WE'RE FUNDED!!!

Tank Friend Lois LaFond and Rangely Councilwoman Elaine Urie singing "Amazing Grace" in the TANK earlier this week

Huge gratitude and thanks to all our amazing donors who have joined the Tank Team!

But, wait! We're not done Kickstarting!

expand outreach to the schools and community;

hook-up the TANK with state-of-the-art connectivity to the internet;

have an earlier launch of THE TANK CHANNEL;

purchase permanent recording equipment for the TANK.

Now it's time to fund ourso we can

There's still more to do to Save The Tank! We hope you'll continue to support!

THE FUTURE OF THE TANK IS YOU

What would YOU do in the Tank? We posed that question to Alvin Lucier, Laurie Anderson, Annea Lockwood,Sam Auinger, and many other artists.

Friend of the Tank went to Rangely two days ago to work with the next generation.

THE TANK is an acoustical marvel, a spiritually altering experience found nowhere else on earth. A 60’ tall, 30’ across rusted steel water tank – never used – was discovered in Colorado by sound artist and sonic thinker Bruce Odland in 1976. A small group of musicians has been recording there ever since.

THE TANK is a sonic wonder of the world with a shifting, swirling reverberation longer and richer than the Taj Majal or the Great Pyramid. Sitting unnoticed in the dirt hills outside Rangely, Colorado — surrounded by oil pumps and dirt bike trails — the profound acoustic beauty within is balanced by the austerity of its remote location and its simple industrial architecture.

Michael Stanwood, Mho Salim, and Mark McCoin talk about the TANK in Thought Process Films upcoming documentary.

THE TANK has changed the ears and hearts of everyone who has ever played there or listened to this cathedral of sound. It retunes our music and wakes up our ears to new potential. Sound comes from a mouth or an instrument and soars around the space, expanding its dimensionality, growing and moving and living and shifting until a single tone becomes a whole world of sound. One would be hard pressed to discover a space with greater potential for creative depth or exploration. Enter and THE TANK will totally alter what you think sound and music are.

But, now, THE TANK is in danger of the unthinkable: it could fall silent. No more music, no more sound. No more recording, teaching, collaborating, creativity. Rusting and decaying in the elements; left to dust, weather, vandalism, land speculation, and encroachment from the gas/oil boom — this could be the future for THE TANK.

This is why we have launched a Kickstarter Campaign.

We have come to Kickstarter to ask for your help to SAVE THE TANK! A successfully funded Kickstarter campaign will make OUR version of the future for THE TANK a reality. We will share this experience and open it up to others. We will invite old masters and young musicians to play and record there. We will make TANK music available to all on THE TANK CHANNEL, an internet community of musicians and listeners built around the amazing and transformative acoustics of this musical portal. We will rescue, save and preserve The Tank for the Human Spirit, for Creative Exploration, and for Posterity.

Here's what we plan to do: • Secure THE TANK, clean it, protect it, preserve it, share it. • Add solar power, a trailer/control room for recording and performances.

• Outreach to the Rangely schools and community organizations to provide workshops and performances.

• Make THE TANK available and accessible to musicians and sound artists from around the world to make recordings that can be done nowhere else. In the completely unique and special acoustics of THE TANK — a rusty accident that turns out to be a sonic miracle — they will experience a rich, harmonically shifting and three dimensional reverb, that will will transform how they hear their music. Forever. • Create THE TANK CHANNEL as an open source library to explore all music created at THE TANK — past, present, and future. For Rangely's own Sammi Moon (Wade), the TANK "has been in my life since I was a kid." She astounded all when she joined musicians in April, 2012 and let her extraordinary voice soar in the TANK. "Sammi's Song" is the result. Who Are We?

"Friends of THE TANK" is an eclectic group of artists, sonic explorers and practical minds bound by a common experience — THE TANK — who, one by one, have joined the ranks of the effort to save and develop this magnificent acoustic resource. This growing collective seeks to expand our numbers to include other courageous performers and passionate listeners.

Read the stories of Friends of THE TANK here.

Max Bernstein - Interdisciplinary Media Artist

Foster Brashear - Electronics designer, Inventor

Bob Drake - Musician, Songmaker, Recording Person

Mark Fuller - Mastering Engineer

Mary-Ann Greanier - Poet, Playwright, Activist

James Hoskins - Multi-instrumentalist, Middle-eastern music specialist

Dick LaFond - Civil Rights Lawyer

Lois LaFond - Singer/songwriter, Educator

Mark McCoin - Sound and Multimedia Artist, Educator

Jeremiah Moore - Sound Designer, Sound Artist

Ron Miles - Master Trumpeter, Educator

Bruce Odland - Composer, Sound Artist, Sonic Thinker

Cheri Perry - Owner, Main Street Coffee House, Rangely, CO

Barb Rossner - Information Systems Designer and River Runner

Mho Salim - Computer Scientist and River Runner

David Shoemaker - Composer and Entrepreneur

Britney Skelton - Nurse, Music Lover, Community Liason, Rangely, CO

Michael Stanwood - Musician, Performer, Educator, Keeper of the Tank

Barbara Wade - Longtime Rangely resident and TANK supporter from the beginning

Robert Wert - Lawyer, Businessman

The Rewards are listed on the side bar, but here are a few we think you'll love:

Save the TANK T-shirt

Leaving Eden: Bruce Odland's epic journey through love and loss of a beautiful Blue Green Planet.

Bardo Tank: Master Trumpet player Ron Miles explores deep space and reverb with percussionists Marc McCoin and Bruce Odland.

Portal: Michael Stanwood and friends' magical exploration of world instruments and Shamanistic impulses.

(Please listen on your best speakers or headphones so you can hear the full dimension of THE TANK's acoustics. It's worth it.)

Handmade TANK mug by Elizabeth Robinson, Rangely CO native.

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The Save the Tank Team thanks you so very much for your support!!!