I really like very melodic and tonal ambient music, that is rather stabilized, with the pad being either constant or only slightly changing in tonality. A piece that would rather feel relaxing. However the monotonality creates this completely hair-raising, absolutely unsettling feeling. And the context of the song is able to make the piece even more terrifying. I watched a horror movie, where there was such a pad added into a scene where everybody was fighting for their lives and slowly dying in
fyi, i play this board game with friends called Escape the Dark Castle, and it has a spotify playlist to listen to while youre playing, and its essentially just 45 minutes of this stuff, defo worth checking out :D
Thx. I was once told that putting together motifs and progressions that don’t really “work” makes a piece unsettling. The dissonance creates an almost primal effects that’s uncomfortable. Thought I’d try it out some more.