Mark Korven - Improvisation on the Apprehension Engine

Take a listen to Mark Korven, composer of the sinister scores to The Witch and The Lighthouse, perform an improvisational piece on his signature apprehension engine.
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[@gordonbenzin3000]

I really enjoyed that part of composition where the ad just kicked in and destroyed my whole experience

[@khajiitimanus7432]

I read this comment and that exact thing happens to me.

[@NimbleQ]

“AAAAHHHH JEFF GOLDBLUM!!!”

[@asshoIe94]

time stamp?

[@johnnycastellanetta7183]

Yeah. Nothing ruins the rabbit holes you can dive into around here quite like the ads. Highlight of a comedy special? Ad. About to score a touchdown? Ad. Surprise barrage in a boxing match? Ad. Entrancing audio experience? Ad. Best guitar solo you've ever hear? Ad. I understand they exist so they can make money but come on, damn it...

[@Bambuzzsprosse]

Why don't you install a freaking ad block already? Crying because of something that can be fixed in 20 seconds.

[@johnnycastellanetta7183]

I played this on a loop through a PA system pointed out my windows during trick or treat time last year, and not one piece of candy was taken out of the bowl on the porch.

[@tojorozombie]

Outstanding!🤘🎃

[@LordHorror1970]

This is disturbing at its best. So many ambient soundscapes contain nothing but looped hisses and distorted tones, but this has soul and character and teeth. This will fill my head with the most wonderful images whilst being dangerously creative. Thank you. Please, please provide us with more and a massive CD gate-fold with three discs of the same. And now, at eleven minutes in, my cat hates me.

[@Channel.1061]

Am I the only one who thinks this sound beautiful?

[@DungeonMaster435]

Beauty and horror are strange bedfellows

[@thebigshep]

If they ever do a proper adaptation of Blood Meridian, Mark needs to do the soundtrack.

[@xxHouseInMotionxx]

oh shit yes!!! good call...

[@TechnicJunglist]

Apparently, it's out of developmental hell finally.

[@niconpvc1292]

If i should ever do a horrormovie i would hire Mark. Love his work

[@eigengrau7698]

First minute: It's not that creepy, i can use this to sleep 2:31 : HOLY SH-

[@TheMayanGuy]

That's literally what just happened to me x) I've quit the video and I'm never gonna listen to that thing ever again (at least not without checking if no one else is in my house and with a light on)

[@inc06nito]

Same 😂

[@theskyischill]

The best most delightful part! Once you get over the shock, that is.

[@Elchamuc020]

First time? Well enjoy your stay

[@youngjason218]

Hands down the coolest instrument on the planet

[@spider431461]

6:58 I never thought, that lollipop can be used to create so scary sounds.

[@kpdelaney6460]

I think it’s a bouncy ball on a spit, but yeah definitely looks a lot more playful than it sounds

[@sunwoodtul8233]

Theyre quite expensive btw "proper use" is for self resonating large gongs these are called flumi maybe not the right spelling​@kpdelaney6460

[@philipmateo3816]

⁠@@sunwoodtul8233no it’s a friction mallet and they’re not that expensive

[@igoriouspitchpuckington1594]

Okay when the demon starts laughing at 6:58 it was a bit much for me

[@KEHA14]

That's amazing! He can make that and it's so clearly something evil laughing

[@alias_noah]

This is a total masterpiece in my opinion! The part at minute three is especially impressive

[@JOEHHxFMJ]

That thing is incredible. So adaptable to a various kind of images for a movie but also deeply weird and strange

[@charliegalliher]

I'd love to play this for my neighbors at 3:00AM

[@idk_naam]

I probably shouldn’t fall asleep while listening to this…😅 but it’s lowkey beautiful and kinda unsettling 😰

[@khajiitimanus7432]

Mark Korven used the Apprehension Engine! It was extremely effective! Khajiiti Manus is now utterly spooked!

[@miinyoo]

My brain exploded. The video was an accompaniment to the scary emotional sound design experience but that's okay. Late a days, you often have to question the authenticity of everything. The range of emotion and storytelling with sound is what makes dark media cool. There is love in darkness. It's trying to have a voice in the end through whatever trials it has to go through. That's what makes dark narratives so compelling and I think this compilation exemplified all of the variety of the dark. It takes an editor, producer, director to pull it out of the dark into the other where a different set of music applies. Great work.

[@pianojay5146]

I'm amazed by the fact that this singular instrument can cast diverse sounds. I want to play with this one!!!

[@Dr.Tinkerpaw]

That and a few loop pedals.

[@Blackchain119]

I am so using this in my D&D games.

[@NoName-sv7pp]

My mutant infested Metro just got way scarier. Not only from my plan to use this track, but all the nasties it inspired when I closed my eyes and listened at 4:30 AM.

[@nicolesrosenzweig1776]

Brilliantly beautiful creepiness! Love it🖤

[@diegosoto2175]

Simply genius

[@zenbabaloo1931]

Super mellow and melodious stuff if your monster enough.

[@Crazymen1235]

ഇത് ഞങൾ മലയാളികളുടെ അഹങ്കാരം ആയി കൊണ്ട് നടക്കുന്ന Sushin ശ്യാം 3 കൊല്ലം മുന്നേ കണ്ടുപിടിച്ച music 😍

[@tomooms1167]

You're on the ocean floor in a one-man submarine suit looking for evidence of a downed 'object'. Your comm system goes haywire, producing these sounds. How fast can you make it to the submersible? Does it matter?

[@vonhule]

Beautiful.

[@drpibisback7680]

2:32 is just a dead-on recreation of the ticking sound from Slipknot's Scissors.

[@BollywoodBrass22]

This is Fabulous and so inspiring. I’m going to build my own this year! Thanks for posting.

[@13opacus]

Visionary!!!

[@Yee.Naaldlooshii]

this is amazing. completely transfixed

[@yoshitsuguisobe6284]

wonderful!

[@DomZeal]

Beautiful and creative.

[@cappedminer369]

incredible !

[@creativeheadroom]

Incredible :)

[@iTautra]

Fantastic

[@elliotleeshur5145]

Boy got that sheet looping! You nasty good.

[@alb0-1]

Outstanding!

[@BS-lk3jg]

this is something else wow

[@lostboy1719]

Man you should make a sample pack of noises i would buy 100%

[@jorgehodgson6553]

La tensión que produce al escucharlo es increible

[@seanpurdy8230]

Have had this man's name written down on the back of my screenplay's cover page for two years now. Will certainly find a way to contact you some day

[@charliegalliher]

I gotta get me one of these.

[@isaacsoto_music]

what a fucking genius

[@byroncaval500]

How it gets that huge reverb ??? And delays ??????

[@cankancan8250]

Super..

[@philipmateo3816]

11:03 “I may not live through the crash, but neither will you”

[@bnk57]

Amazing.

[@rooftopsignals7313]

Terrifyingly gorgeous. Thank you

[@EL-Luiso85]

pure sound!.natural!!...cant duplicate that on any "AI" soft....

[@dmitrishostakovich1447]

Except that there are electric components to it that you can see in the video?

[@kevinnikolass]

amazing

[@Josh-ky8ei]

Jesus Christ this is epic

[@JS-tr9oc]

I'd love to hear what Akira Yamaoka would do with this

[@rulexisonline]

He did well playing my inner demon

[@manuelruizramirez4526]

yo por suerte estoy acostumbrado a escuchar de todo y por eso he podido aguantar hasta el final pero se que esto no lo puede soportar cualquiera

[@45dable]

The soundtracks this man has done are so good, for example, the only thing good in Resident Evil: Welcome to Racoon City it was the ost composed by Korven.

[@lestupidunicorn]

when you hear u got 12 minutes left to live

[@byroncaval500]

Please explain me … How do the sound gets such a huge reverb and delays ????

[@jonathanbridge1623]

piezo pick ups under the sound boards

[@estebanmedrano4160]

how to contact for copyrgit claim? I´m a film student and i´d love to use a little bit in ashort film.

[@fernandofiuza4863]

Let me know if you figure out, I would like to do the same

[@sebeplizenginlesme8293]

let me know also please guys!@@fernandofiuza4863

[@GENCOMAN]

This is so relaxing if you exclude punching parts

[@nickepic1863]

7:00 this shit is scary 😨

[@LuigiCotocea]

2:31 Jumpscare🤣

[@Matt198d]

This is amazing, where can you buy an apprehension engine?

[@Trtlman]

How do you make the sound keep looping? I assume it's recorded on something.

[@benpowell5682]

He uses a loop pedal.

[@conanladler3472]

I need this instrument for doom metal

[@manuelruizramirez4526]

No me da miedo casi ninguna musica pero este me ha dado algo ,de miedo lo que significa que esto es aterrador a nivel estratosferico

[@igoriouspitchpuckington1594]

I wonder what would happen if he played this for whales/dolphins

[@NoName-sv7pp]

Ever thrown a flashbang into a room of epileptics? I imagine it like that.

[@RWSCOTT]

God yessss

[@jessemitchell6089]

To them: Horror movie To me: Whale/Cody’s Mom

[@Josh-ky8ei]

Give it me give me nightmares

[@n4rCo5y5]

666 likes, rather fitting.

[@Fairysad2002]

🖤🐐

[@sunwoodtul8233]

Can anyone magify those sentence strips on the left side🔎🤔🔍

[@Music3308-i2o]

👽👽👽👽👽👽🚀

[@tolvfen]

Does this fits best, to a story aboute ghosts zombies and witchcraft,,, not Xenomorph:s and cosmic horror at spaceships?

[@willfromthenorth2604]

It could work for cosmic horror and space horror

[@alexandermathar7780]

Chapter 3 could very well be Stockhausen!!

[@Philomats]

Ghostly sounds from the Triassic era.

[@fersamaniego58]

Quiero tomar lsd y tocar este instrumento

[@unaisfm361]

May be sushin sham will apply this instrument on manjummal boys

[@thomasdaywalt7735]

tang

[@MsPedross]

🔫😦

[@Dr.Tinkerpaw]

The last bit reminds me of Jimmy Page's Lucifer Rising.

[@TechnicJunglist]

Lovecraftian metal.

[@napoleonsolo5929]

This sounds a lot like Jimmy Page's 'Lucifer Rising' soundtrack at the beginning.

[@SynesterSeahawk]

This sounds beautiful…until you turn off the lights.

[@onesownthoughts]

1st, LOSE THE ADS; 2nd, There's nothing new here for people who pay attention to experimental musical instruments (modified hurdy-gurdy, spring to be plucked or banged, tines to be bowed, Ebow, rubber ball on stick for rubbing) but I have to give credit to Korven for doing an excellent job of milking these techniques for maximum effect. People unfamiliar with other instrument inventors might consider checking out the work of Neil Feather or Tom Nunn or Hal Rammel. Check out the 2 collections published by ellipsis arts: "Gravikords, Whirlies, & Pyrophones" & "Orbitones, Spoon Harps, & Bellowphones". Reading as many issues of "Experimental Musical Instruments" as you can lay your hands on would also be illuminating.

[@cgtarunktadka2487]

भारत माता की जय मोदी sir से बात करता हूं ऐसे कलाकार इंडिया में होना चाहिए मै अभी जाकर ट्रंप से बात करता हूं

[@unciervoenciervado]

LEAVE ME ALONE!!! This is what I sound playing any instrument. Sounds like shit. This is the type of shit my neighbour would buy. Disturbing, will not make a happy song. I want to break it. MY WIFE MAKES SCARIER SOUNDS IN (...)

[@SennacheribBaal]

Hey! Do you or anyone else in this comment know where I can find more music like this! I love this!