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A beforehand darkish subway subsequent to Hayes and Harlington station is now crammed with a wall of sunshine telling the story of the realm’s document music heritage.
The subway was beforehand lined with an artwork sample painted onto the wall and though fairly brief was nonetheless curiously darkish in look. As a part of the housing growth subsequent to it, the subway was refurbished with a flooring to ceiling mild show.
The subway is now lined with a delicate cream colored wall, adorned with the sample of a document grove in reminiscence of the previous EMI manufacturing facility at Hayes, which is now a housing growth.
Behind the ornamental wall, a slowly altering sample of lights highlights the radial document grove sample printed on the partitions.
General, it’s a really good refined impact.
We’re additionally advised by the official announcement that the brand new tunnel lining “performs with textures, sound and light-weight and echoes the stereo sound of native folks passing by way of Hayes on their every day commute”
I’m not completely positive what the stereo sound of native folks is meant to imply within the context of this paintings, nevertheless it’s sufficiently complicated that I overheard a pair complaining that they thought the tunnel was presupposed to play music. It seems there may be presupposed to be some sound impact, nevertheless it wasn’t engaged on my go to.
Away from complicated art-speak, there’s a pleasant central part that tells the story of Alan Dower Blumlein, some of the prolific British inventors of the twentieth century, who invented stereo sound recording and was a senior sound engineer at EMI in Hayes.
One of many recordings he made in early stereo was of the native railway line – the primary ever recording of a steam prepare in movie footage with a stereo soundtrack.
The subway is true subsequent to the railway station, by the primary stairs and has turned a dank subway into one thing mild and ethereal.
The “Sounds of Hayes” design is by The Decorators, the graphics are by Guglielmo Rossi Bandiera, and made by The White Wall Firm. The (non-playing) sound was by Julian Brown and William Inexperienced.
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