half-bending tone

glissandos up and down.

something half-done (cooking analogy half-brewed)
doorbraak pitch goes up or down
tremolos
looking down descending looking left right and centre pitch confusion
stinger for the eye?
spirit in unrest (Thank-Thuk Thank-thuh) 5/4 or 6/4
tremolos in groups of 5 (PArr-ra-ra-ruh-ra)
come from the back and catch (pitch? effect?)
destabilisation leading to stability
buzzing-hissing-whirring-back
isolated third intervals
fizzing out
back and forth, the motion
diverging and converging
look at it
helpless confusion
what really scares isnt really there
colours
red herrings

the ghost definitely is evil

leitmotifs (mean danger) - downward melodies
repetitive motifs + crescendos
dissonance atonality
dim and aug intervals
excess of harmonic overtones
destabilising glissandos
extremely small intervals or extremely large leaps
thickly filled textures or sparse instrumentation
fast crescendos or slow diminuendos
pp vs ff
extremely fast rhythms against drones or repetitions that seem to stop time
influences from spiritual music to make it more sinister
Musically,a glissandos slide upwards or downwards functions as a radical
destabilisation of harmonic grounding.As the pitch goes up and up and up,or down
and down and down,the cognitive embedding of what is heard gets negated and
negated and negated: we are in that key,no,we are in this key,no,this one,et
cetera,ad infinitum.The glissandos destabilising effect is caused by a seemingly
endless chain of transgressions,crossings over of the boundaries between individual
tones and keys.Over the course of music history the boundary crossings of the
glissando have often been employed to symbolise other types of transgression
extremely high-pitched or low-pitched melodies
excess stingers, booming double basses, creeping drones
non-linearity of time
continual buildup and consequent release of tension
cycles can get longer or shorter

you can also use motionlessness, repetitive drones

return of a return
musical folding of time depicts transformation.

vampyr (watch film)

reassured (watch film)