Producing Paranormal Sounds: Electronic Music, Projection, and Blurred Boundaries in The Legend of Hell House (1973) and The Stone Tape (1972)

Jamie Sexton

Producing Paranormal Sounds: Electronic Music, Projection, and Blurred Boundaries in The Legend of Hell House (1973) and The Stone Tape (1972)

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Abstract

This chapter interrogate two texts – the TV movie The Stone Tape and the theatrical release The Legend of Hell House – which were concerned, in different ways, with scientific investigations into paranormal material, and were both scored by people associated with the BBC Radiophonic Workshop (Desmond Briscoe and Glynis Jones on the former, Delia Derbyshire and Brian Hodgson on the latter). In the chapter, I explore the ways that electronic sounds were being incorporated into horror productions gradually, and how electronic sound was a particularly key resource at this juncture to create a sense of unease. The use of electronic music is further probed in terms of its ability to interlock with key themes of both texts: slippages between past and present, between science and the paranormal, and the notion of projection.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Haunted Soundtracks
Subtitle of host publication	Audiovisual Cultures of Memory, Landscape, and Sound
Editors	Kevin J. Donnelly, Aimee Mollaghan
Place of Publication	London
Publisher	Bloomsbury
Chapter	5
Edition	1st
ISBN (Electronic)	9781501389566, 9781501389573
ISBN (Print)	9781501389559
Publication status	Published - 2 Nov 2023

Publication series

Name	New Approaches to Sound, Music, and Media

Access to Document

https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/haunted-soundtracks-9781501389566/

Cite this

Sexton, J. (2023). Producing Paranormal Sounds: Electronic Music, Projection, and Blurred Boundaries in The Legend of Hell House (1973) and The Stone Tape (1972). In K. J. Donnelly, & A. Mollaghan (Eds.), Haunted Soundtracks: Audiovisual Cultures of Memory, Landscape, and Sound (1st ed.). ( New Approaches to Sound, Music, and Media). Bloomsbury. https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/haunted-soundtracks-9781501389566/

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Sexton, J 2023, Producing Paranormal Sounds: Electronic Music, Projection, and Blurred Boundaries in The Legend of Hell House (1973) and The Stone Tape (1972). in KJ Donnelly & A Mollaghan (eds), Haunted Soundtracks: Audiovisual Cultures of Memory, Landscape, and Sound. 1st edn, New Approaches to Sound, Music, and Media, Bloomsbury, London. <https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/haunted-soundtracks-9781501389566/>

Producing Paranormal Sounds: Electronic Music, Projection, and Blurred Boundaries in The Legend of Hell House (1973) and The Stone Tape (1972). / Sexton, Jamie.
Haunted Soundtracks: Audiovisual Cultures of Memory, Landscape, and Sound. ed. / Kevin J. Donnelly; Aimee Mollaghan. 1st. ed. London: Bloomsbury, 2023. ( New Approaches to Sound, Music, and Media).

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