Bleep

Much like the ocean, Laurel Halo’s music contains unknowably vast depths, making her the perfect composer for Julian Charrière’s film Midnight Zone. A lighthouse lens plunges into the Pacific; schools of fish and creatures flurry around this curious alien artefact illuminating their untouched domain, while Halo’s soundtrack shivers and swarms alongside them. The ripples and muffled trickles of overflowing water on ‘Sunlight Zone’ are a beautiful blur between electronics and strings, yet lurch uneasily as harmonic drift highlights the looming exploitation of untapped expanses. The deeper we dive, the shadowier it sounds, sonifying the metallic sweeps of deepsea mining, sifting through shimmering mineral shards.