South Kensington Tube station is the gateway to some of London’s famous museums – the Natural History museum, the Victoria and Albert and the Science Museum. To save people getting wet or wrangling the traffic along Exhibition Road, there is a long pedestrian walkway from the station to the museums.
It has a fabulous acoustic, one that’s enjoyed by small children, buskers and field recordists alike! I went to university at Imperial College and used this tunnel often. Even now, the soundmark takes me back to student times…
Here’s the sound of a busker using the acoustic well, and some kids enjoying the tunnel later on
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5 responses to “Echoes of South Kensington Station”
Very nice. You get a very rich sense of space. Well done.
Thanks! The tunnel has 500 yards of Victorian tiles – it’s as if it were designed forawesome reverb!
[…] the field recordist in terms of resonant public spaces. If you want to avoid the rain or simply enjoy the soundscape you can take the long pedestrian tunnel under Exhibition Road from the tube station to the […]
[…] Most people on the Internet seems to listen in stereo, there aren’t going to be that many PC users hooking the output of their audio card into their 1950s valve gramophone. So binaural urban field recordings are going to be fine because if anyone listens they will be listening in stereo and most likely using headphones, which is a great mix. You get decent results even from highly reverberant recordings like the South Kensington Station pedestrian tunnel. […]
[…] Most people on the Internet seems to listen in stereo, there aren’t going to be that many PC users hooking the output of their audio card into their 1950s valve gramophone. So binaural urban field recordings are going to be fine because if anyone listens they will be listening in stereo and most likely using headphones, which is a great mix. You get decent results even from highly reverberant recordings like the South Kensington Station pedestrian tunnel. […]