Musical instruments that play the nightmare sounds created by horror movie composers "Apprehension Engine"

In a horror movie, sounds of wooden door "Guy ......" are squeaky, and BGM that scares anxiety and fear when the murderer comes closer are scattered. These movie sounds are created by sound designers trial and error, but a horror movie professional composer pursued a unique and horrible sound in analog rather than digital, as a result of a nightmare sound Musical instrument playing "Apprehension EngineI have built up.

Sounds of the Nightmare Machine - YouTube


Hikibu with fingers ......


"Ton ... ..." and the sound that the murderer creeps up. You can see that it is a gold ruler made of iron, not iron harp, that is set when you look closely.


When you hit the wooden plate with iron wire sticking on it, the sound like "Dadanda Dandadan ......" that bumped into some hardware will gradually become smaller.



If you slide a black part over the strings stretched like a guitar, a sound like opening a poorly standing door called "Geeee ......" will sound.


If you rub the stick on a curved steel plate, it is a metallic noise like rubbing rusted blade.


In this way, this instrument that can sound various fear-driving sounds is "Apprehension Engine". Literally translating it means "anxious engines".


A dubious expression man plays the Apprehension Engine.


This man is a film music composer Mark Koven. In recent years, he seems to undertake music production mainly for horror movies.


A state of music production.


The most famous movie in charge of Mr. Corben is "Cube"When……


"WitchThat thing.


Mr. Koben was originally using digital equipment to produce it, but he seems to be tired of digital sounds without individuality.


So Mr. Koben said that he began pursuing more experimental and acoustic original sounds.


So Mr. Koben contacted the guitar maker Tony Duggan Smith.


Mr. Smith recalls, "Mark Koven sent me a crazy instrument for horror movies." Mr. Smith, who had decided to make musical instruments that he had never made so far, gathered all his past experiences on a single musical instrument, and he said that the Apprehension Engine was completed.


In order to maximize the characteristics of Apprehension Engine, it is said that playing ability to play one and only instruments is also required.


Mr. Koben says, "This creates sounds that can not be expressed in other ways, it is a silo mono that can not be called music in a traditional sense, but the Apprehension Engine certainly evokes emotions, so I I call it music. "


In addition, if you want to listen to the sound of Apprehension Engine until endless ... ", you can watch the appearance that you are playing in the following movie.

Horror Musical Instrument - The Apprehension Engine - YouTube