Signals from the Cosmos - Agency, Margate Arts Club

A guided listening experience exploring surveillance, revelation, resistance, and choice through John Carpenter and Alan Howarth's ‘They Live’ (1988) score at Margate Arts Club

7.30pm - 9.30pm

6. Agency - Choosing to See - A Soundtrack Journey through 'They Live' (1988)

Socialcreatures is a small team of creatives, musicians, audiophiles, technologists and therapists who create guided music listening events.

They create smaller connected experiences for 30-60 people. Using intentional listening and often exploring the psychological themes within music and their therapeutic benefits, they focus on artist curated music... so albums, film scores and other experimental forms.

Join them for an intimate two-hour journey from ordinary city life to a broadcast that was never meant to be decoded. Carpenter and Howarth combine urban drift, broadcast static, synth pads, and rock momentum as suspicion becomes recognition and recognition becomes resistance.

Listen for the point at which the everyday starts to sound controlled, then notice how the music turns awareness into movement. Once hidden power becomes visible, does the final theme sound like defiance, exhaustion, or the cost of choosing to look?

Connect, relax and quietly settle in with 30 other guests in the intimate and comfortable surroundings of the Margate Arts Club.

Rather than watching the film, you’ll listen to the score as a story. Expect a focused soundtrack listen, minimal non-distracting visuals and text to set context, and a relaxed discussion about how music moves from suspicion and revelation towards resistance, choice and agency on screen.

For ‘They Live’ fans, soundtrack lovers, film fans, DJs, selectors and anyone interested in intentional listening.

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Signals from the Cosmos - Agency

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