When I was in art school, we always had music playing as we worked to help enhance our creativity. These songs are probably not to most people's tastes because they have lots of weird synthesizers and spooky ambient sound effects, but I find them strangely artistically inspiring. Barren Ground – Delerium – Spiritual ArchivesĪmongst the Ruins is my favorite song in this playlist, but I think that Somnolent is by far the creepiest song with strange howling beasts and a preacher that sounds like a demon (or a Goa'uld). Death from Above – Brannan Lane – Lost Caverns of Theraġ4. Pool of Tears – Chris Vrenna – American McGee's Aliceġ1. Temple of Light – Delerium – Archives, Vol. Fathoms – Delerium – Spiritual Archivesĩ. Nightmare – Ronan Hardiman – Lord of the DanceĨ. Cavern I – Black Air – Brannan Lane – Lost Caverns of Theraĥ. Spirit in the New World – Ronan Hardiman – Lord of the Danceģ. Once you’re done, you can make a scary video with the music you’ve just made as the soundtrack, use it as a scary background music for your Halloween party, and the likes.While I often listen to classical music or relaxing new age music when I'm writing papers or working on one of my websites, I sometimes like to listen to something a little bit different or somewhat darker like this playlist of my favorite creepy ambient electronic songs.Ģ. OK, that’s all for our short article on how to make your own spooky music. You can be sure something terrible is going to happen to those kids. Listen to the new mix and an image pops in your head with kids happily playing on the beach, while screams coming from a desolate beach house. As an example, if you use the Halloween nightmare mix as your starting point and load the beach with kids sound on the first channel, you end up with an even scarier atmosphere. Mix your own Halloween horror ambianceĭon’t be shy to mix things up. Load different sounds to any channel and see what you can come up with. To make this as painless as possible, just head over to and browse the Halloween ambient mixes.Ĭheck out the Halloween ambient mixes and pick one as your starting point. Well, it can take quite a good chunk of your time to look for scary sound effects and combine them. You can imbue fear, pain, and terror into your music using the right kind of scream. Different kinds of screams can depict different emotions. You can also add its variations like wailing or shrieking. Add screams of horrorĬreepy scream is the cherry on top for spooky music. Try listening to Basso Ostinato by Shchedrin to understand how it’s played. A repetitive melody, even a subtle one, can add a haunting effect when played in a music piece end to end. In music, a continually repeated musical phrase or rhythm is called ostinato. You can grab just the scary parts and spread them out throughout your music. There are many more creepy melodies, of course, but those five should be enough for a start.īy the way, you don’t have to fit the whole piece into your music. Other recommended pieces are Night on Bald Mountain by Mussorgsky, Sycek Neodletel by Leos Janacek, Totentanz by Liszt, and Scriabin’s 6th sonata. The first and second movement of Bartok’s piano sonata is quite unpredictable and can sound scary to the common population. Try to listen to various classical music pieces. How to Make Scary Music Add PianoĪ scary soundtrack needs a scary piano playing in the background. The ingredients for a good horror music is aplenty, but we’ll focus on a small subset of it so we won’t get overwhelmed and end up with nothing. By scary music, we mean spooky background music that you can play to create that bone-chilling atmosphere.īefore we go and make the music, we need to gather the ingredients first. Image By: that we’re officially in Spooktober, the topic of making a scary music seems in order.
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