Searching for the 'world's spookiest music'
Spacedog has teamed up with psychologist and magician Richard Wiseman to find the ‘world’s spookiest music’
Why is some music spookier than others? Which tracks give you a shiver down the spine? Is it the music, the lyrics or the association with a creepy film or place that gives it that edge?
We’d love you to tell us so we’ve set up a mini survey to find the ‘world’s spookiest music’ (well, at least Brighton’s spookiest). Jenny and I promise to perform the most chilling number in Electroplasm – a brand new show that mixes music with a live reconstruction of a Victorian séance.
We’re up for any music that gets under your skin – whether it’s an old Bowie number or a nursery rhyme with lyrics that gave you the creeps as a kid. If it gives you that delightful shiver down the spine, we want it in our show. Across the evening, we’ll be perform with vocals, theremin, saw and some unsettling home-spun automata (including Uncanny Valerie, a moving, ‘all-seeing’ 1950s doll). And once we’ve chilled you to the bone with our eerie music, the theatre will fall into complete darkness as Richard Wiseman invites you to participate in the evening’s séance.
Author of popular science book Quirkology, Richard has been researching the psychology and social history of the Victorian séance for many years. He’s advised world-class performers on séances, including Brighton resident Nick Cave (for his recent promo video Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!!). Ooooh….
**** Survey participants can also enter our draw for two pairs of free tickets to the show ****
Comments (2)
Jain Gawne
10 April 2009 at 13:21
spooky music huh?
Weeeell, all the old cliches of children chanting nursery rhymes/playground songs is always quite haunting.
Have you heard of Clearlake? They come from Brighton I think… a few of their songs are very haunting but I particularly like Jumblesailing.
Most of the White Noise An Electric Storm in Hell is pretty cool.
Portishead Roads.
I also reckon that something along the lines of Ian drury’s My Old Man played in a haunting background type of way would be quite spooky…
I shall add more as I have a think
Jain x
dan grantby
26 April 2009 at 17:45
hello Sarah…..ligetti’s lontano as used by kubrick (shining).
less obviously, try pearl’s song from night of the hunter ( “once there was a fly, a pretty fly…”) .
walter schumann’s score is as eerie as charles laughton’s giant toads as the children float downstream from the preacher…
have a copy if needed.
best
d
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