Type
Genre
Keywords
- Airy
- Ambient
- Awards
- Beautiful
- Bombastic
- Bright
- Brooding
- Brutal
- Building
- Calm
- Cavernous
- Celebratory
- Ceremonial
- Cinematic
- Creepy
- Dark
- Descending
- Dissonant
- Driving
- Electronic
- Emotional
- Epic
- Ethnic
- Evil
- Family
- Frightening
- Fun
- Futuristic
- Glitchy
- Gothic
- Gradual
- Heavy
- Heroic
- Hybrid
- Important
- Inspirational
- Inspiring
- Intense
- Intro
- Introspective
- Investigation
- Machinery
- Magical
- Magnificent
- Mechanical
- Military
- Minimal
- Montage
- Mysterious
- Ominous
- Orchestral
- Outro
- Period
- Pulsing
- Relentless
- Retro
- Reverse
- Rock
- Romantic
- Sad
- Seductive
- Serious
- Shrill
- Solo Instrument
- Sophisticated
- Spy
- Stab
- Stabs
- Swagger
- Swashbuckling
- Sweeping
- Tech
- Tension
- Time
- Tribal
- Triumphant
- Urban
- Urgent
- Visceral
- War
- Western
- Whimsical
- Wonder
Sound Design subgenre
Sound Design keywords
- Accelerating
- Aggressive
- Bending
- Buzzing
- Cough
- Cracking
- Crash
- Crunch
- Deep
- Drum
- Electrical
- Engine
- Flutter
- Flyby
- Glassy
- Grinding
- Guitars
- Highlights
- Hiss
- Hollow
- Human
- Icy
- Kiss
- Laugh
- Long
- Low
- Modulated
- Muted
- Neutral
- Organic
- Panning
- Positive
- Rattle
- Ringout
- Rumble
- Sci-Fi
- Scrape
- Short
- Slam
- Slice
- Sporadic
- Strike
- Strike Long
- Suckback
- Sucking
- Swish
- Swoosh
- Thud
- Thunder
- Tonal
- Transmission
- Vibrato
- Vocal
- Whip
- Whirring
- Whoosh
- Wobbly
- Zap
- Zapping
Elements
- Alarm
- Anvil
- Bell
- Boom
- Breath
- Buzz
- Chains
- Clang
- Clanking
- Click
- Creaking
- Crunching
- Distortion
- Fluttering
- Glass
- Growl
- Growling
- Gun
- Plucked
- Powerdown
- Pulse
- Rise
- Roll
- Scream
- Slicing
- Sliding
- Static
- Swell
- Swooshes
- Ticking
Instrumentation
8 tracks
Sort
A Measure of Darkness
- Description
- Minimal strings sway over a dark boom as the evil builds; menacing cello and tremolo strings layer in over a deadly synth pad, building the anxiety with pounding drums, dissonant violin ostinatos and shrill FX.
- Released
- 2018-10-30
- Composer(s)
- Album
- A Measure of Darkness
- Description
- Minimal, low piano and cello set a mysterious, tense intro; an emotional motif gives us a somber moment of calm contemplation until the full orchestra comes in with bold, ascending brass for a lush, dramatic and sweeping build.
- Released
- 2018-10-30
- Composer(s)
- Album
- A Measure of Darkness
Piano Premonitions: Parallels
- Description
- Calm and contemplative piano and strings; builds to driving, serious middle and outro. Romance, Period Drama, Investigation
- Released
- 2017-09-27
- Composer(s)
- Album
- Piano Premonitions: Parallels
- Description
- Piano pings, mysterious, minimal, strings, investigation, serious, pulsing synth percussion, builds to swelling and emotional climax, sad, beautiful, dramatic
- Released
- 2017-09-27
- Composer(s)
- Album
- Piano Premonitions: Parallels
Decimus
- Description
- Mysterious, dark piano, ticking, ominous and suspenseful low droning cello, ethnic, plaintive violin solo, mournful, gradually swelling strings and choir, slow and brooding, gradually building to a sweeping, epic and magnificent back end
- Released
- 2015-10-08
- Composer(s)
- Album
- Decimus
The Platinum Series lV: Labyrinth
- Description
- Emotional strings; Fantasy adventure; Driving drums; Dark, epic, heroic, orchestral, choral theme building to huge back end; Mysterious intro; Anticipatory, driving, foreboding; Epic, sweeping, beautiful, positive; Inspiring, historical
- Released
- 2010-06-18
- Composer(s)
- Album
- The Platinum Series lV: Labyrinth
