200 Charing Crosses

Charing Cross reimagined by Ron Freyenschlag.

"The approach to the piece, using nothing but the field recording provided, is partly inspired by the hectic atmosphere of the average underground station, with quite a bit of chaos and sudden changes in schedules, disorientation of people and such. The beats, patterns, bars and tempo tend to be break, get lost and not fully satisfy expectations of the listener. Beneath that lies the rumbling of machines that has been generated using the crowd noise. This noise has been edited using 200 ‘playheads’ simultaneously in Supercollider, transforming it even more into a static sound layer that could then be treated to some low frequency distortion, resulting in the different humming stages present in the piece that oscillates somewhere between noise, glitch and broken beats."

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