The sound design is the star in ‘undertone,’ a podcast thriller with too much dead air
Ian Tuason’s debut horror film, “undertone,” is a deeply personal and quietly unsettling movie made with a very small budget. Filmed in the house where Tuason cared for his parents before their deaths, the film uses the actual location as both a setting and a source of emotional weight. The house, filled with floral wallpaper and religious symbols, feels claustrophobic, and the camera stays entirely within its walls, mirroring the overwhelming pain, exhaustion, and grief experienced by the characters.
![The study demonstrates that collective robotic systems, termed MASBots, exhibit chiral robotic matter behavior extending to an active chiral gas state-enabled by inertia-and reveal odd viscosity through microscopic parity violation, manifested as spontaneous droplet fission and spinning frequency-dependent parity breaking observed in both experimental and simulated angular-time kymographs, with parameters [latex]\omega = 20, E_{M} = 160[/latex] for the gas phase and [latex]\omega_{0} = 6, E_{M} = 80[/latex] for the liquid phase, ultimately driven by effective magnetic repulsion of 0.016 N.](https://arxiv.org/html/2603.09897v1/x3.png)
