Description
For five nights in August 2016, Tunnel Number Five was filled with music. This is a selection of collaborations edited to fit on one CD. Each concert featured a different mix of artists performing antiphonally along the tunnel.
(Please note that this demo video clip is a lower resolution sound than the audio album)
Tunnel Number Five’s festival of underground music ran a series of exploratory and collaborative concerts in the WWII Oil Storage Tunnels under Darwin in August 2016 and 2017. For information on the performers and concerts in Tunnel Number Five, Darwin World War II Oil Storage Tunnels, visit: https://tunnelnumberfive.com/
We respectfully acknowledge the Larrakia people, in whose land this tunnel lies.
Physical CDs also available through Readings Carlton
309 Lygon St, Carlton, Victoria, 3053
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Important note on listening to this album
If you have a fancy home sound system, please turn off all effects and surround sound functions as these disguise the physicality of the tunnel. Headphones give a good stereo experience of being in the 172m of resonance with performers and audience. We recommend listening with headphones to get the full stereophonic effect of the movement of sound down the length of the tunnel. The microphones were facing each end of the 172m tunnel, in different locations on different nights, in the midst of a single line of 70 to 110 audience members (100 is full house!) as the performers stood or wandered along the tunnel before them.
Chryss Carr –
The best thing I’ve heard in ten years, it was a sensory thing… Awesome is all I can say. It will blow your inner world. (audience review)
Roslyn Perry –
One felt that Norman’s ears, eyes and pores were open to the tunnel and her colleagues whenever she appeared on stage… the highlight of the evening was the amalgamation of Yolngu songmen and shakuhachi – the audience responding overwhelmingly to this fusion of North East Arnhem Land and Japanese traditions… It was an inspired series from Norman… who clearly worked tirelessly and passionately to bring her vision to fruition – not only recognising her own dreams, but allowing others to dream also. [Review in Off The Leash, Darwin, August 2016]