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We’ve known since May that Syfy was circling an adaptation of George R.R. Martin’s 1980 scifi horror novella Nightflyers—and now comes word that the project is.

The Uncanny Sound Illusion That Creates Suspense in Christopher Nolan's Movies. Ever notice how Christopher Nolan’s movies (Interstellar, Inception, The Prestige) feel like an anxiety attack? Well, maybe that’s overstating things a bit.

But the director does have a knack for creating an unnerving degree of tension. Turns out he’s using a little bit of musical magic to do it.

The magic is actually a science- based audio illusion called a Shepard tone. Named after psychologist Roger Shepard, a pioneer in our understanding of spatial relation, the effect sounds like an infinitely ascending or descending scale. The tones are constantly moving upwards or downwards, but they never seem to reach a pinnacle or nadir. This is accomplished by stacking scales on top of each other—typically one treble scale, one midrange, and one bass—with an octave in between, then playing them in a continuous loop. A Shepard tone is sometimes referred to as the barber pole of sound. You can even see the similarity, when you hear it and look at the spectrum view of a Shepard tone. Don’t listen to this too long, or you might lose your mind: Anyways, Christopher Nolan just loves this.

With longtime collaborator Hans Zimmer, the acclaimed director has used a Shepard tone in almost every one of his films in the last decade. He even writes his scripts to match the effect.

In a recent interview, Nolan explained how he used Shepard tones in his newest film, Dunkirk: The screenplay had been written according to musical principals. There’s an audio illusion, if you will, in music called a “Shepard tone” and with my composer David Julyan on “The Prestige” we explored that and based a lot of the score around that. And it’s an illusion where there’s a continuing ascension of tone. It’s a corkscrew effect. It’s always going up and up and up but it never goes outside of its range. And I wrote the script according to that principle. I interwove the three timelines in such a way that there’s a continual feeling of intensity.

Increasing intensity. So I wanted to build the music on similar mathematical principals.

Knowing this, you gain a deeper understanding of films like Interstellar, Inception, and The Prestige. It also explains why these films seem somehow inconclusive. Whole Eight Crazy Nights Cartoon Online.

A Shepard’s tone creates a conflict that can’t be resolved, just like Nolan’s plots.[Digg, Business Insider].

It's Looking Very Good for Syfy's Adaptation of George R. R. Martin's Scifi Horror Tale Nightflyers. We’ve known since May that Syfy was circling an adaptation of George R. R. Martin’s 1. 98. Nightflyers—and now comes word that the project is moving forward at a rapid pace.

Multiple sources are reporting that a straight- to- series order is very close to being announced. Both Deadline and The Hollywood Reporter shared the news that Nightflyers—an expanded version of which was also part of a Martin short- story collection released in 1. Netflix, which could make a deal to stream the show internationally, as well as stream it once it’s aired on Syfy in the US. Nightflyers already has a showrunner (Dan Cerone of The Blacklist and The Mentalist), as well as a director (Mike Cahill of I Origin and Another Earth; he also directed the pilot for another Syfy show, The Magicians) for its currently- in- production (but not- yet- cast) pilot episode. The pilot script is by Jeff Buhler, who co- wrote the upcoming Jacob’s Ladder remake (as well as the Clive Barker adaptation Midnight Meat Train); THRdescribes the plot thusly: It is set in the future on the eve of Earth’s destruction and follows a crew of explorers who journey on the most advanced ship in the galaxy, The Nightflyer, to intercept a mysterious alien spacecraft that might hold the key to their survival. As the crew nears their destination, they discover that the ship’s artificial intelligence and never- seen captain may be steering them into deadly and unspeakable horrors deep in the dark reaches of space. Unspeakable horrors in deep space” is one of our all- time favorite genres, so this is very good news indeed, and we’re hopeful that the series gets an official greenlight soon.

And lest you worry this is yet another project that will distract George R. R. Martin from what should be his sole focus in life at the moment (finishing The Winds of Winter, duh), fear not—his exclusive HBO deal for Game of Thrones means his involvement in Nightflyers would be solely inspirational.