Cue of the Week: “Nightmare”

Music can sometimes cross the threshold into sound design, its effect coming less from melody and more from the impact of raw sonic timbre. In these cases I let the intellectual side of the creative process take a breather, and hand the reins to intuition and association.

This dream-sequence cue from Secrets Beneath the Floorboards isn’t something you’re going to hum afterwards (unless you have truly complex vocal abilities), but may convey the scene’s unsettling, jarring atmosphere.