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Eluvium • “The Tunnel”

The Pogue’s Run tunnel, also known as The Box, is perhaps one of the most intriguing built structures in all of Indianapolis. This human-made structure allows the Pogue’s Run (a type of stream and one of Indianapolis’s six waterways) to continue its course underneath the urban core and empty into the White River. Composer Eluvium creates an original track that moves beneath a city’s most recognizable icons—stadiums, towers, monuments. The sounds on this track were recorded during two trips through the tunnel by Indianapolis-based artist, Stuart Hyatt. These sounds were then are harmonically aligned in arrangements for organ and guitar by Eluvium. The smells and the visual darkness become manifest in the sounds used to transport the listener to an underworld in Indianapolis. Running water mingles with the voices from Archie Campbell, and biology technicians who work in the Public Health Department’s lab collecting water samples. The cyclical Rhodes piano refrain sets the tempo that propels imagined movement slowly through the tunnel itself, surrounded by the sounds of the railroad, the cars, and howling emptiness itself.

GPS Location: 39.764502, -86.150997
Duration: 04:33
Year: 2015
Commissioned as one of six original music pieces of the Streamlines project, funded by the National Science Foundation.

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from Sound Expeditions - Indianapolis, released April 9, 2018

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