Marrow Fen

horror-tension score & sound kit — D Phrygian · 5/4 at ♩=70 · 100% sampled, zero oscillators ← details
Section · bar
L0 bed L1 lead L2 unease L3 terror
Space play · ←/→ menace · 1–7 sfx · M mute

Sound kit — every hit layered & varied, trigger repeatedly

What you're hearing

A 54-bar horror score in 5/4 — the limping 3+2 of a pole-stroke through black water — performed entirely by sampled instruments (zero oscillators). Form: Intro → A, the mire theme on low bassoon over a contrabass pulse and a dark harp figure → timpani fill → B, "the lull": a false-comfort music-box lullaby high above, celesta echoing two beats behind, the whole low bed gone → harpsichord scatter → A′, the theme up an octave on english horn with a choir shadow two scale degrees below and a harpsichord rattle, darkened by a borrowed E♭ minor → PURSUIT, taiko and melodic toms driving over a bass that climbs a semitone every two bars → coda, the lullaby remembered wrong (detuned, half speed) over a fading D+E♭ cluster → loops to A. Click the timeline to jump. Layers: the menace slider adds stems at the barline — and the frogs sing quieter the higher it goes; when they stop, worry. Stingers duck the score. Press Space to start.