A guided listening experience exploring how fear is heard and felt through Jerry Goldsmith's Alien score.
Join us for an intimate two-hour journey through the Nostromo, from the crew's waking to Ripley's final escape. Goldsmith places environment before monster: machine hum, orchestral chill, uneasy silence, and textures that make the ship feel alive before the creature is fully revealed.
Listen for threats you hear before you see them, notice how rhythm tightens the corridors around you, and ask what your body does as the chase gathers pace. When the score finally releases its grip, does it sound like safety or only a pause?
The experience
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, we’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 turns unseen threat, industrial space and bodily tension into fear on screen.
For Alien fans, soundtrack lovers, film fans, DJs, selectors and anyone interested in intentional listening.
The venue
The Margate Arts Club is a joyful, DIY, inclusive, intersectional, community organisation running since 2015. They have a world class sound system, set up with a nod to David Mancuso’s audiophile loft parties. Welcoming and friendly.
Program:
7:30pm - 7:45pm - get settled, grab a drink and meet the other guests.
7:45pm - 7:50pm - short intro from event host.
7:50pm - 8:20 - Guided listening experience - Part 1
8:20pm - 8:30pm - Interlude and share your thoughs.
8:30pm - 9:00pm - Guided listening experience - Part 2
9:00pm - 9:30pm - discuss, connect and share.
Exclusive post-event channel
Post-event all guests will also have access to an exclusive 'Fear | The Body Under Threat' Discord channel where you can continue the discussion with other guests for 7 days.
About us
Socialcreatures is a small team of creatives, musicians, audiophiles, technologists and therapists who create guided music listening events.
We create smaller connected experiences for 30-60 people. We use intentional listening and often explore the psychological themes within music and their therapeutic benefits. We focus on artist curated music so albums, film scores and other experimental forms.