The Roche Limit is a science fiction project to soundtrack the open expanse, creating pathways to explore offshore worlds, abandoned planets, frozen dead oceans, ancient decaying monoliths and stars losing mass and energy that drift into a dormant state.

Analogue synthesizers, sampled electronics, throbbing pads and deep reverbs combine for an environmental soundscape that moves across dark atmospheres.

“Any planet is 'Earth' to those that live on it.”
― Isaac Asimov, Pebble in the Sky

The Roche Limit is a dark ambient project with a science-fiction focus. Spaces and atmospheres are described through the music and artwork. Listen to the soundscapes and transform your space into another place in time. 

Art and music is copyright and proprietary - contact for usage rights: therochelimit@google.com

Dormant satellite network

Standing gazing at the moon on a foreign landscape, a dormant astral zone between this world and another orbiting satellite.

The Roche Limit is a science fiction project to soundtrack the open expanse, creating pathways to explore offshore worlds, abandoned planets, ancient decaying monoliths and stars losing mass and energy that drift into a dormant state.

“The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.”
― Isaac Asimov

The Roche Limit is a dark ambient project with a science-fiction focus. Spaces and atmospheres are described through the music and artwork. 

Listen to the soundscapes and transform your space into another place in time. 

Art and music is copyright and proprietary - contact for usage rights: therochelimit@google.com

Tombaugh Regio

Darkness, it has been found, is composed
of an almost infinite number of particles,
which roost and reproduce up North

Forest fires, lampposts, lasers, blazing sunlight,
torches, candles, lighthouses, limelight, and electricity
are relatively rare in the polar regions.

“The Migration of Darkness,” Peter Payack

The Roche Limit is a dark ambient project with a science-fiction focus. Spaces and atmospheres are described through the music and artwork. 

Listen to the soundscapes and transform your space into another place in time. Art and music is copyright and proprietary - contact for usage rights: therochelimit@google.com

Dark hopper

This choreography of ruin, the world breaking
like glass under a microscope,
the way it doesn’t crack all at once,
but spreads out from the damaged cavities.

Still for a moment it all recedes.
The backyard potatoes swell quietly
buried beneath their canopy of leaves.

Concentric Rings

Gish Bar Patera - ambient journey - created by The Roche Limit

A full length mix of tracks written and composed by The Roche Limit, produced using a range of modular analog synthesisers, recorded in London.

Inspiration from NASA's Galileo spacecraft that revealed fresh lava flowing into a wide pit named 'Gish Bar Patera' on Jupiter's moon Io.

The Roche Limit - Gish Bar Patera

“Any planet is 'Earth' to those that live on it.”
― Isaac Asimov, Pebble in the Sky

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