Probably Getting The Tube (Regent's Park)

Regent's Park reimagined by Ashley Elsdon.

""I wanted to make a piece that captured a series of ideas I had about both the station itself and also about travelling on the tube in general. Firstly I wanted the piece to be obviously about the experience of the station, so it opens with the announcer and a train pulling out of the station itself. The first part of the rhythm is made entirely from sounds from the station, its lifts and the trains. As the piece develops a second rhythm appears and slowly takes over. The rhythm is again made up of slices from sounds from the station but is generated from a stochastic sample slicer using a markov chain to both determine which slices are played and the manipulation of each slice. I wanted to introduce this level of randomness because of the often random nature of travelling on the tube. Lastly as the piece fades there is a strange noise element that persists until the end. This is the only part which wasn't taken from the original recording. It is a sonification of a historical photograph outside the station. I wanted to add this element and end with it to remind us that the station has a great history which is always there."

I hope that's the kind of thing you wanted. In terms of how the piece was made, I created the entire piece on an iPad mini. I started it on the platform at Regent's Park Station, and finished it there too. In its making I used the following apps:

AudioShare BeatMaker 2 MultiTrack DAW SECTOR AUFX: Space AlitSpace AudioReverb Dedalus FX Virtual ANS Final Touch"

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