Turning a tense horror movie into an uplifting techno tune

Not all aliens want to eat you. Thanks Robyn.

“In space, no one can hear you scream”. Alien. 1979.

Space. Infinite nothingness in every direction. But for interstellar travellers, this vastness is threatening. Hostile. Home.

In Alien, Ridley Scott’s 1979 masterpiece, the crew of the Nostromo live under cramped conditions. There’s nothing but a thin shell of steel between them and the deadly vacuum of space. And if this is not enough to show us how fragile we are, a highly aggressive extraterrestrial creature gets on board… and you know the rest.

With set design by Swiss surrealist H.R. Giger and production design concept by Ron Cobb, Alien looks and feels great, even today. The film’s gritty sci-fi universe and horror-genre narrative tricks make for a tense, explosive cinematic experience. And this is what I want to capture with my second track using Ableton Live.