons for those who are fighting on the Western front" .
