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half-bending toneglissandos up and down.something half-done (cooking analogy half-brewed)doorbraak pitch goes up or downtremoloslooking down descending looking left right and centre pitch confusionstinger for the eye?spirit in unrest (Thank-Thuk Thank-thuh) 5/4 or 6/4tremolos in groups of 5 (PArr-ra-ra-ruh-ra)come from the back and catch (pitch? effect?)destabilisation leading to stabilitybuzzing-hissing-whirring-backisolated third intervalsfizzing outback and forth, the motiondiverging and converginglook at ithelpless confusionwhat really scares isnt really therecoloursred herringsthe ghost definitely is evilleitmotifs (mean danger) - downward melodiesrepetitive motifs + crescendosdissonance atonalitydim and aug intervalsexcess of harmonic overtonesdestabilising glissandosextremely small intervals or extremely large leapsthickly filled textures or sparse instrumentationfast crescendos or slow diminuendospp vs ffextremely fast rhythms against drones or repetitions that seem to stop timeinfluences from spiritual music to make it more sinisterMusically,a glissandos slide upwards or downwards functions as a radical destabilisation of harmonic grounding.As the pitch goes up and up and up,or down and down and down,the cognitive embedding of what is heard gets negated and negated and negated: we are in that key,no,we are in this key,no,this one,et cetera,ad infinitum.The glissandos destabilising effect is caused by a seemingly endless chain of transgressions,crossings over of the boundaries between individual tones and keys.Over the course of music history the boundary crossings of the glissando have often been employed to symbolise other types of transgressionextremely high-pitched or low-pitched melodiesexcess stingers, booming double basses, creeping dronesnon-linearity of timecontinual buildup and consequent release of tensioncycles can get longer or shorteryou can also use motionlessness, repetitive dronesreturn of a returnmusical folding of time depicts transformation.vampyr (watch film)reassured (watch film)