If you’ve ever wondered what the soundtrack to existential dread might be, then French producer Ténèbre might have just created it. On the face of it his new record Terraform is a vast, harsh, cold and unrelentingly dystopian vision, but once you become accustomed to it, although it never becomes welcoming, you can stop to admire the view.
‘Terraform’ is a term used in science fiction for creating a likeness of Earth on another planet, and Carl Sagan’s chimerical proposition to terraform Venus is probably the closest we will ever come to actually doing it. But what makes it interesting in this case is that the music contained here was first used as sound design for AV experiences on this planet exploring climate change. To the listener, it feels like Ténèbre is actually soundtracking a sort of reverse-terraforming as we turn Earth from paradise into another uninhabitable mass orbiting a star.
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