Photo Credit: Ali Naqi
When a horror movie character is being stalked through the woods, not sure where danger lurks, peering around tree trunks, sure to find themselves face-to-freaking-face with a ghost/demon/axe murderer/monster, why do we find that moment so scary, exactly? Why, as we watch, from the safety of our living rooms, have we stopped breathing, and our chests feel tight, and we're frankly freaking the fuck out before the scare even happens?
It's the music. It's the horrible, eerie music that builds and builds our trepidation and anticipation for that big, scary reveal which isn't actually as scary as the dread we felt leading up to it was.
Well there is a specific instrument that is responsible for all that dread you feel, responsible for making that dark house, those empty streets, those creepy-ass woods 100% terrifying.
It's the music. It's the horrible, eerie music that builds and builds our trepidation and anticipation for that big, scary reveal which isn't actually as scary as the dread we felt leading up to it was.
Well there is a specific instrument that is responsible for all that dread you feel, responsible for making that dark house, those empty streets, those creepy-ass woods 100% terrifying.
Introducing the Waterphone!
A little-known instrument outside of music circles, the waterphone has been featured in the soundtracks to many movies, including Poltergeist, Let the Right One In (2008), The Matrix, Star Trek: The Motion Picture, Dark Water, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, ALIENS, The Spirit and more.
Check it out below, and just how simple it is to create an epic soundtrack to put you ill at ease.
Check it out below, and just how simple it is to create an epic soundtrack to put you ill at ease.
But What Does it Sound Like?
Had you heard of it? I'd never heard of it! Can you imagine playing the waterphone in the school band and making every song you play at school assembly give the audience a case of the heebie-jeebies? I would have been down with that.
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