Horror Musical Instrument - The Apprehension Engine
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 7 ก.ย. 2024
- NEW The Apprehension Engine has come a long way since this video was made. Here's a performance from 2020: • Apprehension in Quaran...
I made a sketch of an idea I had for an instrument that specialized in creating horrifying sounds, and together with my good friend Tony Duggan-Smith, we designed it and Tony built it for me, with the intention of using it in horror film score.
Credit where credit is due: the ideas was influenced by a Vimeo video called, "Koka's Soundtrack Box #1". Go see for yourself. It's pretty cool. vimeo.com/1683...
It consists of metal rulers which are bowed, a hurdy gurdy like mechanism, a string played with an attached Ebow, a spring reverb (also played with an ebow) some long metal rods, magnets, trash, anything at all to get unnerving sounds.
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Im gonna play this in our garage, in the middle of the night, when kids still roam the streets. I would scare the crap out of those kids.
Eclair Lacroix you.are.a.GENIUS.
Eclair Lacroix My kind of person.
Eclair Lacroix you are my man
Play this thing over a loud speaker the night of Halloween. That aught to set the atmosphere.
Oh and you have to record it!!!
Child: "Can you play me a lullaby?"
Dad: "yeah sure"
_existential dread intensifies_
Not funny. Be quiet.
Not funny. Be quiet
Haha
@유키 but i asked
@유키 but i didn't ask
this is what i'm talking about when i'm talking about asmr
I can feel the tingles already!
I mean it's whatever okay some quality bedtime relaxation right here
Not to forget the sweet dreams you'll get afterwards...
What is asmr please?
Hell yeah. This tingles me a lot,only until that thing starts screaming,that I find disturbing
The type of music you hear when your parents find your report card in the garbage bin
Ah... I see you
Yikes. That is indeed worthy of tune from a horror movie.
Diarrhea
Hi again everywhere :D
OH BOY😂
I bet your neighbours love you
Bet his neighbours love Jew too.
Captain Trips *facepalm*
"Love, what the hell are these strange noises?"
*[MUFFLED KVETCHING IN THE DISTANCE]*
If i found out this person was my neighbor I would weep tears of gratitude for my good fortune
Is it weird that I find 99% of these sounds deeply pleasant?
Damn psychopath, okay.
Then you, my friend, are my kind of person
Not at all.
Music is a compilation of sounds that evoke an experience.
When resorted solely strict, trite systems, it is no longer music.
no, music is subjective, I finds these sounds very pleasing as well..but I also like harsh noise blasting through my eardrums so yeah that's that
2:31 perfect for alien movies
Floof Overload it sounds familiar
@@nick3020 war of the worlds?
The Prowler theme?
@@preddes6522 yes I think so
William sapon
The prowler theme is miles them reversed.
This instrument is officially my utmost favorite already. It's awesome to think such a whack-looking thing could make such amazingly effective sounds you'd think would belong to the sound of two metal bars or some shit scraping together.
very interesting, i would have thought they'd gone all digital with these types of sounds
He would be probably the only guy that's not gonna be scared to any horror movies
yeah , he's like "I know thats just a metal ruler"
When he watches the horror movies, he will not to watch the stories, instead, he will busy to guess what probably instrument that be used in the movie... 🤣
who knows...
I’m guessing you haven’t realized yet that all the ‘scary’ moments in horror movies happen when the music/sounds stop and it’s suddenly quiet..
He’s the main villain 😅
It's crazy how the sounds produced at 2:30 can sound so human-like. Some parts actually sound like someone crying and whimpering in pain, especially towards the end of that segment
It just sounds like a distorted electric guitar...
Sounded like the start of a doom sound track
It's called an ebow. People use it on guitars, usually.
It's like I'm walking down a long ass creepy corridor
DJ - W0LFB3AT5 yeah try are annoying they just trying way too hard bro
Came here after Sushin Shyams reference. Love you Sushin!
Vere aarum etheele nammal maathre ullu❤
@@muhammad9083 Ejjactly!😄
Ethu interview?
@@John_C_J He said he created something new like this for Manjummel boys.
With the right sound you can summon Cthulu
ikr. or my mother in law
Asmodai281 Is your profile picture the German general from Band of Brothers?
The Famous Eccles HAAAA! 😂😂😂
let's call it Cthulhuphone!
Asmodai281 more like Satin
Everything between 2:24 and 3:00 gave me chills. Just imagine right at 2:40 a silhouette of what looks like a person rises up behind you, but still at a bit of a distance away from you. Then at 2:37 it's standing directly behind you, so close that you can feel it's breath on your neck.
Spooky stuff.
Very underrated comment
2:23 sounds like WW2 fighter jet
He's using an eBow... an electronic bow with settings to up the octave, or entice feedback.
But *why* does music like this work so...effectively? What makes it so horrifying?
Hi Vsauce, Michael here!
(The answer you're looking for is on his channel)
Science
Ambiguity. You know its music, but you know its no music any sane person would make.
Vvibration and frequency
Discord,sustain and shitloads of reverb
Wonderful! Incredible SFX from an analog machine. Much easier, actually, than making them digitally.
Well, mostly, kinda. It is certainly being run thru a digital or software based reverb. 🙂 Which I love.
This is insane. Lots of effects, but the sounds are unreal
Interesting that you say "insane". Before we decided on "The Apprehension Engine", Tony wanted to name it "The Insanerator"!
"Unreal" is an understatement. How about "inhuman"?
@@1OZPLAY4BMFO what about just straight up from another planet
@@indiefilmandmusic wow
@@indiefilmandmusic
Dr. Heinz Doofenshmirtz: Don't you mean Insane-INATOR?!
me: plays this
youtube: recommends creepy video
me: *and that’s how i got lack of sleep*
Now I want to make a horror film just so you have an excuse to utilize this awesomeness, lol.
Cool!
Are you and Robert Eggers going to continue collaborating on his next project?
Hi Haden. That would be the remake of Nosferatu.
Nothing is written in stone, but there's a good chance of it.
Oh man, seriously? That sounds amazing, I can't wait to see how that turns out.
I think the echo effect is what makes it truly horrified.
2:34 R.I.P. headphone users!
MotionSickness thanks for the heads up. Read your comment 15secs before hand. Good looking out😂
that part sounds like some Trent Reznor business lol
The moment ya stub your toe on the leg of the table
Me
Antonio Hernandez me too!
Wife: Honey, can you get a DJ for the kid's party? I know it's game day, I'm sorry.
Me: I know just the guy.
It's round midnight, thought I would watch one last video before I take a pee and finally go to sleep.
Now I don't freakin' dare to go to the damn toilet.
This man hasn't used his toilet in over two years.
Why
Told u shudve brought a chamber pot in bed
I'm in the mf toilet listening to this 🙃 I'm never leaving
Did u pee ur pants
3:21 Soma horror game ambient *confirmed*
The places I end up on youtube...
yeah pretty much what i am telling me right now.
The wonderful part of TH-cam.
Make 2:22 - 2:40 about 5x louder and you've got yourself a SUNN O))) concert.
Is there just the one or is the Apprehension Engine available to purchase?
You can go to www.apprehensionengine.com for more info. Only two have been produced so far.
@@indiefilmandmusic sad, I would love to do pranks with this
I would so learn guitar just to make some metal with it
Never thought a legend like you would be here also!
I don't want to be neighbors
0:45 i need 1 hour of that sound
Jimmy Page would love this
Could've used it on "whole lotta love" I think!
hello!
Maybe you might enjoy Keith Rowe (from AMM) -- /watch?v=HnUVpiFHhmM
Les Claypool
or dazed and confused
How can an instrument like this create so many sounds is what fascinates me. I can see or hear some of the sounds being used in movies to be fair. This is oddly satisfying to listen to.
That is art. It's fantastic :)
Thanks Mathew! my life began in Fine Arts and that is where still reside in everything I do. Tony
its TERRIFYINGLY FANTASTIC
Listening to this while reading horror articles online. Such an experience
2:30 the best rock instrument ever xd
How many of u come here after sushin shyam interview?
😃
😅
I too came
Sushin Syam's interview Effect 😊
This should be on a loop, so we can all listen to it while sleeping.
Make a 10 hour version and post it here.
crazy
Actually that would be quite cool. I'd listen.
I'd listen to that 😂
That would be awesome!!
its like a kalimba and a violin had a child
and the child was terrifying
edit: and then that child had a child with a hurdy-gurdy
They then make a band with a theramin and a waterphone, and sleep is cured!
this is all over the hannibal series ost. glad to finally know what makes that amazingly spooky sound!
Such a simple machine, capable of so much... Apprehension... Awesome.
Imagine if you could get discernible notes out of this! I want someone to play lavender town's theme with one of these
You can with harmonics.......but it's nasty!
The long drone strings could probably be used to play melodies with a slide, either with the ebow or just by plucking them. It wouldn't be easy, but with overdubs or looping you could construct basically anything.
Why do I find this relaxing?
This is a sound designer's dream! Seriously, this is incredible. Mind telling me what reverb plugin you used?
Hi,
Eventide black hole.
M
knew it!!!! blackhole is amazing! :)
Isn’t there a reverb tank on the machine
INDIE FILM MAKER may I ask what preset was used?
Those suspended metal rods and bars are awesome! You can do some great stuff with that! And I like the hurdy-gurdy style spinning wheel for the strings. Although, everything is great. The Ebow stuff is also worth mentioning, that has a real weight to it.
Terrifyingly soothing
People who make these sounds during movies are called "Foley Artists". That machine is so cool.
I don't really think of it as a musical instrument per se. It really is a musical foley machine.
this gives me chills
2:52-2:57 sounds like a perfect Space Rock intro
As terrifying and amazing as this is, did anybody else expect the halo 2 bungie intro when he was messing around with the electric guitar-ish mechanism?
Is it weird that I find this relaxing?
i don't know why this reminds me to silent hill games it's so dope!
"What kind of music are you into?"
Me: "It's...hard to explain."
the part at 2:52 when it gets distorted sounds perfect
The mother of all instrumental horror themes
2:20 - 2:59 I love that sound. I liked the sound of the Tripods(War of the Worlds) and Reapers(Mass Effect) and that sounds like it. Like a big Alien machine that is arising out of the ground.
Can you imagine hearing this sound fx in the middle of the night in the place you don't belong?
the re-verb Tank creates some Awesome effects. I had one when I was in my early teens, and when I got bored with just the echo voice effect through a mic, I started messing around with plunking and rubbing the springs. the tank had a small Vac. Tube Pre-Amp. which I fed its output into a Vac. Tube power amp I had for a turn-table. But I never thought of mounting the tank to a box and adding all the other things to your device is like a electronic version of the water harps they used in Old horror movies from the 60's, 70's. but I think it does a lot more effects then they did. Awesome Vid Man, Thanks :)
You’re most welcome!
Billy thorpe children of the sun on acid
I dont know why but why do i feel like i want this in band 😆
"what kind of horror do you want?"
yes.
Waterphone has nothing on this
Also, I could see this being used in metal music
I like the waterphone better than this. Except the things sticking out on the front of it have a pretty neat sound.
Ayo! It's Shining Armor
Shining Armor waterphone is an instrument. this thing is 58 different instruments duct taped to a wooden box
Huy Quang Phạm , what is "up" with your profile picture, XD!
Having great songs in a horror movie is fine but a great score is what gets you there. Your work is *really* atmospheric!
engineer or artist who made the instrument is sick............ and that is awesome!
Why is this thing creeping me out even more than if I heard it in a horror film?!
that's freaking scary
This thing is so good at producing these grating, unsettling sound textures, but then the guy playing it has this uncanny ability to just pop a little crescendo in there that sounds like a distorted inhuman scream
I think it's because the noise is so unnatural, it just messes with our primal instincts
After stumbling across this vid during lockdown, was inspired to build my own. Even thou it evolved into a different (more percussive) type of instrument I must thank you for the spark.
Outlast II noise
Majki 666 every horror game uses almost the same sounds.
I know
Freaking OUTLAST.
Outlast 2 was as bad as outlast 1 was good
what i find amazing is that someone thought to use sounds like these to evoke fear and applied it to films successfully. so successfully in fact that there's now an instrument for it. people amaze me
This shit would be perfect for a Godzilla film
Grandmaster Bushido Brown To create King Ghidorah's roar
Grandmaster Bushido Brown omg yes! 3:25 would be Godzilla’s stomp
Before circuit bending, there was... Apprehension
Tell you what, I wouldn't have been so apprehensive about going to shop class had we been building these magnificent contraptions.
Slap a picture on of the deep black ocean, and you got movie right there.
This is what I call the appropriate use of avant-garde. It's not different for its own sake, like a lot of advant-garde is. When something is different for its own sake, then it's really just a gimmick. But this actually serves a specific purpose that cannot be achieved through conventional means. In this case creating a sound score that doesn't sound natural.
Definitly gonna make music with this. Electronic music is gonna change:p
Fuck yeah
Nurse With Wound utilizes creep instruments similar to this engine.
Bring in the deathstep
I just wanna go to the mall and have a mobile version of this and follow people around and play music as I follow them
I can just imagine my neighbors kids playing with this.
Whatever the fuck starts at 2:22 is absolutely unreal,. I was immediately covered in goosebumps and shivering uncontrollably
My dog is scared as fuck of this video
Haha XD
Imagine playing this inside a pentagram at 03:00 am at maximum volume with a badass stereo system
This is amazing! I'd love to read more about how it was constructed and what inspired the various components!
It was constructed for a single purpose as practically as possible under the circumstances and everything had to playable and adjustable. Inspiration came about from what was possible in a very short amount of time! As far as inspiration goes, sound sources that can be manipulated expressively by a 'player' are paramount so that the player has room to explore.
Thanks! It's brilliant. Does its job fantastically well, and is generally just really, really cool.
Robin M apprehensionengine.com/PreOrder/
Imagine producing this sound in an urban cityscape via multiple connections to speakers with the volume dial at its max. Has the potential to be a fun little social experiment to test emotional response when exposed to such an eerily unnatural sound. This instrument is a total breach of conventional ambience and its ingenious in that respect. 👊
I absolutely LOVE your work!!!!!!
Thanks!
Its crazy how much of a vibe this music creates, and how it puts a crystal clear illustration in my head: swampy, back country, lost in the woods. Something is out there, Someone. Or is it? I hear them, I hear something. Its close. Im lost out here, nowhere to go, no civilization for miles around.
Thats what I got out of it, especially the swampy part. Like a bayou. Which, as a Floridian, makes me think of Skunk Ape. So thats what Im going with, a movie where Im lost in the swamp with Skunk Ape slinking around. Terrifying.
The Akira Yamaoka engine...
joking aside, this actually made me really, really want to track down and play a silent hill game...
Can’t wait to see (hear) how they utilize it in The Callisto Protocol.
Pretty awesome! And clever...
Thank you!
M
Every depressed, angry senior citizen with an old house must love this instrument. Those silly kids won't ever come again; might have had severe trauma too.
I used to meme fry's "shut up and take my money" quote with my money clenched hard in my hands... Right now, for once in a blue moon on the internet... All I have to say... *slowly sets neatly stacked crisp hundred dollar bills with a rubber band holding them together on the table* ...Say no more, and accept my currency.
what the fuck
'accept my currency' heh!
apprehensionengine.com/PreOrder/ (For $10,000)
Listening to this with really good headphones and omg.
The Callisto Protocol is supposedly using this machine for the music in the game and if that's the case it may actually be the horrifying game I've been searching for so long.
2:30
When a death laser hits earth and everyone's life ends before the sirens could start up
1:06
When satan hates you so he plays the unholygurdy
3:11-3:30
When you die in an accident involving a bridge crane and alcohol
I find listening to this fascinating, it's so different and otherworldly, somewhat hypnotic almost
This is actually really soothing.
Hippies: Ukulele in the park
Absolute legends:
Great instrument ! It can produce so many different sounds ! I found your video because I'm trying to build something quite similar (and close to Folktek's instruments too). I see a "guitar mic" under the strings, but how do you capture the sounds of the metal rulers ? With piezo microphones ? Would you agree to make a video explaining how it is built ? Thank you very much,
Thibault
Oops, sorry, you already answered my questions !
Thibault Muller Where did they talk about the mics and what is the setup?
I found answers.
th-cam.com/video/lzk-l8Gm0MY/w-d-xo.html&lc=z12xfn5gtxq5v3l2z231dzmxhx22efnfo
> What kind of pick ups are you using here? How are you getting your signal to noise ratio as low as possible? Very good matching of the various tone generators!
Response:
> They're contact piezo's. What was the name? K & L, or K&M or something.
Someone else:
> K&K contact pickup for much of it and a hot tele bridge pickup for the e-bow.
th-cam.com/video/lzk-l8Gm0MY/w-d-xo.html&lc=z12cu3ihkkfsehhtm224zxhypxbygxk4c04
> How much is the sound edited? Do you have contact mics or something that go to an effect unit or your recorder and then you add the echo after wards? I see there's a spring reverb, but this sounds quite digitally clean.
> Also I really don't know much, just asking out of interest.
Response:
> Hi! I didn't edit this at all. Although I think I did add some reverb after the fact. There are 3 contact mics on the soundbox, and also a guitar pickup. Yes, that's a spring reverb with some added digital reverb.
Hi Thibault. I use one multi pad K&K contact pickups. I don't know how many contacts, since I didn't build it. You can check out www.apprehensionengine.com if you'd like to contact the builder Tony Duggan-Smith. Also, there is www.markkorven.com/Apprehension_Engine.html if you want to see some more recent videos.
The new Pink Floyd album sounds great!
THIS is what HORROR sounds like! Music that is unearthly nature or artificially made in real life.
0:47
Sounds Like A Monster From Subnautica
Specifically the crabsquid
th-cam.com/video/EpEQWefFa2w/w-d-xo.html
What you do is you finally old abandoned Mill and you get down in a basement or somewhere where you can hide and put cameras everywhere where you can get video of unexpected victims who come into building and then start playing some of this crazy music and get it on video.
1:17 when you see something hovering moving closer to you
Suddenly I'm no longer as terrified when I hear sound effects like this. I just wonder how they make them, now.