scary music ( help )

[=Joel=]

Anyone know the name of the type of music that is like orchestra, but scary?

i was listening to some radio station the other night and they were playing some crazy scary music, it was like orchestra, chamber and techno all mixed in, like screams and demon sounds effects in the background, pretty cool. anyone know some names?

 

[vivabrahms]

Penderecki?

 

[LaxItUp]

Carmina Burana has some pretty cool music

 

[LaxItUp]

Carmina Burana has some pretty cool music

 

[LaxItUp]

Carmina Burana has some cool stuff... Check out O fortuna...

 

[LaxItUp]

Sorry, my comp screwed up...

 

[BlackSaab52]

Zoar is quite eerie (http://www.zoar.com). You can listen to some of their music at their site. Do you play any Silent Hill Games? Any soundtracks from those (they are by Akira Yamaoka, btw) are scary. There are downloads from some of the official SH soundtracks at http://www.silenceisbroken.com . The SH music isn't very orchestral, but still scary.

 

[stonetoflesh]

Scary? I can point you in the right direction. Start with George Crumb's Black Angels: Thirteen Images From the Dark Land for electric string quartet. Mix in Stockhausen's Gruppen and Mixtur, Xenakis' Kraanerg, maybe Ligeti's Atmospheres for starters... Or just go for anything by the avant-chamber-prog groups ART ZOYD or UNIVERS ZERO. An afterthought: Hearing Solar Winds by David Hykes & the Harmonic Choir is some of the most eerily beautiful a capella vocal music I've ever heard...

 

[lummoxcooties]

trans-siberian orchestra? they play a lot of christmas music that is a little scary/metal sounding

 

[symphonyb]

yes & may I suggest you don't listen to it after midnight.. he hit the main freakies here!

Scary? I can point you in the right direction. Start with George Crumb's Black Angels: Thirteen Images From the Dark Land for electric string quartet. Mix in Stockhausen's Gruppen and Mixtur, Xenakis' Kraanerg, maybe Ligeti's Atmospheres for starters... Or just go for anything by the avant-chamber-prog groups ART ZOYD or UNIVERS ZERO. An afterthought: Hearing Solar Winds by David Hykes & the Harmonic Choir is some of the most eerily beautiful a capella vocal music I've ever heard...

 

[Woody]

This is prob not very helpfull...
but we have this kinda scary tension filled song we play in our school band, its called Silent Movie, it has a great part for every on too!

 

[Idicious]

Devil Doll has some pretty insane/psychotic orchestral music with about every other type of music thrown in (al but 1 of their albums are 1 like 1 hour long song)

 

[Jon_]

Anyone know the name of the type of music that is like orchestra, but scary?

i was listening to some radio station the other night and they were playing some crazy scary music, it was like orchestra, chamber and techno all mixed in, like screams and demon sounds effects in the background, pretty cool. anyone know some names?

Not classical, but check out Midnight Syndicate. They have some pretty eerie, atmospheric type stuff. Pretty cool.

 

[crusader711]

freaky, but trans-syberian orchestra plays like clasical/metalica music w/o words. what station?

 

[Kenny C.]

You want scary? Check out "Threnody for the Victims of Hiroshima" by a composer who's last name is Penderecki. I have no idea how to spell is first name.
-Kenny

 

[stonetoflesh]

You want scary? Check out "Threnody for the Victims of Hiroshima" by a composer who's last name is Penderecki. I have no idea how to spell is first name.
-Kenny

Krzysztof Penderecki is the man, thanks for reminding me of that piece! Did you ever hear the album he did with Don Cherry, Actions (for free jazz orchestra)? It's pretty amazing...

 

[Kenny C.]

I'll need to check that out. After hearing Threnody, I really want to hear his choral works.

-Kenny

 

[but'n'ben]

I think tubular bells is pretty scary!

 

[dcrowther3]

Ravel Piano Concerto for the Left Hand.
Written for an amputee pianist from the First World War.
Dramatic -- Exciting -- Weird --The Ehd Things.

 

[dcrowther3]

Try Liszt's Totentanz (Dance of the Dead).

Usually recorded on discs with the other Liszt concertos.