I will be recreating Winston Churchill’s first speech as prime minister to the House of Commons. Recognized by Time Magazine as one of the top 10 speeches of all time, the speech charges an almost sorrowful patriotism into the heart of the parliament with a sincerity that recognizes the grim situation that is the beginnings of World War II.

My preview showcases the acoustics I aim to replicate from an old radio sound. I will be changing the EQ settings on the recording when I lace it into Audacity. My soundscape will be a family turning on a radio set in their living room and listening to the speech as if one were in 1940. I watched a few tutorials on how to make the old radio sound. Most tutorials suggested overlaying the dictation with a vinyl record scratching. I loved the idea and wanted to recreate my own background noise that emulated a vinyl record scratching (which in itself is meant to emulate the radio), and this preview is the closest raw sound I could replicate before I edit in Audacity.

I do ask for some suggestions for whatever else may be good to overlay with this sound, or a better everyday item I could use. What I did to make this sound was hold my recorder in front of a tower fan while “crackling” the fan’s wire gently against the floor. The fan’s sound is meant to be the empty drone against the electromagnetic wave background. Should I separate these two sounds to get a different sound level from each?

The parts of the speech I will be choosing are part of the second to last paragraph and the entire last paragraph. I didn’t want to bore the listener with an entire speech: Blood, Toil, Tears and Sweat