This track started out as a stop-starter, as opposed to a liquid roller. These micro stops perhaps create a disjointed movement. As halloween approached and I was looking for samples I remembered a projected I had worked on a decade previous, a horror story. “Porkface” by Alan Tynan, I was asked to contribute to with my little sound engineering experience. Inspired by Texas Chainsaw Massacre and Halloween, Alan had assembled a small team to make his disturbing project come to life. This meant recording voice actors and actresses, and at one point I even got asked to play one of the characters. I was always shy of acting so when I had to scream as if I was being chopped up with a chainsaw, it was a mixture of nervousness then hilarity. How can one seriously take a script where your character gets chopped up?
Forward to the present day, I was looking for a sample and remembered Alan’s character’s voice and his maniacal cackle. So I sampled it from the Porkface: The Orgin videos on YouTube. While listening back and hearing my terrible but hilarious acting, I also heard Herbert’s incredible primal cry into the abyss, “no!”. This was also too good to not sample. So I dropped this into the production to.
Watching back all the Porkface videos a decade on, I could see past the zero budget production values. I just saw the raw idea, well executed with Alan’s drawing and some really great voice acting. And, I was shocked at how very dark and disturbing the story is. Just like the best horror stories. It was a lot of fun to be a part of. Here’s hoping it gets commissioned into a full animated short one day.
As a tribute to Porkface and the madness it spawned, here I present “Horror Skank” which is part horror and part skank. I love a good skank. A word to describe a kind of dance, you know with some knees up and arms swinging. The more words for dancing the better I say.