Creepy Sounds - Where do they come from?

[DZComposer]

How about a creepy sounds thread?

But with a bit of a twist: Your example must show how the sound is made. None of these "Listen to this creepy sound I don't know what it is" videos.

Cymbal + Timpani + Bow = Creepy as FUCK sound!

Modern timpani have a tuning pedal that changes the pitch of the drum. If you move this pedal while the drum is making sound, you can get a bendy effect.

Cymbals, like all percussion instruments, vibrate when struck (or bowed). Placing the cymbal on the head of a timpani drum will cause the cymbal's vibration to transfer to the drum head and then reverberate through the drum as if the head had been struck. Add in the movement of the timpani's tuning pedal (which alters the frequency of the drum head's vibration) and you get this creepy-ass sound.

[Arashikage]

That's very similar to something I saw on Youtube a while ago.

 

There's this thing called the Waterphone, and it does something similar, but using what looks like two pie pans welded together with a tube sticking out of it, and metal rods of differing lengths all around the base.  The base is filled with a small amount of water, just enough to get a different sound by tilting it in a different manner, and the metal rods produce different sounds when struck with a mallet.

 

 

You can see the Hydrophone there.

[Redeemer]

I don't have a video of it, but the terrifying roar that Godzilla gives out in the original film was made by running a leather glove down the strings of a chello.

[Vy'drach]

OH! Finally, been trying to find this damned video for hours for you guys, had to scour the depths of the internet, but here, enjoy. This one is getting moved to the front of the pack, but was the last I found.

 

 

I don't have a video of it being made but I do know the supposed source, the Joker's theme in The Dark Knight is based on the sound a razor makes on piano wire:

 

 

Also, frozen over bodies of water make weird ass sounds:

 

 

Can't find the longer version of this:

 

 

While you can't see what exactly is causing either of those, the former is there's still currents under the ice and thermal whatsits and wind shifting the ice causing it to bend and crack on itself, and for the latter, when the rock hits it sends sound vibrations through the ice, air, and water at different speeds so you're getting a weird jumble of sound frequencies simultaneously.

[Arashikage]

I don't have a video of it, but the terrifying roar that Godzilla gives out in the original film was made by running a leather glove down the strings of a chello.

 

This one isn't a rubber glove, but it's close

 

[Redeemer]

This one isn't a rubber glove, but it's close

 

 

Actually, they seem to be doing it wrong anyway. When they made the sound, they used a leather glove and ran it vertically down the strings, not horizontally.

[Patch93]

 

Sounds like a friggin factory, not what I would expect from the sea.

[InfinitySquared]

We had a bowed vibes part in our marching band show this year. Pain in the ass to time right, but it's a very ethereal sound. Very similar to rubbing your finger on a crystal glass, or maybe a flute.

 

Wheelharp, nuff said.

 

Speaking of out-of-tuneness, wolf-intervals sound pretty damn strange. Listen to the last chord here:

 

On a non-musical note (rimshot), the sounds from that comet? Definitely unlike anything I've ever heard before.

 

I live just behind some woods, so I hear this damn sound every night at this time of year.

[DZComposer]

I swear, half of the sounds you hear on "Finding Bigfoot" sound A LOT like Fox screams. Or Bobcat screams. They make a hell of a scream, too.

[LoneWolf]

These sounds man

 

 

Deep space sounds vastly different from near space, way more eerie and unsettling. I love it.

 

http://bcove.me/1qu1w2um

 

What you'd hear if you tuned an shielded radio on in space close to orbit.

 

Space is scary as fuck

[InfinitySquared]

I swear, half of the sounds you hear on "Finding Bigfoot" sound A LOT like Fox screams. Or Bobcat screams. They make a hell of a scream, too.

I thought it was someone getting attacked the first time I heard it. Then again, not too many have heard what fox screams sound like, so you can easily get away with calling it whatever the hell you want