URBAN EXPLORER STORM DRAIN SERIES
They soon drop their ropes and progress through a series of excavated tunnels and industrial caves, as if puzzling some new route into a pharaoh’s tomb-an Egyptology of urban infrastructure with its own secret chambers and traps.Īnd, incredibly, they actually do it: they actually find the machine, realizing that the rumors were both true and strangely inaccurate. “Hitting our helmets and our backpacks on almost everything we found on the way,” they inched forward on foot. Thus begins the next phase of their subterranean quest to find the so-called “Worm Maiden,” this conquering machine-animal lying dormant in its lair somewhere under the streets. Imagine if you could bring it back to life. Imagine what you could do with a discarded tunneling machine seemingly forgotten in the deepest basement of the metropolis. They want to find it, to see if the rumors are true-and, who knows, to discover if the machine might still be operational. A dormant juggernaut that lies underground.” Plus, some weird new myths have been circulating around town: that there’s a monolithic machine down there, something massive and temporarily abandoned beneath the city.
Everest in reverse-“descending black ropes,” in their words-swinging ever closer to the entrance to the tunnels, their headlamps and cameras at the ready. They don mountaineering gear and descend into the pit. Not content to just lie there, straining to see more than 260 feet into the deep and merely wondering what might be down there, they do what any enterprising team of explorers would do. (Spotted via Author Geoff Manaugh Posted on SeptemDecemCategories BLDGBLOG Tags Acoustics, Ambient Music, Architecture, Concert, England, Infrastructure, London, Music, Sound, Subterranean, Tower Bridge, Underground, Urban Exploration Leave a comment on Subterranean Saxophony The Conqueror WormĪ group of friends, their faces rigorously hidden from public view, find a huge borehole leading down into some tunnels beneath the city. Read much more at the Guardian-or, even better, stop by tonight for a live performance. It is rumored that the final, dying words of composer John Cage were: “Make sure they play my London piece… You have to hear my London piece…” He was referring, many now believe, to a piece written for the subterranean saxophony of London’s sewers. In fact, Chambers will be performing one of Cage’s pieces during the show tonight-but, alas, I suspect it is not this one: The space itself has “the acoustics of a small cathedral,” Sinclair told the newspaper, citing John Cage as an influence and urging readers “to listen to environmental sounds and treat them as music,” whether it’s the rumble of a bridge being raised or the sounds of boats on the river. Over in London later today, the Guardian explains, composer Iain Chambers will premiere a new piece of music written for an unusual urban venue: “the caverns that contain the counterweights of when it’s raised.”
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