On the 10th anniversary of the9/11 attacks , audio creative person Mark Bain has unloose thefull sound recording fileof the sound of the Twin Towers break down , a melancholic howl terrestrially amplified by the realm ’s geology .
What you ’re hearing is the “ audification of the seismologic datum record , ” as Bainexplains it , “ which go on in the area of New York State , New Jersey , and New England during the crash of the World Trade Center building on September eleventh , 2001 . ”
The data point flow were acquire from Columbia University ’s geologic sight research laboratory , which tend a connection of earth monitoring stations in the area ; with the closest being 34 kilometre by from the epicentre of the upshot . A process of datum rebirth and signal translation was used to make the commonly unhearable seismic wave form both audible and to dally back in real - time as the consequence blossom forth . No other processing or event were added to the tracks . The registration includes four case , two impact and the two collapses along with the inbetween sound of the pilotless aircraft of the dry land . The heavy impact of the collapse registered 2.4 on the Richter scale , a signal which go throughout the earth .
The objet d’art is not signify as a monument , Bain add , but as “ a bell - like alarm denote story in the making . ”
This post originally appeared onBLDGBLOG . Image : A ghostlike “ sonographic image ” taken from part of Mark Bain’ssound file .
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