THE SCRAPE - ISSUE 1

Reverbhunter - By Aaron Taylor

 "I will, I will...," echoes through the audience. "I will always want what I can't have," they sing. Backup vocals harmonize perfectly along. The audience feels the emotion resonate with their being. Upon the crowd, a wide range of captive sounds are set free. A post rock sound that creates an emotional journey for all listeners. This is the art and music of Reverbhunter, and their collaboration with the reflective sounds discovered inside of parking garages, stairwells, and tunnels.

Chelsea Sue straps a guitar on their back, dressed to hike the city, ready to hunt reverb. "And that's how I started writing Music. The reflections of noise are so magical to me. It feels like [the] reverb is collaborating with me. I used to just wander, usually it was parking garages that I would write music in. But my dad lived in a place that had a really pretty reverb in its stairwell."

Chelsea continues to describe their stairwell songwriting process, "I just want to be really dramatic and like a little emo boy, and I want to really hear the note twice as long. Ohh that echo. Ohh, I love reverb. And of course, every one's heard our stairwell. I used to just, like, go sit down in there whenever I was feeling something, like a lot, and I would put the timer on 10 minutes to just be in there and make something. I feel it's just easier to write songs with reverb." 

As they walk towards the door, Chelsea shares, "One of my favorite places for reverb is the Washington Park Tunnel, underneath the Oregon Zoo. I used to go late at night. At midnight. Maybe take some protection with you, or go with a friend, but the stairwell up from the Washington Park Tunnel has great reverb. It gives you a dopamine high. It's kind of scary because well, you can't go back into the tunnel after you go into the stairwell. It's like 600 feet, a crazy amount of stairs. And you have to go all the way to the top. You're trespassing for sure."