Secondary Sources of Sound
Morse Code class from 1941
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q8Pq6cosm2A
In this stage of the project, I started ripping sound from videos I found on youtube to add elements of reality. Though this clip shows footage from around World War 2, the fact that it is a video with sound is more important. The medium of sound art and radio shows do not depend on visuals to portray a story and so there are more freedom of sources.
Andrew Crisell, Understanding Radio, Second Edition, Chapter 3: Radio, Signs and Codes, (Routledge, 1994) pg 44
https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=iAAP7upkYoEC&printsec=frontcover&dq=understanding+radio+codes&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwj1mv-g9NHfAhUjt3EKHTV1CgcQ6AEIKjAA#v=onepage&q&f=false
‘It seems never to exist as an isolated phenomenon, always to manifest the presence of something else. Consequently we can say that sounds, whether in the world or on the radio, are generally indexical.’
Indexical in this sense refers to a sound that is a signifier that denotes an idea or one that is associated with a particular source and meaning.
My aim with this project was to be as accurate as possible in portraying WW1 but in some situations where I’ve found myself unable to recreate certain aspects, I’ve had to rely on secondary sources As sound attached to visuals was introduced after the end of the war. WW1 ended in 1918 and the first film to use sound was ‘The Jazz Singer’ in 1927.
Signalmen Training Semaphore (1914 - 1918)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gpLAuxzmG44
Yet clips like this are still useful in having a visual reference that i matched the sound of flags to in the final project using sounds from Freesound.org
Flag - https://freesound.org/people/DeepPurple5/sounds/448975/
Wind - https://freesound.org/people/InspectorJ/sounds/405561/