DEADHOUSE

About DEADHOUSE

The BBC and Darkfield present an unnerving trilogy of immersive binaural experiences. Meet yourself in the DEADHOUSE. DEADHOUSE is a trilogy of immersive audio horror shorts, all for a single listener, lying down, with their eyes closed. Headphones are essential. The listener becomes the subject while the binaural sound surrounds and creeps towards them. Their familiar environments slip away, to be replaced by other, less comfortable, worlds that feel unnervingly real. Each episode is for the cold and the callous amongst us, and takes a look at the separation of mind and body. ‘There is music at the limits of my hearing. There are demons at the edge of my vision. There are ghosts in the machine’ - Edgar Allen Poe

Publisher

BBC Radio 4

Category

fiction

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

22 Oct 2021

Latest episode

29 Oct 2021

Latest episodes

4 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   29 Oct 2021

   3. XANADU

   What if consciousness outlives the body? What if there was an experience of being dead? You are dead. Your eyes do not react to light, in fact all your reflexes are absent. And that is because you are dead. Even if you were to briefly sit up, like Lazarus, it wouldn’t alter the fact. And they are burying you in the ground because you are dead. Hell, it turns out, is simply disembodied life. Content Warning: Death, Injury, Dead bodies, Medical procedures, Confined spaces, Strong language. THE BBC AND DARKFIELD PRESENT AN UNNERVING TRILOGY OF IMMERSIVE BINAURAL EXPERIENCES. MEET YOURSELF IN THE DEADHOUSE. DEADHOUSE is a trilogy of immersive audio horror shorts, all for a single listener, lying down, with their eyes closed. Headphones are essential. The listener becomes the subject while the binaural sound surrounds and creeps towards them. Their familiar environments slip away, to be replaced by other, less comfortable, worlds that feel unnervingly real. Each episode is for the cold and the callous amongst us, and takes a look at the separation of mind and body. DEADHOUSE was created by DARKFIELD for BBC Radio 4. Episode credits: ARTISTIC DIRECTORS: David Rosenberg & Glen Neath ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR: Matthew Blake CREATIVE PRODUCER: Victoria Eyton WRITER: Glen Neath SOUND DESIGNER: David Rosenberg PRODUCTION COORDINATORS: Sara Codrington & Mario Ruiz SOUND ASSOCIATE: Anna Sulley CASTING: John Cannon EXECUTIVE PRODUCER: Michael Salmon PERFORMERS: Kenneth Cranham as Death; Amit Shah as Diener; Nathalie Armin as Mother; John Dagleish as Porter/ Ferryman; Kathryn McGarr, Mia Jerome, Nigel Barrett, Mercy Ojelade, Linden Walcott-Burton, Jun kim, Matthew Blake, Lanna Joffrey, Rakhee Sharma and Walles Hamonde as hospital staff, mourners and all other characters. Special thanks go to Samuel Booth, Premises Studio and Karolina Jedrezejczyk from Sound Disposition.

2. 

   29 Oct 2021

   2. SALEM

   What if another mind could inhabit your body? Would you happily hand over the reins to them? Having been lulled into a hypnotic trance by a soporific voice you wake up somewhere you didn’t expect. You spend the next 20 minutes finding out where you have been and what you have done... Content warning: Depictions of hypnosis, Extreme Violence, Murder, Animal Cruelty, strong language. THE BBC AND DARKFIELD PRESENT AN UNNERVING TRILOGY OF IMMERSIVE BINAURAL EXPERIENCES. MEET YOURSELF IN THE DEADHOUSE. DEADHOUSE is a trilogy of immersive audio horror shorts, all for a single listener, lying down, with their eyes closed. Headphones are essential. The listener becomes the subject while the binaural sound surrounds and creeps towards them. Their familiar environments slip away, to be replaced by other, less comfortable, worlds that feel unnervingly real. Each episode is for the cold and the callous amongst us, and takes a look at the separation of mind and body. DEADHOUSE was created by DARKFIELD for BBC Radio 4. Episode credits: ARTISTIC DIRECTORS: David Rosenberg & Glen Neath ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR: Matthew Blake CREATIVE PRODUCER: Victoria Eyton WRITER: Glen Neath SOUND DESIGNER: David Rosenberg PRODUCTION COORDINATORS: Sara Codrington & Mario Ruiz SOUND ASSOCIATE: Anna Sulley CASTING: John Cannon EXECUTIVE PRODUCER: Michael Salmon PERFORMERS: Rosie Cavaliero as Woman; John Dagleish as Man on phone; Siyah the Dog as Salem. Special thanks go to Noa Bodner, Nasim and Jan Körting, Premises Studios and Karolina Jedrezejczyk from Sound Disposition. No animals were harmed in the making of this podcast.

3. 

   29 Oct 2021

   1. BETHLEHEM

   What if death is merely a pause? If you could live for just one more day, is that an offer you’d take up? You come into consciousness. You cannot speak. You cannot move. You cannot even make it understood that you hear everything going on around you. All you can do is listen as your fate and the fate of all the other recovered bodies on the ward with you are determined by petty-minded bureaucrats. Content warning: Medical procedures, Bodily fluids, Death, Dead bodies, Physical violence, Strong Language. THE BBC AND DARKFIELD PRESENT AN UNNERVING TRILOGY OF IMMERSIVE BINAURAL EXPERIENCES. MEET YOURSELF IN THE DEADHOUSE. DEADHOUSE is a trilogy of immersive audio horror shorts, all for a single listener, lying down, with their eyes closed. Headphones are essential. The listener becomes the subject while the binaural sound surrounds and creeps towards them. Their familiar environments slip away, to be replaced by other, less comfortable, worlds that feel unnervingly real. Each episode is for the cold and the callous amongst us, and takes a look at the separation of mind and body. DEADHOUSE was created by DARKFIELD for BBC Radio 4. Episode credits: ARTISTIC DIRECTORS: David Rosenberg & Glen Neath ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR: Matthew Blake CREATIVE PRODUCER: Victoria Eyton WRITER: Glen Neath SOUND DESIGNER: David Rosenberg PRODUCTION COORDINATORS: Sara Codrington & Mario Ruiz SOUND ASSOCIATE: Anna Sulley CASTING: John Cannon EXECUTIVE PRODUCER: Michael Salmon PERFORMERS: Lanna Joffrey as Director; Nathalie Armin as Mercy (Administrator); Amit Shah as Frank; John Dagleish as John (Orderly); Kathryn McGarr, Mercy Ojelade, Nigel Barrett, Linden Walcott-Burton, Jun Kim, Matthew Blake, Lanna Joffrey, Rakhee Sharma and Walles Hamonde as all other parts. Special thanks go to Premises Studio and Karolina Jedrezejczyk from Sound Disposition

4. 

   22 Oct 2021

   Introducing DEADHOUSE

   An unnerving trilogy of horror shorts. Meet yourself in the DEADHOUSE. DEADHOUSE is a trilogy of immersive audio horror shorts, all for a single listener, lying down, with their eyes closed. Headphones are essential. The listener becomes the subject while the binaural sound surrounds and creeps towards them. Their familiar environments slip away, to be replaced by other, less comfortable, worlds that feel unnervingly real. Each episode is for the cold and the callous amongst us, and takes a look at the separation of mind and body. ‘There is music at the limits of my hearing. There are demons at the edge of my vision. There are ghosts in the machine’ - Edgar Allen Poe

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3.9 / 5

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