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Try watching the scariest movie you can think of in low volume. Do you still get scared?

If not, that’s probably because sound plays a major part in creating suspense that keeps the audience on their toes.

Prominent music composer Aghi Narottama went all the way to locking himself in his studio at midnight and turning the lights off whilst creating music for Joko Anwar’s 2017 award-winning film Satan’s Slave (Pengabdi Setan) until he himself got scared to make sure the job was done.

“It’s exciting when it comes to horror, because with horror movies, there’s no music to it yet when the film is handed to us.

It’s our job to make the film scary, and that’s a fun process — to deliver a story, so when people watch, they get the experience they are looking for. If it’s meant to be scary, it has to sound scary. If it’s meant to be heroic, then it has to sound heroic,” explained Aghi.

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