Spirit of the Underground

Blackfriars to Cannon Street reimagined by Ian Haygreen.

"Oddly enough it wasn't so much the actual recording but the memory it invoked of when my father took me London (to visit the Natural History Museum) and the first time I went on the underground in the 1970s.

Being quite young and with a hyperactive imagination I conjured up a strange underground world which existed in the tunnels beneath the city with weird machines and fantastical beings.

So that was in the back of my mind when I started snipping away at the recording, isolating interesting sounds, although I let the sounds follow their own course."

Part of our project The Next Station, reimagining the sounds of the London Underground and creating the first ever tube sound map. August 2016 - for more information see www.citiesandmemory.com/thenextstation