In this fall-themed episode, the Skyros Quartet explores strange and occult music. In the history lesson, Sarah and Brandon discuss scary music and how composers used innovative techniques to portray these characters. Next, Willie introduces extended techniques, strange methods of playing an instrument to produce sounds that it is not normally intended to make, like creepy noises and otherworldly timbres. Our guest interview  features special and sinister guests from the Guild of Supernatural Composers in a roundtable discussion. And finally, Skyros shares a chat about their favorite examples of movie music and its expressive role in visual storytelling.

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