Members rasputin1963 Posted September 15, 2015 Members Share Posted September 15, 2015 I see that audio for horror situations is a whole genre unto itself, with SFX created just to sound scary. The sound of ropes pulling taut, creaks/squeaks, damned souls in hell, maniacal laughter, demons growling, dogs barking, a whole slew of metallic sounds, childlike laughter, sub-bass frequencies, etc. And almost always with oceans of soupy reverb added. Check out these UnLiving Portraits... Digital animations that play on a TV screen. But especially listen to the audio that accompanies them. Some people are just very good, I guess, at stringing together horror audio FX, and these strike me as particularly good, as there are many layers in the audio montage, woven together very smoothly. I particularly like the discordant mash of old piano frequencies. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members rasputin1963 Posted September 15, 2015 Author Members Share Posted September 15, 2015 Similarly, I always thought this TV show theme was very good> It would be interesting to speculate on why these individual sonorities spell out "scary" to us (?) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members rasputin1963 Posted September 15, 2015 Author Members Share Posted September 15, 2015 More horror audio, this time from 1974's TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE. So? Why are these sounds scary to us? Do you suppose this audio is scary universally? Cross-culturally? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members rasputin1963 Posted September 15, 2015 Author Members Share Posted September 15, 2015 And almost always, that damned Waterphone. Why does it sound weird/scary/foreboding to our ears? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members blue2blue Posted September 15, 2015 Members Share Posted September 15, 2015 Similarly, I always thought this TV show theme was very good> It would be interesting to speculate on why these individual sonorities spell out "scary" to us (?) The Unsolved Mysteries theme sounded like a mash of the original Law & Order theme with what I remember of the X-Files theme. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members rasputin1963 Posted September 15, 2015 Author Members Share Posted September 15, 2015 Very interesting question about whether what one culture interprets as scary is interpreted the same way by other cultures. I'm going to have to think about that one a bit and listen to the audio examples before replying...meanwhile' date=' my snarky response is I've heard some mastering jobs that were horrifying [/quote'] Like the very first release, in 1985, of the Motown catalogue onto CD?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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