Maurice Ravel – Gaspard de la nuit: III. Scarbo

Scarbo as manic, flickering nightmare: a hyper-detailed, rapidly shifting texture that alternates between whispered scurrying and sudden outbursts. Built for psychological horror, hallucination, and high-anxiety sequences where the threat feels close and unstable. Jagged motifs, extreme dynamic contrast and five sculpted cutdowns give you multiple ways to stage build-ups, sudden apparitions and vanishing acts without losing the piece’s signature volatility. This is Ravel at his most unsettling: whispering figures that suddenly explode, textures that appear and vanish like a presence in the room. It’s built for sequences where a character’s perception is unstable—waking nightmares, paranoid nights, obsessive rituals—or where the threat is more psychological than physical. Five cutdowns (four loopable plus one End) let you tailor everything from low-level scratching unease to full-blown terror peaks and disappearances. Use-cases • Psychological horror scenes in bedrooms, hotel rooms, corridors at night • Hallucinations, panic attacks and spiralling obsessions in drama or thrillers • Stylised chase or stalking sequences in confined spaces • Surreal animation or experimental montage with rapid visual cuts • Teasers or trailers that need extreme, unstable classical energy Ravel Gaspard Scarbo, psychological horror piano, nightmarish classical cue, high anxiety underscore, hallucination scene music, dark fantasy piano, intense virtuoso piano underscore