Swallowed by the Deep
- Format: podcast / binaural audio story
- Web version: binaural stereo
- Duration: 6 minutes
- Material: 1,020 sound clips, objects and graphic score
Listen to the binaural version
The player uses a binaural render of the spatial audio production, so the piece can be experienced on headphones.
Project context
Swallowed by the Deep is a narrative podcast about a diver trapped inside a whale. The piece is built as a physical listening experience, using spatial movement to make loneliness, pressure and claustrophobia felt.
Spatial dramaturgy
The story follows three acts: introduction, conflict and resolution. The whale’s heartbeat, sloshing movement, blood currents and underwater space are placed around the listener, while the diver moves through the height layer inside the whale’s body.
Sonic structure
Cello fragments, breath, radio noise and whale song create the contrast between organic sound and electronic disruption. Silence and masking are used to hide, disturb and tighten the tension as the radio communication breaks down.
Result
The work ends in an explosive exhalation through the whale’s blowhole and an open cello passage. The case shows my work with podcast dramaturgy, graphic score and translation from spatial production to a binaural listening version.