#shorts Electronic horror music inspired by The Shining, Buchla Easel Command ARP-2600 Grandmother

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The score for the film The Shining was typical of Stanley Kubrick in that he selected existing works to edit instead of using a film composer. I found the Ligeti, Bartok, and Penderecki parts of the score to be particularly inspiring for horror music, in that there were so many aleatoric things happening in the strings and brass. I wanted to recreate that idea using electronic music, where the instrument itself becomes the musician, and I'm just controlling what comes in and out of the soundtrack. I'm making use of the random voltage in the Buchla 208c Easel Command and the sample and hold function of the Moog Grandmother. I played a small motif on the OB-6, because that SEM filter is just a classic horror movie sound, and I added DFAM drums to hold everything together. The held pitches are from the ARP-2600, which is imitating two string players sliding pitches apart.

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Patch Notes:
ARP-2600 normalled patch, manually moving the pitches apart and together.

Moog Grandmother
Sample and hold multiplied back to rate and attenuverted to pitch of the 2nd oscillator, imitating a musician selecting notes from a group of pitches to choose from.

Moog DFAM
Pitch to noise level

OB-6
Low pass SEM filter with resonance to the max, controlled by Novation bass station

Buchla 208c Easel Command
Random to pitch of both oscillators, sustain, decay, low pass gate 2, inverted to timbre
Pressure to modulation amount
Envelope generator to low pass gate 1