Tunnel Singer Tonight @ 7 p.m.

Tonight at 7:00 p.m. PST, we are going to be airing a special interview with the Tunnel Singer, a woman who records improvisational sound experiments in large reverberating places. We’ll be splicing some of her music in between segments of the interview in which we talk about how she got involved in this type of art. In true Hollow Earth Radio fashion, we also convinced her to share some of her paranormal encounters!!!

We will be playing music from a particularly interesting place that she has recorded in - Washington State’s very own Fort Worden “Cistern Chapel”, which is an “infamous two million gallon 186 foot diameter water tank about 70 miles northwest of Seattle”. Here’s a short video that Amber and I made that features some scenes from inside the Fort.



The Tunnel Singer and I also got to talking about some other fascinating spaces related to her work that I wanted to share with you. One of those is the The Silophone. From their website :

Silo #5 is an abandoned grain storage facility in the port of Montréal. A quarter of a mile long and over twenty storeys high, it has a total capacity of five million bushels, or enough wheat to make 230 million loaves of bread … however due to changes in the global grain market and to the general trend of de-industrialization in North America at the end of the 20th century, the building became redundant less than forty years after its completion.

Silophone makes use of the incredible acoustics of Silo #5 by introducing sounds, collected from around the world using various communication technologies, into a physical space to create an instrument which blurs the boundaries between music, architecture and net art. Sounds arrive inside Silo #5 by telephone or internet. They are then broadcast into the vast concrete grain storage chambers inside the Silo. They are transformed, reverberated, and coloured by the remarkable acoustics of the structure, yielding a stunningly beautiful echo. This sound is captured by microphones and rebroadcast back to its sender, to other listeners and to a sound installation outside the building. Anyone may contribute material of their own, filling the instrument with increasingly varied sounds.

The Tunnel Singer also told me about an amazing Stalacpipe Organ, ” a keyboard instrument that works by tapping stalactites of varying sizes with rubber-tipped mallets attached to solenoids in order to produce tones”. We’ll be sharing a short clip of this music as well, so be sure to check in to the station tonight @ 7 P.M.! Thanks,



Garrett Kelly / Hollow Earth Radio