Calais: train station platform noise

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the local train out of calais, when waiting on the platform, there is a bing-bong-booong noise, it is incredibly evocative, and one of the most beautiful pieces of music i have ever heard (it is a bit like boards of canada, but only 6-8 seconds long, and is just everything they are trying to achieve)

it is partly because it has that 70s testcard melody, and partly because it is blasted out of a cheap tannoy that degrades slightly and distorts the top and bottom.

have you ever heard it? is there anything similar?

― gareth, Monday, 8 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

The Tannoy chimes at Paris Airports,(both of them), are these exceptionally dissonant Musique Concrete style notes. Just a short blast but encapsulating the siit of early electronic music quite sucintly (sp??)

― Ed, Tuesday, 9 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

ten months pass...

but where can i get such sounds without crossing the channel again?

― gareth (gareth), Monday, 3 March 2003 14:28 (twenty-two years ago)

Announcements are so rarely chimed in the UK, except by the words 'we would like to apologise....'.

― Ed (dali), Monday, 3 March 2003 14:33 (twenty-two years ago)

four years pass...

maybe its better that way

― Filey Camp, Saturday, 15 September 2007 18:13 (eighteen years ago)

o wow I remember being quite taken aback by that French chime, last time it was over there - in Paris not Calais so it must be an SNCF thing. I think I thought it was quite sweet but trying a bit too hard. Can't remember how it went though :( I don't go to France enough ;_;

― ledge, Sunday, 16 September 2007 07:58 (eighteen years ago)

Anybody got a link to an mp3?

― Ismael Klata, Sunday, 16 September 2007 08:35 (eighteen years ago)

appalling sound quality, but yay!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xk2UGkXOGkU&mode=related&search=

― ledge, Sunday, 16 September 2007 08:39 (eighteen years ago)

and another
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9bobmqeNirU

― ledge, Sunday, 16 September 2007 08:40 (eighteen years ago)

now in europop flavour:
http://www.imedias.biz/radio/actualite-le-succes-dune-chanson-avec-le-jingle-de-la-sncf-video-12750.php

― ledge, Sunday, 16 September 2007 08:46 (eighteen years ago)

jingle composed by this guy:
http://www.fnacmusic.com/album/7680006b-1e0b-4dfa-8743-5c912ed42efc.aspx

― ledge, Sunday, 16 September 2007 08:54 (eighteen years ago)

"You surely had to see the news advertizing of the SNCF with small pink small beasts representing of the ideas?!"

http://naturalsoundsystem.free.fr/checklist/index.php?d=042005&page=2 that claims that the above jingle was designed in 2005 so I'm not sure it's the same one that Gareth heard.
mp3 of old version
mp3 of 2005 version
radio article in french that apparently goes into some detail in the subject but my french is virtually nonexistent so I will have to abandon the trail at this point. French speakers to thread!

― ledge, Sunday, 16 September 2007 09:06 (eighteen years ago)

that radio link again:
http://www.arteradio.com/son.html?60

― ledge, Sunday, 16 September 2007 09:07 (eighteen years ago)

it's no Dayvan Cowboy

― Just got offed, Sunday, 16 September 2007 09:10 (eighteen years ago)

its not the same one:(

― Filey Camp, Sunday, 16 September 2007 09:47 (eighteen years ago)

you are gareth? i can't keep up.

oh well too bad. i do like this one, might look for an mp3 of that europop version. and any ilxors visiting calais plz to take recording devices.

― ledge, Sunday, 16 September 2007 10:54 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.brokeland.com/tracerhand/eurostar.mp3

― Tracer Hand, Sunday, 16 September 2007 13:54 (eighteen years ago)

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