What's The Deal With That........
What's the deal with that pipe shaft music?
shareThe erie music when Newman is stepping across the shaft? Well...if there was no such thing as gravity, there would be no need for that music in that scene.
shareThat was music (as in, John Williams' score)? I'd always assumed it was sound effects, like it was supposed to be the pipes groaning, or distant explosions echoing through the tower.
shareYes, green_dog is right. This was not music. They were sound effects...but carefully crafted sound effects, designed to sound metallic, hollow and to give a sense of eeriness, peril and vertigo. I thought they were very effective -- sound effects that almost sounded like music, served the same dramatic purpose, but were not music.
shareI believe those sound effects were created by overdriving and compressing John Williams's Yamaha YC-30 combo organ with some electric guitar feedback as well maybe. Similar sound effects would occur in many of John Williams's science fiction scores. For example a quieter version of this sound effect occurs in the opening credits of E.T (The Extra-Terrestrial) as well as the scene were Elliott looks for E.T in the corn field near the start.
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