Original Music for Google Contrails

The Future of Flight is a Google AI documentary about contrails, the line-shaped clouds behind aircraft that drive roughly 35% of aviation’s global warming impact. Google Research uses AI, satellite imagery and weather data to predict where contrails will form, so pilots can route around them. WithFeeling composed the original music for the film, in partnership with Overcoast.

Score a research-led film about contrail avoidance and turn dense climate science into something a general audience can feel. The music had to support visuals of weather systems, satellite imagery and aviation data without overpowering the narration, while making a complex idea feel hopeful and human.

An original soundtrack that lets the research breathe. The music gives The Future of Flight its sonic identity, and helps Google make the case that contrail avoidance could be one of the most cost-effective climate solutions in aviation, at an estimated $5 to $25 per ton of CO₂.