The first recording of siren song was made during the battle of Suvla Bay in August 1915. A military secret for half of the twentieth century, the song is now public property. Cue it up on your headphones, we can listen to it together. The sea wind rattles the phonograph. We hear boots shuffling in the dry earth as John Hector and Trev Huxley adjust the position of the recording cone. The whisper of high thorn bushes, the silence of the night, and now you hear it: a distant choir approaching on the sea wind, a single melodic line, monophonic,