Topic “music”
Earth Music
Antarctica and Uppsala give us earth-made music.
DJ Spooky went to Antarctica, recorded the sounds of ice melting and shifting, and came back with Terra Nova: Sinfonia Antarctica. Composed to be played by a string ensemble, Spooky will live edit and loop the ensemble's sounds with recorded samples as video footage of Antarctic exploration pans out projected around them.
Then Uppsala, Sweden, where the Volt Music Festival is playing out. There's a huge turntable contraption called Terrafone, that when dragged across the earth surrounding it, plays like a big gravelley vinyl. They say it sounds like plowed earth, a rock gargling and an avalanche or a mountain crumbling...more on that here.
Songs About Packaging
The free 'Magical-Mystery-Tour' bus shall whisk you to the top of a landfill where a man performing packaging-related songs will serenade you on September 26.
Bus departs from Eltingville Transportation Center, Staten Island, New York. A free CD packaged from his upcycled contents of his recycling bin for every punter.
Sonic Fabric
50% recycled prerecorded audiocassette tape and 50% cotton, Sonic Fabric has been woven into ties, flags, dresses - and all designs are 'playable'. Run a tape head over the material and you'll hear the original playback.
A collection of these sounds here.
And more on their website.
ELECTRO GARDEN
Sip on Soda's and Champers while u listen to some electronic beats at the Kiyosumi Gardens. The incredible thing is, Its all powered up by a mobile solar system from Taguchi. Solar supersonic sounds, check it out!
via superfuture
HOW COULD WE NOT PAY TRIBUTE TO THE KING
My daughters pet fish, ironically called Michael Jackson died one week before the real one did. A sign?
There's BAD, Beat it, Thriller, Billie Jean, Heal the world and my all time fav - PYT. Now how about Earth song?
Back in 1996 when environmental issues were hardly a concern, Michael Jackson released this track. Among the visuals -deforestation, pollution, war and overfishing.
This is what he has to say - "For me, this is Earth’s Song, because I think nature is trying so hard to compensate for man’s mismanagement of the Earth. And with the ecological unbalance going on, and a lot of the problems in the environment, I think earth feels the pain, and she has wounds, and it’s about some of the joys of the planet as well."
There will never be anyone else like Michael Jackson. Too many copycats with hardly enough talent. You will be greatly missed.
via ecorazzi
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