{"id":99,"date":"2008-02-08T23:08:14","date_gmt":"2008-02-09T04:08:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scripts.mit.edu\/~zong\/wpress\/?p=99"},"modified":"2008-02-09T17:01:45","modified_gmt":"2008-02-09T22:01:45","slug":"scary-sound-effect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.yhuang.org\/?p=99","title":{"rendered":"scary sound effect"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What exactly makes &#8220;scary&#8221; sound effects &#8220;scary&#8221;? By that I mean, what characteristics do they possess? A typical one is a high pitched, reverberated dissonant chord played on strings in certain films. Dissonance is a given, being in opposition to consonance that is often characterized as &#8220;pleasing.&#8221; But not all dissonant sounds are scary. Most are merely unpleasant, and one may even learn to enjoy them. It isn&#8217;t mental association, either, since certain sounds are intrinsically &#8220;scary,&#8221; without having been heard before. So what is it?<\/p>\n<p>My best guess is, these sounds may recall the vocalization of some kind of open-range nocturnal predator of humankind&#8217;s ancestor, something one is innately equipped to recognize and fear.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What exactly makes &#8220;scary&#8221; sound effects &#8220;scary&#8221;? By that I mean, what characteristics do they possess? A typical one is a high pitched, reverberated dissonant chord played on strings in certain films. Dissonance is a given, being in opposition to consonance that is often characterized as &#8220;pleasing.&#8221; But not all dissonant sounds are scary. Most [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[812,1354,1356,1358,1360,1352,1357,1359,1353,1355],"class_list":["post-99","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-association","tag-best-guess","tag-consonance","tag-dissonant","tag-humankind","tag-nocturnal-predator","tag-opposition","tag-pleasing","tag-scary-sound-effects","tag-vocalization"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.yhuang.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.yhuang.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.yhuang.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.yhuang.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.yhuang.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=99"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.yhuang.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.yhuang.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=99"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.yhuang.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=99"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.yhuang.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=99"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}