PARTICLES AND WAVES · ENTERTAINMENT
Unlikely bandmates make music, share a stage, and build a life together. Two bands. Stories that keep going.
01 / THE BAND
Different worlds. Same room. One sound.
Cel animation, black-and-white film, 3D animation, manga, 8-bit games, woodblock prints, and shadow. Seven people step out of their own worlds and meet in ROOM ZERO, an old screening room turned rehearsal space.
They do not have to look alike to belong together. Making room for each other’s sound is how the songs—and the friendships—grow.
A face. A name. A sound. Open a story to get closer.
Black-and-white film
Lead vocals
A poised frontwoman with a smoky voice and a dry sense of humour. The film scratches followed her into the present. She wants you to hear the new song.
Pip keeps her honest. Echo leaves room for her next breath.
Cel animation
Synths
The quiet organiser in the yellow cardigan. She finds the chord that lets seven different sounds belong together—and occasionally has to stop saving everyone else’s solo for later.
Bo helps her start. She helps him leave a little silence.
Cinematic 3D animation
Drums
Big hands, a warm laugh, and surprisingly delicate timing. He wants to be the beat everyone can come home to. When the room goes quiet, he sometimes adds one fill too many.
Pip is his rhythm-section partner, never his sidekick.
Black-and-white manga
Electric guitar · 6 strings
Bold ink, big declarations, and a riff for almost everything. He wants to be needed for his melody, not just his volume. Kinu’s quiet notes are his favourite argument.
Kinu is his friendly rival: power meets space.
Ukiyo-e woodblock print
Shamisen · 3 strings
Paper fibres, ink lines, and a remarkably direct observation. Quiet does not mean cautious. She is often the first to try the thing nobody else would suggest.
She gives Kai’s guitar somewhere to land; Pip hears her experiments first.
Coarse 8-bit pixels
Electric bass · 4 strings
A small sprite with a large opinion about the low end. Direct, observant, and determined to be heard as the bassist. Less visual detail does not mean less musical detail.
Bo is his equal on the beat. Vera gets his unfiltered reviews.
An independent shadow
Backing vocals
A hat-shaped silhouette that travels across walls and floors. A warm voice, an unexpected reply, and no body casting the shadow. Wants a place in the band, not an explanation.
Vera makes space in the song. Celia makes space in the frame.
Music videos and introductions, available on YouTube.
Daylight festival · Music video
Seven worlds. One room.
The name, the members, their voices
02 / THE BAND
A solar-system band. Earth is not always the main character.
The Sun and planets make music—and have opinions. Earth’s pride, Saturn’s rings, the energy arriving from the Sun: science becomes the starting point for a very large-scale argument.
The Sun is a full member. Just too big to fit in the frame. You hear the voice and see the light.
Watch Sun Giant Systems ↗The calm centre. Too large to fit in the shot.
Restless, competitive, always one lap ahead.
Elegant, provocative, ready to overturn a boast.
Earnest caretaker. Can talk about life for a little too long.
The punk who refuses to be somebody else’s next home.
A grand showman who would like everyone on schedule.
Elegant and fond of attention. Do not insult the rings.
Perfectly ordinary, by his own standards.
A quiet poet who never rushes the reply.
Pluto is a dwarf planet and, in the story, a former member. The personalities and conversations are fictional.