Silence+Other Sounds – Hellen

Silence+Other Sounds – Hellen: Ghostly Voices & Creatures 👻🔥

Enter a realm of darkness, whispers, and otherworldly presence with Hellen, a powerful Kontakt vocal library designed for horror, thriller, and dark cinematic scoring. Created in collaboration with renowned vocalist Alessandra Cognetta (aka Psamathes), Hellen delivers an expansive collection of haunting human and creature voices shaped through cutting-edge sound design.

From multisampled operatic soprano performances to blood-curdling screams, whispers, growls, gasps, and yells, every sound has been carefully recorded and transformed. The library also blends tonal and atonal vocal layers with eerie non-vocal sources, including animal recordings, metallic friction, bowed textures, and organic noises, resulting in an unsettling and deeply cinematic palette.

Advanced processing techniques—such as Kyma spectral morphing, formant manipulation, vowel shaping, and experimental vocal processing—push these recordings far beyond realism. The outcome is a vast range of sonic characters: ethereal soprano textures, demoniac shrieks, ghostly laments, disturbing laughs, monstrous vocalizations, breathing loops (tempo-synced), and even cryptic syllables and phrases in a fictional language inspired by ancient Latin.

Featuring 12 expertly crafted Kontakt instruments, Hellen is built for both playability and sound design, making it an essential tool for modern composers and ambient producers. Whether you need subtle haunted atmospheres, terrifying vocal stabs for jump scares, or designed creature effects that cut through the mix, Hellen delivers spine-chilling impact and cinematic depth.