First-Person Recollections and Anecdotes
Tour: Voices from Eastern State
Featuring former officers and inmates, this tour literally restores life to this notorious prison built in 1829. Actor and director Steve Buscemi, provides the narration that guides the visitor through the massive and decrepit space. Acoustiguidešs engineers recorded sound effects on-site using a 360-degree binaural audio technology so that listeners hear cell doors slamming, guards issuing orders, inmates screaming from the catwalks, and televisions and radios playing period recordings from the cells.