Listen again to the strings above how the devil’s tone sounds on Soundation. Here’s a melodic tritone laid out for you in the project. As a result, it gives a feeling of floating suspense. Simply put, tritone sounds unresolved, like something is left hanging. There are many classifications of dissonance out there, but tritone - the interval made up of 6 notes - is the one with the most squirming effects. Interval is a relationship, or tone, between two notes and it can either be pleasant/consonant (think Christmas music) or unnerving/dissonant. The key to the unsettling sound of Halloween’s theme song lies in the awkward tonality achieved from a dissonant interval.
While this technique might not sound as entertaining as playing a song backward and decoding satanic messages, take a listen to this. No, we’re not talking about satanic backmasking. There’s actually such a thing as “devil’s music”. Get these retro hypnotic grooves with a VA synth just like what we did for the project, and drench them in reverb for a goosebumps guaranteed scare-athon. Instead, the 70s and 80s were the golden eras for deep, swirling synth pads made for slow but adrenaline-pumping and heart-racing terror. Long gone were the days of a theatrical, in-your-face musical score. Analog SynthĪs the 1970s arrived, Satan’s new tool of the trade emerged: analog synthesizers. With a string preset on our GM-2, you can make your own version of screeching violins to intensify all the jumpscare moments as much as your heart desires (and as much as your listeners’ hearts can handle.). Take a listen to our version of screeches made from strings down below. In the film, violins are used for percussive effects, creating cold screeches and chilling shrieks that have given moviegoers nightmares since the Hitchcock classic was released in 1960. Psycho‘s shower scene is the ultimate evidence of how much strings instruments can add to a dark and sinister ambience. Here are the theremin sounds in our project.
Just adjust the glide and vibrato, and you’ve got yourself the perfect sounds for when you meet them aliens. On Soundation, you can summon the otherworldly sounds of theremin (minus the odd hand gestures) with VA synth.
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While theremin never quite took off when it was invented in the 1930s, this century-old instrument has lended its ethereal sound effects to many flying-saucers landed on earth movie scenes, due to its weird continuously gliding pitches. Squealing music made by manipulating magnetic fields with your hands? It can’t get more sci-fi than that. To make your own booming organ sounds on Soundation, choose GM-2 for an instrument and select an Organ preset. Take a listen to the organ sounds we made for the project down below. And that’s exactly the vibe you want to create at your next Halloween party. A staple in horror films since Hollywood’s silent film era, organ music, notably Bach’s Toccata and Fugue in D minor, is today synonymous with cobwebbed mansions on top of looming hills. Produced by wind being sent through pipes, organ sounds are trembling, thunderous and reverberating. There’s a reason why people say the sound of an organ sends chills up their spines.
So instead of settling for a ready-made playlist with all the mainstays (Ever feel exhausted of listening to Michael Jackson’s “Thriller” three times at a party? Us too.) Read on to learn how you can cook up your own scary music to ramp up your next Halloween party’s fear factor, using the tools available right here on Soundation. For others like us, Halloween is a time of year to make eerie, sustained drones and dark, otherworldly music. For many, Halloween is the season for clowns, scarecrows and zombies.
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