and for some reason, I was also reminded of a former local band, "Voice of Eye"
I think now I'm going to have to tune in somafm's "Doomed" channel ;)
You know what you should do, nolabear? Forget going to all the trouble of making up a playlist and subsequent CD/mp3 file. Just tune in somafm's Doomed channel and you're all set! :D
Love that song! The whole thing is excellent, especially the bonus disc with spooky, ambient tracks.
I saw the movie only recently and it was so much better than I expected. The scene at the motel when Richard Gere gets the phone call from Indrid Cold is awesomely creepy.
SPK DOKUMENT II The second in the series to update on progress and projekts. We have begun working on the second album: LEICHENSCHREI, due for release from the US in May, 82. This will be the final product, as we originally intended. However, there will be a movement into video and film, beginning with L'Etat Haemophiliaque (Intemal Bleeding) which is in progress and will have its first screening in Australia later this year. SPK will then specialise in soundtrack, a medium we have always had a strong sympathy with. In response to the considerable interest shown in our projekt so far, we have decided to devote a Dokument to an explanation of some of the areas of research into sound and visuals which we have used. Subliminal content in lyrics and voice tapes occupies much of our attention. However it requires feedback from others in order to evaluate their effectiveness. That is why we always encourage personal correspondence, even though various members of the group prefer to remain anonymous (as far as possible). In addition, we try to provide some interesting information on experiments into mental phenomena, and to dispel some of the boring myths about infra/ultra-sonics. We have often been asked the reason for apparently limiting ourselves to the mental sphere. The answer is that we feel the need to intensify interest in the SPECIFIC locus of consent to be repressed in the individual. We therefore claim to be "political," but not in the accepted sense of the term. In 1982 SPK will abandon its earlier practice of limited publik appearances, with scheduled live assaults in Japan, Europe and Amerika. SOUNDS OF EMOTIONAL DISTURBANCE There exist dynamic mechanisms whereby the emotionally disturbed person produces a specific acoustic impact on the listener. Acoustic patterns are subject not only to the physiological laws governing respiration and phonation, but also to social rules regarding acoustic expression of emotion. Experiments by Peter Ostwald in 1960 resulted in objectification of some patterns into four categories: 1. Hysterical/excited subjects produced a 'sharp' voice with acoustic doubling in the mid-range, identical to children's voices. 2. Depresse`Vobsessional people show persistent fixing of one fundamental tone, and a midrange pattern smeared out in a 'flat' way across the spectrum. 3. Organically ill/emotionally drained subjects have characteristically 'hollow' voices with just a single concentration of sound energy at the low end of the spectrum. There is steady dropping off of energy in the mid-range and wasting away in the upper region, responsible for unintelligibility. 4. A 'robust' voice was characteristic of those who felt the need to be heard, to impress and influence others. This was most often displayed by epileptic personalities, and by hypomaniacs and some neurotic subjects. But what effects do such impact patterns have on the auditory system of the listener? The intake structure of the human ear favors the mid-range of the acoustic spectrum. Sounds there produce a much stronger impact than equally intense insonation at the upper and lower extremes. Hence the reason that the human scream is concentrated over that area. Acoustic records of psychiatric patients reveals certain peaks along the frequency-intensity spectrum more recurrent and prominent than others. When subjected to stress situations, ordinary subjects exhibit a gain in acoustic intensity at 125Hz and 500Hz. It is more complicated with psychiatric patients, but the measure of total loudness is significant also at 500Hz. In addition these observations were taken before and after various standard types of treatment, the results showing that there was a significant increase in loudness after electroconvulsive therapy and a decrease after drug treatment. It is of interest that the 500HZ band is the most significant, since it is here that the neonatal infant emits the first cry. The experiments also showed there was little difference between patterns of the two sexes, indicating that sounds of acutely disturbed patients stem from some primitive, pregenital response pattern. SUBLIMINALS AND UNCONSCIOUS The unconscious provides frames through which consciously perceived data is interpreted and evaluated. The task of art, music, literature, psychoanalysis and advertising, is to penetrate and manipulate these structures. The effectiveness of any of these fields has very little to do with conscious perception. The most blatant use of subliminals is of course found in advertising, but in art is goes a lot further back. The most usual technique is EMBEDDING of words or pictures in the ground of the advertisement, behind the figure (or obvious focal point). This technique was a favorite with 18th Century artists, and must later Dali, Escher etc. A subliminal imprint of the word SEX can even be found in a Rembrandt. This is the most common of a vocabulary of eight words (including CUNT, FUCK and DEATH) which are very frequently embedded in advertising copy. The word is either painted on a photoengraving plate with asphaltum and briefly immersed in acid, or lightly airbrushed into a photograph in hair, folds of clothing, etc., or written onto a transparent overlay, photographed alone at about 1/2,000 of a second, then double exposed at the art layout at around 1/100 of a second. The zenith of obscenity was reached in the daily newspaper photograph of Vietnam atrocities, which often had an extraordinary mosaic of SEX's scrawled subliminally over them (see photo)
Tom Waits did a version of Heigh Ho (The dwarf's marching song from Snow White) on an album called Stay Awake. It was covers of Disney songs. When I played this one for my baby, I cried! It was scary!. And surprising, considering what a happy song it was supposed to be. Interesting interpretation. You can find it on You tube, but I'm an idiot and don't know how to link it. Sorry.
31. creepiest song ever: Frankie Teardrop by Suicide
I played it one night while my husband was in another room drifting off to sleep and the next day he chewed me out for giving him nightmares and made me promise never to play it again. This is a shortened version, which I would not recommend for the easily disturbed:
My absolute favorite creepy music would be the soundtracks from the Silent Hill games. The music is melancholy and haunting, in the best possible way. Here's a tiny little taste, but all the SH soundtracks are uniformly awesome: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_qasnp026MY
Good call on the Silent Hill soundtracks too. Even the track "End Of Small Sanctuary" from Silent Hill 3 which is kind of warm and summery has a really eerie feel to it.
32. Velvet Acid Christ does good creepy. but i'm curious about the type of creepy.
'cuz i could recommend Wumpscut, or maybe some of the more melancholy matieral of Joy Division (but isn't it all melancholy!? ;) ). And that's just easily recognized Western stuff.
... how far into to the abyss do you wish to stare? :evilgrin:
62. Hope Sandoval and the Warm Inventions "For the Rest of Your Life"
Never let your hand shake when you're firm on your blade Never keep a keepsake of the spill that you make Keep your eyes peeled on the bridge that you burn Never lay your hand in the furnace of gold
Oh for the rest of your life Oh ‘cause you'll never be here twice Oh ‘cause your mama's in your face Oh gonna pay that big price
Anything by Whitehouse "Go Spread Your Wings" by Godflesh 2001: A Space Odyssey soundtrack The Exorcist Sountrack Tubular Bells - Mike Oldfield Early Man - Steve Roach
(sadly, there's much i have that i cannot find a Youtube vid for. most of my creepiest stuff will just have to go unknown. :( but if you have a concept, give the description and it's easy to narrow down after that.)
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