MS: Nox Arcana often adds ambient sounds to their music, but the Zombie Influx CD really takes this to a whole new level with a collage of sirens, news broadcasts, megaphone emergency announcements, and other sound effects. What was the inspiration for this approach? MS: What kind of emotional impact are you hoping for from listeners? Buzz: It is great to hear people say they could visualize the entire progression throughout the CD with all aspects producing this imagery, as well as say it really creates the dread of a zombie outbreak.

It is also satisfying to see the eyes light up on Professional and Home Haunters when they can hear the possibilities. Since Buzz-Works is all about visual arts, is there a possibility of any kind of film production in the future?

Nox Arcana is the neoclassical dark wave musical act of Joseph Vargo. The group was founded in as a duo with William Piotrowski, who left the group in to pursue a career in film score composing and Vargo continued on as a solo act under the name. Piotrowski still acts as Nox Arcana's studio engineer. The name in Latin translates to "mysteries of the night. Nox Arcana specializes in concept albums based on original stories, as well as gothic fiction and classic horror literature [4] Some of their albums also make reference to medieval themes and ancient mythology.

In addition to the storytelling aspect of each album, hidden puzzles and interactive quests are incorporated into the album artwork and into the music itself. Beginning with the Blood of the Dragon CD in , Vargo began a tradition of incorporating a quest or adventure within the album artwork and sometimes leaving clues in his narratives. He later went back and did the same for some of the earlier CDs. Now more than half of Nox Arcana's CDs contain some sort of hidden puzzle, which is left to the listener to discover.

Nox Arcana's music is often used to provide atmosphere for films , public events, role-playing games and during Halloween at theme parks, several of which have based haunted attractions on Nox Arcana's original theme albums, Transylvania and Blackthorn Asylum.

Nox Arcana's music is melodic and moody, focusing on a dominant melody line. Nox Arcana is an American neoclassical , dark ambient musical duo, formed in by Joseph Vargo and William Piotrowski. Their name in Latin translates to "mysteries of the night. Nox Arcana specializes in concept albums based on original stories, as well as gothic fiction and classic horror literature [1] Some of their albums also make reference to medieval themes and ancient mythology.

In addition to the storytelling aspect of each album, hidden puzzles and interactive quests are incorporated into the album artwork and into the music itself. Their music is often used to provide atmosphere for films, public events, role-playing games and during Halloween at theme parks, several of which have based haunted attractions on Nox Arcana's original theme albums.

Nox Arcana's music is melodic and moody, focusing on a dominant melody line. Instrumentation varies with each album as appropriate to the theme or time period of the album concept, and typically includes piano, bells, violin, pipe organ, harpsichord, timpani drums and other percussion.

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