Reznor and frequent collaborator Atticus Ross have crafted a soundtrack for the short, a nine-minute chilled out ambient tune inspired by electromagnetic sounds emitted by the solar system's largest planet.
All it needed to make it perfect was a side room of ambient chill out.
A prototype system was built and tested to study the interaction dynamics between the Stirling engine and adsorption chiller and to determine the performance of the chiller in extreme ambient temperature conditions.
They're hi-tech but slow-tempo, although ambient chill-out this is not.
FM3 was founded in 1999, starting out as "the ambient, chill-out band that played in the back room" of Beijing clubs and evolving into a "meditative" sound.
The polygeneration system is based on the following main components: concentrating parabolic through solar collectors, a double-stage LiBr H2O absorption chiller and an ambient pressure SOFC fuel cell.
"The most surprising thing that Chris does," he continued, "is that while he has this ambient, freaky, chilling quality that curls around him, he can also plug into a character's vulnerability in a split second with his face, his tone, his body".
TIM HECKER The composer Tim Hecker, whose heavyweight and nearly spiritual music is full of drones, repetition, natural echo and ambient death-chill, has apparently removed some of the distortion and sonic muting that marked his earlier work, like the great "Ravedeath, 1972," from 2011; the new one, "Virgins" (Kranky) includes woodwinds and synthesizers.
I'm also looking forward to Janna Graham and Chris Jones of Ultra-Red's workshop, they were a group active in the early 90s interested in ambient and chill-out rooms, and how they could be brought together with musical activism.
As its name implies, it provides music designed to work or study to: carefully-crafted streaming radio stations in genres including classical, jazz, ambient and "alpha chill".
