The Runner in the Gric Tunnel

Reimagined by Simon Woods.

"I knew nothing of this tunnel prior to starting on this piece. I have learned a lot through researching this hidden gem.

The Gric tunnel was used for an underground rave and so the music is of a ‘similar’ style.

Also within its history, it has been a wartime shelter – hence the distant explosions.

The kick drum sound is built form the sound of the runner through the Gric tunnel in Zagreb.

All the reverb sounds are made from an impulse made from footstep from the source recording and put through a convolution reverb – the idea being that it sounds as if it is in the tunnel, but without such a reverb long tail.

The piece starts with a lone saxophonist busking in the tunnel and ends with it.

The 808 cowbell sound is my little tribute to the late Ikutaro Kakehashi, head of Roland, a man who did actually change music! He died the day I started this project.

Equipment / Software used Cakewalk Sonar, Sound Forge, Spectrasonics Omnisphere and Trillian, UVI Falcon, Saxlab, Native Instruments Kontakt, AAS String Studio VS-2, SASquatch Kick Machine, Gforce MTPro, Rematrix Reverb, Har Bal Mastering and IK Multimedia T-Tracks CS."