Today, Toronto musician Chloe Charles, who performs as ECHLO, shared the VR experience music video for “Hungry Ghost,” part of Gluttony, an ongoing multidisciplinary work spanning music, animation, virtual reality, and staged performance.
The project will be presented at the Aesthetica Film Festival in York, UK, running from November 4 to 8, 2026.
“Hungry Ghost” is a haunting electronic R&B tune that explores longing, emptiness, and the search for something deeper than the temporary pleasures we often reach for.
ECHLO explains:
“The Buddhist image of the hungry ghost gave me a language for something I’d been writing about long before I knew the term. It’s the experience of living with an inner emptiness that no amount of external success, love, beauty or possession can resolve. For me, that void often feels like a disconnection from our deeper nature and our sense of purpose. Hungry Ghost isn’t about excess. It’s about the longing beneath it, and the question of what we’re really searching for.”
Gluttony began as a poem and a musical composition before expanding into an immersive multidisciplinary work. The dialogue-free film follows an unnamed protagonist moving through an opulent and surrealist world with a hole in her chest where her heart should be. As she reaches for beauty, status, and material objects, each moment of relief quickly fades and collapses, reinforcing the central theme of an emptiness that cannot be filled from the outside.
The score was recorded with the FAME’S Studio Orchestra in Macedonia under the direction of conductor Oleg Kondratenko, while choreography was created by Irina Angles.
“Hungry Ghost” was written and composed by ECHLO, with remixing, mixing, and mastering by Luca Scarfidi.
With its atmospheric electronic R&B sound and deeply reflective concept, “Hungry Ghost” is an intriguing and haunting piece of ECHLO’s ambitious Gluttony project.
The combination of music, surreal imagery, and immersive technology makes this more than just a music video, it is an exploration of desire, emptiness, and what we may truly be searching for beneath it all.
Hungry Ghost gets: 📷📷📷📷📷📷📷/10.
