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Welcome to Stuff to Blow Your Mind from How StuffWorks.com.

Hey, welcome to Stuff to Blow Your Mind. My name is Robert Lamb.

And I'm Julie Douglas.

And since this is the Halloween season, and we're talking about creepy, uncanny, scary, frightening, sonic experiences,

let's kick this episode off with just a little bit of the uncanny from the weirding module.

Yeah. little bit of the uncanny from this weirding module.

Yes, yeah, just real quick.

The weirding module, this is a solo project from musician Christopher Gladwin.

Some of you may know him is one half of Team Doiobi.

And a very accomplished musician has hands in a number of different projects.

But this one is all about the uncanny, about at times the frightening, the unsettling.

This particular track was titled, Chapter 1, Abysmal Cthedrals Arise from Malfourius Icor from Summless Regions.

Right there, that gives you a clue.

Yeah, it gives you a clue.

And if you recognize the tune, and that's because he's utilizing Symphony Fantastique from Hector Berlioz. And you may also recognize it because Wendy Carlos used it in the theme

to The Shining.

Ah, so what we are introducing to you guys today is this idea that a scary movie could

perhaps be less scary or not even scary without the sort of soundtrack that goes along with

it really amping up our experiences while we're watching something on the screen.

And when you listen to something like the Weirding module, you can already start to sense that dis-ease, that sort of decentering, that that music makes you feel with some of the chords and some of the ways that it's arranged.

Yeah, so it raises the question, and this is the question we're going to explore in this episode.

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