I absolutely love scary movies. And more than that, I love writing scary music. Detuned pianos, screeching strings, and mysterious percussion that goes bump in the night. That’s my jam.
Every Halloween, I try to write something in a different spooky genre for the Scriptnotes podcast. This year, I went for that in-your-face, super dry sound we’ve been hearing in recent horror films and trailers. I love how much texture and grit we can get out of violins, cellos, and prepared pianos.
For this track, I leaned hard on the libraries from Silence + Other Sounds, featuring extremely extended technique for those instruments. I was pretty happy with (and pretty creeped out by) the results. In past years, I’ve created retro synth horror tracks and pieces that sounded more like The Sixth Sense or The Ring, but I feel these eerie sounds took Halloween to a new level for me.
I hope you enjoy this spooky track. Check out my past horror outros for Scriptnotes here.
And as always, if you find yourself in need of creepy music, feel free to reach out to me. There’s nothing I love more than a horror film.
Happy listening!
- Matthew
only the creepiest quartet plays music here…