“It’s a question of keeping it unpredictable.”His design features a haunted house’s worth of sounds, including samples of vampire films, loops of Ms. Jarcho screaming and even a demonic-sounding President Trump. Mr. Williams said that he and Ms. Jarcho, who are frequent collaborators, did some “really fantastic homework” to come up with a macabre menu of sonic references. PhotoThe Woods and the ’80sHere Mr. Williams aimed for a John Carpenter-like, ’80s synthesizer sound but with a less “commercial and comforting” edge. Mr. Williams stretched out the utterance and combined it with vocalizations of a howler monkey and a pig. “It has these running notes that go up and up,” Mr. Williams said.

Source: New York Times March 26, 2017 19:18 UTC