Whitechapel_1928 soundscape

The sound recording taken at 1 Leman Street, Whitechapel, was the first in the series of “London street noises” investigation of the Daily Mail. On the 4th of September at midday, a microphone was suspended outside a window of the first level of a trunk store. The recording plant itself, which would require a large space, was set up in a room above a hairdresser in the building. The microphone and the instrument were then joined by an electric cable. Behind this technical feat there was the Columbia Gramophone Company, which was congratulated upon capturing the impossible-to-be-grasped ‘pandemonium which maintained in ever-recurring waves’. The overall traffic noise consisted of a non-stop ‘stream of tramway-cars, lorries, motor-omnibuses, and horse-drawn drays and lighter vehicles passed east and west and south and north’. Source: Daily Mail, ‘London Street Noises’, 06.09.1928, Issue: 10100, p.9. Once you`ve listened to the 1928 soundscape, please fill in this anonymous google form http://bit.ly/LSNwhite

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