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Description
Simply put, the Apprehension Engine is a musical instrument purpose built to create sounds for horror films.
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Great Big Story
Sounds of the Nightmare Machine
Sounds of the Nightmare Machine
Great Big Story
Horror Musical Instrument - The Apprehension Engine
INDIE FILM & MUSIC
The Apprehension Engine live in a Cemetery
INDIE FILM & MUSIC
The Apprehension Engine - Horror sounds for 2019
INDIE FILM & MUSIC
Mark Korven - Improvisation on the Apprehension Engine
Milan Records USA
Horror Gurdy & The Apprehension Engine
INDIE FILM & MUSIC
Mark Korven presents the Apprehension Engine / Mark Korven présente son le Apprehension Engine
POP Montreal
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Adding multiple springs inside for natural reverb can increase buzzing; consider using fewer springs for clarity.
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User experience
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Users frequently mix playing styles, using bows and drumsticks, often enhanced with effects pedals like distortion and loopers for added expressiveness.
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Text from the revolvermag: " The Nine Inch Nails leader steps into the hallway and crouches down to show off the Apprehension Engine, an unruly, all-angles nightmare simulator co-created by Mark Korven, composer of the score for the claustrophobic arthouse-horror film The Lighthouse — retail price, $10,000. The wooden monstrosity looks like H.P. Lovecraft designed a steampunk's double-necked guitar. Reznor puts on his glasses and shows off its various cranks, rulers, springs, strings and coils.
"You can bow these things." Boiiiiiing. "There's no right or wrong way to use it." Slapapapapapap. Eeeeeeeee. "And they tell you when you get it, it really requires you learning how to play it and figure it out. It pissed us off 'cause when we got it ... it sounds shitty. I'm not instantly good at it."
" The Apprehension Engine lives in Reznor's new studio space, its surfaces lined with various noisy electronic doodads that you brush or bow or touch or chomp with banana clips. Though there's no shortage of traditional synthesizers, Reznor and longtime musical co-conspirator Atticus Ross often use bespoke, small-run noisemakers, glitchers and squawkers from boutique companies and independent designers. There's the "fairly unplayable" Swarmatron (used to help create their score to 2010's The Social Network), the weed-like Luminist Garden (used for rhythms on 2014's Gone Girl) and the teeny touchpads of the Organismic Synthesizer from Moscow's SOMA Laboratory (it didn't come with a manual, so Reznor pulls out printouts of text messages from the lab's founder)."
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