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A small collection of recordings made around London during the hours of darkness. So far it includes night-time West End crowds, a few pubs and street scenes, and some festivities in Croydon.
Above: graphic based on a night-time satellite image courtesy of the Image Science and Analysis Laboratory, NASA Johnson Space Center. Each red grid square is 2.5 miles or 4 kilometers across. Left: drawing by Kaffe Fassett, 1966.
File name: Balham tube midnight
Grid square: Balham, Streatham, Tooting
Duration: 1:00
Recorded by: IM Rawes
Recording date: 7 October 2009
Time of day: Midnight
Location: Southbound Northern Line platform, Balham Underground station, south London.
Description: A northbound train departs from the other platform, some kind of machinery buzzes then stops, faint voices, a man whistles.
Technical guff: Stereo. 2 x Shure WL-183 mics and Edirol R09-HR digital recorder.
Additional notes: None.