How The End of the War Sounded

A new exhibition at the Imperial War Museum uses some of the seismic data collected during the war to recreate the moment the Armistice, which ended the Great War, came into effect.

‘Sound Ranging’ was used to try and gauge the direction and distance of enemy artillery fire. This piece of recording tape came from the American sector near the River Moselle. Using six microphones it captured the last moments of the war as the artillery slowly ceased fire at 11am on November 11th, 1918

A sound production company, Coda to Coda, were commissioned to recreate the sound captured by the ranging tape. You can listen and download it here.

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