Continuing our creepy music theme, this week’s selection begins with a disquieting ambient passage and transitions into a frenetic orchestral climax. The music makes use of the octatonic scale, which comes from an alternation of half and whole steps. This scale has been scientifically proven in special music labs to be particularly scary.

(Hat tip to horror-meister Mark Pavia for suggesting the idea of scary music through Halloween.)

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	Confronting the Beast

As the title implies, this weeks’s selection is a dark and ambient musical atmosphere. Pulsing brass in their lowest register and woodwind trills help usher in the creepiness.

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	Things in the Dark

Another orchestral cue from Against Time, this one conveying the exhilaration of invention with a touch of mad-scientist eccentricity.

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	Genius at Work

A tender and somewhat wistful orchestral cue from the film Against Time. I had the enjoyable experience of writing this to accompany sensitive performances from Craig T. Nelson and Ean Mering.

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	After the Game

This week’s musical selection is a quirky orchestral two-step, featuring a solo woodwinds and that most celebrated of melodic instruments, the tuba.

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	Sneak Away

This is one of a series of orchestral cues I wrote for an interactive computer adventure called The Penguin Who Wouldn’t Swim. As the project title suggests, the score has a colorful once-upon-a-time sort of flavoring to it. This particular cue leans towards the action/adventure side of things, though gentler motifs for individual characters do crop up periodically as well.

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	The Berg Breaks

Enough with the orchestra. I am frequently told; What we really want to know is: can you play the kazoo? As this week’s cue demonstrates, the incontrovertible answer to that question is no. Nevertheless, I hope you enjoy this theme for a 2006 video by the comedic duo The Stagebenders.

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	Stage Bending