Tapton Lock

Slow electronic music recorded late at night in a small concrete canal tunnel in Chesterfield.

Driving back from Sheffield to London in the midst of Storm Bert, the first town I passed through was Chesterfield, which I knew had a small canal tunnel underneath the A619. Although it was after 11pm and I was 170 miles from home, I stopped to take a quick look. Having not been able to make a video earlier in the day because of high winds, I was surprised to find there was virtually no wind here at all. The tunnel was entirely unlit, but had a decent natural reverb given it was narrow (wide enough for one canal boat only) and short (estimate less than 40m based on google map).

So I set up for a video, using the two new floating Randomatones I built at the end of the summer. For the first time on a canal tunnel shoot, I had two phantom-powered microphones with approximately 30m of cable between them to get good stereo separation. Almost all of what you hear in the soundtrack is from those mics.

Also in this video I captured the complete journey made by the Randomatones from the south end of the tunnel to the north as they were carried along by the current. With some editing between the three cameras, except for right at the end, you are watching that journey in real time. After scooping them out of the water, I had everything packed up and back in the car just before midnight.

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