Invisible
Unseen

MovieScore Media releases OST album to Belgium's newest supernatural series Unseen, currently airing on RTBF. Composer Eloi Ragot (La Trêve) created the series' elegant, yet touching contemporary score.

MovieScore Media releases OST album to Belgium's newest supernatural series Unseen, currently airing on RTBF.
Composer Eloi Ragot (La Trêve) created the series' elegant, yet touching contemporary score.

After La Trêve (The Break), Ennemi Public or Unit 42, the FWB-RTBF Series Fund continues its momentum and now presents Belgium's newest supernatural thriller series Unseen, which premiered on La Une (RTBF) last Sunday.
The 8-episode series, created by Marie Enthoven and directed by Geoffrey Enthoven tells the story of how, over the course of ten days, the inhabitants of Creux are confronted with a mysterious phenomenon: some of them become invisible...
Out of sight, the invisible can do anything without being seen. No one to punish him, no one to compliment him, no one to judge him… But is it really an advantage? Some use their invisibility as a tool for revenge or domination, others experience it as an exile. But all are faced with a moral choice: is their invisibility a power or a handicap? What remains of our humanity when no one can see us anymore? Faced with the unimaginable, visible and invisible will try, each in their own way, to save their own world.

The anxiety-inducing atmosphere of the series and the way it resonated with the current real events linked to the international health crisis, inspired composer Eloi Ragot to create the series' original music:
'The score was almost entirely written during the first lockdown last Spring, a situation that has definitely influenced me. When preparing this soundtrack album, I noticed that most of the melodies are based on patterns with repetitive notes and recurring dissonance. Those darker sounds seem to go around in circles and - at the same time - evolve very slowly.'
'The main difficulty was to find the right tone for some scenes because the series contains quite a lot of science-fiction elements, but tends to remain very realistic at the same time. So sometimes the music had to follow the emotions of the characters and sometimes it had to build a genre atmosphere. Or even both for some scenes!', Ragot continues.
'Because of this mix science-fiction and realistic, the choice for a hybrid score with electronic and orchestral felt natural. Some scenes or locations called for electronic music such as the roughness of the very dark basement or the hospital where strange things are happening...I love designing sounds and electronic instruments and was really happy to create the right soundscape for these darker moments.
Secondly, I decided to work with the St. George Quintet (a young & upcoming string ensemble from Ghent) to illustrate the deep and delicate relationships (family, friends, lovers) between some of the characters: .. As things go bad, the inhabitants of Creux start supporting each other and care for one another even more than before.
Finally, I did record a couple of tracks with a bigger string orchestra set-up from the Budapest Art Orchestra because some scenes were so intense and universal, they needed the richness of a bigger ensemble.'

'The sound of this score is also definitively unique, especially the electronic part as I created many original textures myself, using different synths and recording manipulation techniques.
You will never hear the sound of the hospital anywhere else for example, unless you have the same dishwasher as mine, the one that make a “boing” when you hit some of the plastic parts, and you've recorded that sound and distorted it with the same effects that I did...'

About Eloi Ragot:
Eloi Ragot (FR/BE/DE) is a film composer, multi-instrumentalist and sound designer best known for creating intense, sensorial and immersive soundtracks.
His work includes the original music for international series such as La Trêve (The Break, Best French-Speaking Series Award @ Series Mania Festival 2016, 2 seasons now on Netflix) and Keizersvrouwen (Women of the Night, co-written with Hannes de Maeyer, now on Netflix).

Besides TV series, Eloi has been working on the Canadian feature film Reservoir, selected as the official opening film of the 'Festival international du cinéma d'auteur de Rabat' and released in theaters in December 2019 and the WWII feature documentary co-produced by ZDF & RTBF The Red Orchestra (Die Rote Kapelle, for which he recorded with the Budapest Symphony Orchestra) which will have its theatrical release early 2021.

Self-taught pianist and guitarist, he is also a classically-trained trumpeter and studied musical analysis and writing. Since 2008, he has composed, arranged and produced music for over 40 films and series for diverse production companies and TVs - including Lucas Etc. (teen series for RTBF & VRT), the second season of La Théorie du Y (Jury Award + Public Award @ Swiss Web Festival 2017) and Euh (Jury Award @ Swiss Web Festival 2016) - and was selected to many ‘artist-in-residence’ programs including the prestigious Berlinale Talent in 2017. Eloi has also held several masterclasses in festivals such as ARE YOU SERIES? 2016 and Soundtrack Cologne 2018.

As a passionate music producer, Eloi likes to combine field recording, sampling, electronic and acoustics sounds to create exciting textures and soundscapes.

Eloi has just finished the score to Belgium’s newest supernatural series Unseen (currently broadcast on RTBF and directed by Geoffrey Enthoven) and is currently working on the Japanese-German-Belgian series The Window, an international co-production about the multi-billion dollar business surrounding international professional football and the US feature documentary Harpooned (working title).

Eloi lives and works between Brussels, Paris and Berlin and is fluent in French, English and German.

More info at: Invisible