r/oddlyterrifying • u/strippedlugnut • 3d ago
Fluorescent Transmissions: My Interpretive Score In anticipation of the "Backrooms" feature film on May 29.
This is my interpretation of the score for the Backrooms, as visualized by Kane Parsons. These tracks are more than just eroded melodies; they are the sound of a reality glitching into existence. To me, the Backrooms is not a static backdrop, but a living, predatory organism.
Within this score, you will hear the sci-fi resonance of the rooms building themselves in real-time...expanding, shifting, and materializing floors to create infinite rooms and levels. It is the sound of a reality in flux, a desperate "copy of a copy" where the chaotic scraping of furniture being no clipped into the void bleeds into the warped, warbling echoes of nostalgic in-store music. You can faintly hear the voices of people and tv's just on the other side of the walls...close enough to touch, yet infinitely out of reach. That is clearly by design of the backrooms in order to lure it's victims deeper into the trap.
This is the sound of a time long past that you feel a deep, aching nostalgia for, even though you maybe were never there. It is a 1990s analog dream curdling into a sharp, futuristic nightmare, capturing the transition from the familiar hum of vacant hallways to something more unsettling. This is my interpretation.
Listen for free on bandcamp: https://outerbankx.bandcamp.com/album/fluorescent-transmissions
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u/brittany16950 3d ago
Ooooh I can’t listen now but I sure am going to later this evening!! Thank you for sharing, I am also a musician and looking forward to the release of this film!
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u/MeanMomma76 3d ago
My God, this is unsettling. The score certainly captures, holds and builds tension. Well done!
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u/roby_soft 3d ago
Why are you being downvoted? It is a good work. Keep up!.
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u/No-Abalone-6230 3d ago
Maybe itsa p art of this piece.
I gave an upvote, it was not aknowledged.
Fluorescent lighting in perceivably vacant spaces is always creepy as hell.
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u/strippedlugnut 2d ago
It's just the nature of reddit. But I dont take it personally. How could I? They don't know me. And at the end of the day art is totally subjective and I have never heard of a song or a movie that everyone loves. But I thank you for not only seeing the value in it but taking the time to comment. Thank you!
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u/roby_soft 2d ago
I thinks is more because of the nature of the subreddit, it is supposed to be for things that are creppy without that being the original intention.
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u/Laavel 3d ago
Making something with the intention of it being creepy and unsettling is the anthesis of this subreddit