The Next Station is the first ever sound map of the London Underground. As well as documenting the sounds of the London Underground, by remixing and reimagining every sound it creates an alternative sound world based on the experience and memory of the iconic Tube.

London Underground sound map

Click on a station on the map to bring up and listen to its sounds – click on the ‘information’ button while listening to a sound to read about how it was produced and the creative context and ideas behind it.

Explore the project

Explore the sounds on our London sound map





Background and context

The Tube is the world’s oldest underground railway, launching in 1863, and is now one of the most recognisable features of London as a city – and one of the most distinctive soundscapes in the world.

Working alongside The London Sound Survey, we collected field recordings from 55 stations across the London Underground network over the course of three months, adding in sounds from our respective archives.

We then invited sound artists, sound designers and musicians from around the world to reimagine, remix and rework those sounds during July, with almost 100 reimagined pieces presented here.

The Next Station: full playlist of sounds

Contributing artists

Almost 100 sound designers, musicians and sound artists have contributed to the project. As well as plenty of London residents reimagining sounds familiar to them from their home city, contributors come from all around the world – from Canada and the USA to Japan and Australia via Italy, Germany, Norway and many other countries.

There is more information about them on our contributors page, but here’s a full list.

Nazar Ali Khan, London, UK

Hitoshi Asaumi, Toon, Japan

Balint Barath, Budapest, Hungary

Pietro Bardini, Reggio Emilia, Italy

Jess Beechey, London, UK

Andy Billington, Loughborough, UK

Philippe Blache, Paris, France

Eric Boivin, Montreal, Canada

AJ Born, Lubeck, Germany

Sofia Botero, Bogota, Colombia

Stuart Bowditch, Bulmer Tye, UK

Nigel Bryant, London, UK

Antonia Bustamente, Buenos Aires, Argentina

Doug Connell, Rockford, USA

Leanne Cunningham, London, UK

Morgan Davies, London, UK

Trixie Delight, Woking, UK

Rachel Devorah, Paris, France

Jeff Dungfelder, New York, USA

Chris Dunn, Melbourne, Australia

Ashley Elsdon, London, UK

Richard Fair, Norwich, UK

Camilla Fanning, Dublin, Ireland

Benjamin Finger, Oslo, Norway

Stuart Fowkes, Oxford, UK

Ron Freyenschlag, Trossingen, Germany

Pawel Gozdziewicz, Gydnia, Poland

Eden Grey, London, UK

Johannes Gruber, Vienna, Austria

Susanne Grunewald, Leicester, UK

Manuel Guerrero, Mexico City, Mexico

Seth Guy, London, UK

Marinna Guzy, Corvallis, USA

Thomas Haighton, The Hague, Netherlands

Ian Haygreen, Ridgwell, UK

Hubert Heathertoes, London, UK

Alex Hehir, Oxford, UK

Flora Henderson, Bishop’s Stortford, UK

Clara Hollomey, Glasgow, UK

Howlround, London, UK

Jan-Morten Iversen, Hafrsfjord, Norway

Heiko Jay, Zittau, Germany

Fergus Kelly, Dublin, Ireland

Fernando Laub, Buenos Aires, Argentina

Anne Lepere, Brussels, Belgium

Paul Lewin, Cornwall, UK

Guido Lusetti, Reggio Emilia, Italy