I am proud to share a project that pushed my boundaries as both a composer and a storyteller. "Paradise Glitch" (خلل الفردوس), directed by Mohamed Farid, is a deep dive into a future where our most sacred memories are commodified.
The Concept
Imagine a world where you can live new moments with a lost loved one in the Metaverse—but only if you can afford the subscription. The film follows a man forced into a devastating moral crossroads: Lose access to his deceased wife forever or agree to make her digital persona "Public Domain" to keep seeing her.
The Sound of Two Worlds
For the score, I wanted to create a "dual-identity" sonic landscape:
The Physical World: Grounded, organic textures representing the weight of grief and reality.
The Metaverse: Pulses of electronic life—shimmering, synthetic, and "perfect," yet cold.
Exploring the friction between these two lives through music was a fascinating challenge. It’s about more than just sci-fi; it’s about the ethics of technology and the price of love.
Listen to the Score
As we work toward bringing this film to streaming platforms, I invite you to listen to the soundtrack I’ve developed for this world.
Stream the album here: https://on.soundcloud.com/n8zB0shPxZlUt75BCa
I’m curious to hear from my fellow creators—how do you think AI and the Metaverse will change the way we preserve human legacy?
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https://on.soundcloud.com/n8zB0shPxZlUt75BCa
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I heard a couple of the tracks. While I get the contrast in sonorities, what's missing--at least to my ears--is dissonance, a clash of tonalities. It'd be more interesting to me for there to be a clash between tonality in the one world with atonality in the other. A classic illustration of that contrast can be found in the Charles Ives piece, "The Unanswered Question": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kkaOz48cq2g . The strings play a serene chorale in G-Major, while the trumpet and woodwinds play a call and response that don't adhere to that diatonic grounding.