Sound action recordings are of sounds designed to affect people, including situations where many make sounds together towards a common goal. Often they're of voices, but they also include sirens, bells, fireworks and more.
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Classification: Political > Rioting and disorder
Recording date: May Day 2001
Description: "The breakdown of law and order: May Day 2001, Tottenham Court Road in central London. Watched by police helicopters circling above, but with few police in the street, anti-capitalist rioters are roaming around almost freely, smashing the windows of banks and shops while cheering each other on, occassionally running from a handful of police officers." – Matthias Kispert
Technical guff: Not known.
Recorded by: Matthias Kispert
Additional notes: Recording from soundtransit.nl, covered by a Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 license.