Today we’re doing a little horror sound design trick: playing tone clusters! Let’s be intentionally disturbing as an alternative way to look at our instruments and our music-making.
What other horror-inspired techniques do you know?
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Contents:
0:00 What’s the opposite of harmony?
0:45 Tone clusters from horror films
1:27 Making a tone cluster in Ableton Live with sine waves
2:02 Pitchbending it up
2:38 Sound designing strings instead
3:08 Shepard’s tones
3:24 What other horror techniques exist?