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Press Release
CD Preview - full song: "Tunnel Vision"
On three occasions shortly before Boston?s Big Dig opened the I-93 southbound tunnel to traffic in December 2003, Jay Critchley, Timothy O?Keefe and a small cadre of singers, musicians, photographers, videographers and curios descended into its depths 125 feet below the city to record their voices, song, music making and ambient and sampled sound.
This random collection of archeological recordings from the roadway tunnel workplace, access ramps and stairwells includes opera, vocals, percussion, viola, various wind instruments, ululation and a specially written rap song, Tunnel Vision. The concept for the project is an ecological one,inspired by the tree-like footprint of this $15 billion roadway, ourgluttonous appetite for petroleum, and our war making to defend it.
Six hours of recorded sounds were rough cut and sent out to interested producers, mixologists and composers who created unique interpretations from the sounds of the field recordings. From ?Tunnel Tones for Cellphones?, (Drive-by Polluting, SFV [Sports Futility Vehicle], Gridluck) to the witches of Shakespeare?s Macbeth, from electronic dance mixes to experimental sound pieces and Mozart, Big Twig Tunnel Tapes delights in our underappreciated sonic ecology.
What can the sounds we find and the sounds we make deep inside the earth - inside our buried past - tell us about ourselves and our relationship with the planet? The project’s environmental theme explores our connection to the earth and our need to create a truly sustainable future.
Performers
Rachel Smith, Jay Critchley, Serena Andrews, Jonah Rapino, Stephanie McGuire
Video/Photography
Roberto Ugalde, Jay Critchley, Lydia Eccles, Kathy Chapman, Timothy O?Keefe
Producers
Jeffrey Alexander, Timothy O?Keefe, Ryan Rooney, Andrew Sawtelle, Adam R. Wadsworth, Chris Warren
Graphic Design
Timothy O?Keefe
Thanks to the LEF Foundation, Donna Roll, AS220, Abe Rybeck, Louis Falconi, Eileen Diamond, WOMR 92.1 FM Provincetown, Sen. Ted Kennedy, Governor Mitt Romney, US Rep. Bill Delahunt, DNA Gallery/Provincetown, Tara Cavanaugh, University of Rhode Island, Big Dig Officials, especially Etty Padmodipoetro
Artistic Director, Executive Producer, and performer
Jay is a conceptual, visual, and performance artist whose provocative work responds to the natural, built, and social environment. His initial Big Twig proposal, an ecological response to the Big Dig won top prize in the Cooper-Hewitt Smithsonian competition in New York City. (check out his Rose Kennedy Greenway proposal, and related ecological projects: C.A.R.S. - Weapons of Gas Destruction, and the Cape Cod Sagamore Bridge "Flyover".) He founded the patriotic Old Glory Condom Corporation - worn with pride countrywide - and won a three-year legal battle with the US government for it's trademark. He is the wiiner of the HBO Audience Award in 2002 for his first movie, Toilet Treatments, filmed partly in his backyard septic tank where he has created the Theater in the Ground@Septic Space. Jay is a civic artist who seamlessly weaves aesthetics and politics, humor and solemnity, treating categories and boundaries as artistic and political fodder. Jay runs the annual Provincetown Harbor Swim for Life & Paddler Flotilla (www.swim4life.org), a benefit for AIDS and women's health that has raised over $1.3 million since 1988. This year's event is scheduled for September 11, 2004.
Associate Executive Producer, Engineer, musician, composer
In NYC Tim played keyboard for The Waterlillies, played with the industrial dance band Colossal Amoeba, produced with Amoeba Productions and Fluid, and worked on the staff of the electronic music label Kinetic Records. Returning in 1996 to to Rhode Island, he has been performing as
, and is now producing his first artist album, Surface Sounds for his own imprint Cozy Music.
is a blend of electronic music transgressing the genres of ambient, IDM, trip hop, and retro grooves. As a producer and performer,
has been featured on both sides of the pond in Manhattan’s Village Voice, Britain’s Future Music and local Providence culture rag Tweak Magazine. The multi-talented producer, he has been hired to create his signature sounds for various projects in film, TV, and Sony’s Playstation2 game titled Frequency.
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