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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

Tonight we’re going to be airing a very special Bop Street Records show all about food and drink! Light up the fondue pot and huddle around the laptop for a delicious little morsel! I was so enamoured this week that I ended up taking one of the albums home. Check it out:

The combination of country music and the Moog brings it all together with a “Now” sound that will hold up for a long time to come.

The image on the back is great too. The artist featured on all of these tracks is Gil Trythall who “was born in Tennessee and still lives there with his Moog and some other people. He teaches college, writes music, makes hit records and underground movies.” This guy rules!!!!!!!!!!

Don’t miss this event! Starts at 7pm!

Tonight Hollow Earth Radio will be airing an interview with Jacob Smigel who recently put out an 80 minute compact-disc full of found sound. This informal conversation goes into detail about the art of searching through thrift stores for treasures, the various emotions that arise out of “finding”, and even a good paranormal encounter tacked onto the end. The interview is also spliced with several clips from the cd, and even some surpise found sounds not heard anywhere else. Starts at 7:00 P.M. PST.

Here are some of the lovely packages that Jacob so graciously donated to the station. Check out his site to see how you can purchase some of these delicious morsels!

Hey everybody. Thanks so much for your support as we begin this radio station. We appreciate all the encouragement and positive feedback. We really would like to open this station up to the community–and have more input and more hands workin’ on this new project.

Our FIRST MEETING EVER will be at the SS MARIE ANTOINETTE on February 4th at 4pm.

If you have been interested in learning more about how we do things and what our goals are, come join the conversation. If you are interested in volunteering, come to this meeting.

We are looking for support with: Fundraising, Getting the Word Out, Getting More Local/Northwest Music, Acquiring regular mixes from people in the community, Finding a Public Venue to put the station, reviewing albums, administrative work (that can be done on your own computer), Recording House Shows, Doing Interviews, short-term and long-term planning, website development, etc.

If any of this sounds like something you want to be a part of, come to our meeting. If you can, let us know if you’d like to attend.

THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU!

Kindly,
Amber Kai Morgan
&
Garrett Kelly

Every week, we feature local or northwest house shows that have been recorded by Hollow Earth Radio or friends in the community who so graciously pass on their recordings. This week, we present Part I of the January 6th, 2007 Wizard House Show. The two bands that you will hear on the radio are the Terrordactyls (from Vashon Island) and Team Awesome! (from Denver, Co). This will air several times this week: Thursday at 7pm (PST), Friday at 1pm (PST), and Saturday at 3 pm (PST). Two other bands performed at this house show (Short Hand for Epic and The Orcateers). This part of the Wizard House Show performance will air in February. Check our schedule! Hope you enjoy the performance.

Tonight at 8:00pm P.S.T. we will be airing a very special interview we did with Purple Crow from Canada. He’s a very articulate speaker who talks about his paranormal experiences circulating around a reptilian theme. Tune in at 8p.m., this is not to be missed!: http://www.hollowearthradio.com

12pm - 6pm : All Of Last Night’s Show
6pm Music Collage
7pm Theme Mix : Jesus, Angels, and Spirits Oh My!
8pm Interview : Purple Crow / Reptoid
9pm Seattle Mix
10pm Music Collage

Everyone who listened to us on our first day alive, thank you very much!! From this day forward, we will be broadcasting everyday from NOON to MIDNIGHT (PST).

From 12pm-6pm everyday, we will air the shows from the day before. From 6pm-midnight, we will always have new content.

We hope you feel like you are a part of this community that we seek to to create with this diy radio station. Please feel free to write to us with requests, suggestions, questions, dreams, donations, contributions, etc.