16. Soaked to the skin in shadow

Speech transcription: Comforted by its warm glow, I imagined the heat given off by whatever bulb brought its red light to my starved eyes. How strange and dark and alone that underground civilisation must have felt when the emergency lights flickered or broke. 


Soaked to the skin in shadow like my foot in this puddle. Those terrifying echoes that travelled from their tunnels, of unidentifiable sounds, where a ripple could twist itself into a roar as it travelled. Sounds would have been elevated in place of sight for them. Drips from ceilings could have punched the ground to form puddles that rippled at the inhabitants feet - invisibly with no red light to catch on the rises and falls to show any sign of light and life.

Audio description: Some of the same sounds used in previous clip (#15) A throbbing, distorted drone noise pulses and echoes, with each pulse there is also a quiet two-note hollow almost-popping sound straight after. A low, bassy synth grows in at intervals, each time climbing or dropping in pitch slightly. Quiet dripping sounds come in, spatial and echoing like from a tunnel or cave, they carry throughout the clip. There is sometimes a sound of something heavier dropping, that sounds slightly metallic like a coin dropping into a puddle. An eerie, high pitch whistling synth in two tones descends and fades out, appearing again at wide spread intervals. After a few seconds of the above sounds playing, the text (above) is spoken. The sounds described above continue throughout, each moving in and out of the forefront a little. High pitched, distorted, airy whistling sounds begin to ebb into the mix, slowly growing louder. A slight ruffling noise, like movement. The figure 8 metallic sound comes back in and out of the background quietly. Here, a footstep sound quickly becomes an echo, this grows and feeds-back into itself. It gets louder and more distorted. It then begins to sound like something growling and skittering. The sound also begins to contain different pitches and tones layering over itself. Eventually, it trails off and you are taken back to softer drones, drips and whistles. These last sounds fade out and the clip ends.