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: Mysterious junction box Nunhead
Grid square: New Cross, Brockley, Lewisham
Duration: 1:00
Recorded by: IM Rawes
Recording date: 29 April 2011
Time of day: 10.30pm
Location: Junction of Gibbon Road and Oak Street, Nunhead.
Description: Loud humming and rattling noise from a junction box. Faint footsteps heard briefly.
Technical guff: Headworn stereo. 2 x Shure WL-183 mics and Edirol R09-HR recorder.
Additional notes: None.
File name: Brockley Barge Thursday night
Grid square: New Cross, Brockley, Lewisham
Duration: 1:00
Recorded by: IM Rawes
Recording date: 20 January 2011
Time of day: 9.30pm
Location: In the Brockley Barge pub, southeast London.
Description: Busy pub ambience with general hubbub and more distinct voices closer by as a group of men discuss football.
Technical guff: Headworn stereo. 2 x MM-HLSO/Sennheiser MKE-2 mics and Edirol R09-HR recorder.
Additional notes: None.
File name: Nunhead foxes
Grid square: New Cross, Brockley, Lewisham
Duration: 1:26
Recorded by: IM Rawes
Recording date: 9 May 2009
Time of day: Around midnight
Location: Near the railway cutting east of Nunhead station.
Description: A fox screeches every few seconds then, after a while, a second fox joins in. Sounds of vehicles passing over a road bridge and a continuous buzz from a nearby electricity sub-station.
Technical guff: Head-worn stereo. 2 x Shure WL-183 mics. Edirol R09-HR digital recorder.
Additional notes: None.