Now you wouldn’t believe this. Daddy and me made our own CD last week called “The Haunt of the House of Death”. It’s a song about an explorer exploring a house owned by an evil owner who’s half alive and half dead. He has a strange henchman. The explorer tries to escape but he got caught.
I made it by using this really good instrument I made up. It’s used for blowing up an exercise ball but I made it into an instrument. I went down to dad’s studio and I went into the recording room. I played the instrument and I made up all these other sound effects too and dad recorded me. I did all the sound effects in real time. You won’t believe me but it’s really true. I did all of that in one day, no assistance, just one person.
Here are the mp3 files of the music. I also have some illustrations! So take a look at them and have fun!
P.S. Mom just thinks it’s “wonderful and inventive” music.
Track 1
Track 2
Track 3
Track 4
Track 5
CD art and CD cover
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5 responses to “The Haunt of the House of Death!”
Your “Haunt of the House of Death” deserves a super WOW award H.O.P. I like the story and illustrations. Reminded me of “Peter and the Wolf” with my imagining your intrument being the explorer. Am I correct? What about a name for your intrument. Maybe something like a HIBBUP, short for HOP invented ball blowing up player.
Ok h.o.p. i’ll give me my blow by blow impressions.. first i thot this has got to be the scariest thing i ever heard! Like i’m actually inside a haunted house .. pitch black where i can’t see a thing and all these wierd noises like WHAT are they DOING??? and WHAT is going to happen NEXT??? not to mention what is going to happen to ME?!!! all the way through all the tracks. Next run-thru i’m starting to b able to see through the dark what’s going on. There’s a door and it’s moving I can hear it creak. And a snake just saw me I can hear it HISS. All the dragging and pounding makes me think there r beings there and that they’re getting ready for something but what??? Then the scraping and shoveling what is there to shovel in a house?? That was really scarey.
Suddenly it’s over i listen again. This time i try to remember i’m not in a haunted house i’m in a recording studio! That was a shocker coming from pitch black back into bright light even though i still can’t see what’s going on. So now i’m thinking what in ^$# is h.o.p. DOING to his poor dad’s STUDIO?????? and that i hope h.o.p. has the $$ to pay the repairs!!!!
So now you just gotta tell how u did this? unless it’s a secret.. maybe you need a copyright on your new instrument and in that case i won’t beg you to give away clues but i have to say i’m dying to see it. After hearing all the tracks a third time I’m with your mom i love it. By now i’m relaxed and enjoying a new kind of rhythm or something ..even makes nice background.
Don’t get me wrong tho it’s still p.d.s. pretty durn scarey I think it should be used in your town’s next Haunted House in October on Halloween what do you think?
Cosmos, I didn’t break anything! The way I did it is by finding a metal music stand and scraping my finger across it. My fingernails aren’t that sharp but they sounded sharp. I also used my new musical instrument I made. It can sound pretty but it can also sound scary. I also did stuff with my jacket. I scraped across it. The only problem I had was I didn’t have any haunted piano sounds. And I walked. It was meant to sound like the owner of the house walking toward the guy.
Gdad, thank you very much! I have more pictures to put up and I started working on them but then it was my bedtime and I fell asleep. I’ll take a picture of my musical instrument soon and put it up. I’m also going to do a video for my CD!
I figured you weren’t breaking anything I was having fun. But it sure sounded like it LOL. Good news u’re going to finally reveal this new instrument also a new video. This is good work h.o.p. 🙂