On Repeat: Score, Drone, Shadow

On Sundays I try to at least quickly note some of my favorite listening from the week prior — things I would later regret having not written about in more depth, so better to share here briefly than not at all.

▰  I end up listening to a lot of scores to films I never end up seeing. From the strength of the fragile ambient and minimalist music that Chris Gestrin recorded for his collaboration with filmmaker Jeff Carter, I’ll definitely be tracking down So Below, which is described as “A contemporary reflection on the utopian vision of Charles Fourier (1772-1837), framed in a multi-format cinema landscape variously local, regional, global, and cosmic.” Gestrin is based in British Columbia.

▰  Dreunen, by Magnetic Loops, is a series of quite varied drones recorded for International Drone Day, May 24, 2025. Magnetic Loops is based in Bristol, UK.

▰  Christopher Hanlon’s gentle “Thought Shadows” hides little glitches and beat-like plosives in its embrace. Hanlon is based in Belfast, Northern Ireland.