Special: Brian Eno x Beatie Wolfe on Art and Climate

Brian Eno x Beatie Wolfe on Art and Climate: Earthday special

Friday 22 April 2022 - 08h00 - 09h30

Brian Eno and Beatie Wolfe talk Art and Climate on dublab for this Orange Juice for the Ears special that marks Earthday 2022. Their conversation was recorded live in Austin where it was SXSW’s Featured Session for the day art/climate converged.

The conversation between musical visionaries Brian Eno and Beatie Wolfe covers how art can play a vital role in response to the climate emergency, with Brian sharing his music industry charity EarthPercent and Beatie sharing 'From Green to Red,' an environmental protest piece built using 800,000 years of NASA data to visualize rising CO2 levels.

This show also marks the day EarthPercent x Earth Day campaign launches where Brian Eno and Beatie Wolfe join 100+ artists offering a track to support organizations doing vital work to help tackle the climate emergency. All info earthpercent.bandcamp.com

This show closes with the record Songs of the Humpback Whale by Dr Roger Payne.

Brief: The Visual Effects Chief Creative Phil Crowe

The Brief: Beatie Wolfe interviews Phil Crowe, Founder of the award-winning VFX company Parliament, about the value of creative constraints and distilling the brief. Listen to this dublab radio show that takes you from chasing bees in Barnsley to the big screens of the Superbowl via the strength of relationships. 

Orange Juice for the Ears with “musical weirdo and visionary” (Vice) Beatie Wolfe explores the power of music across Space, Science, Art, Health, Film & Technology by talking to the leading luminaries in each field from Nobel Prize winners to multi-platinum producers and hearing the music that has most impacted them, their “Orange Juice for the Ears”. Beatie Wolfe is an artist who has beamed her music into space, been appointed a UN Women role model for innovation and held an acclaimed solo exhibition at the V&A Museum.

Phil Corwe’s Orange Juice for the Ears

• First song that imprinted? “The Winner Takes it All” by ABBA

• First album that shaped who you are? The Stone Roses by The Stone Roses - track played “Waterfall”

• The music you would send into Space? “Waterloo Sunset” by The Kinks

• The song you would have at your memorial? “If I Can Dream” by Elvis

• The album you would pass onto your kids? Histoire De Melody Nelson by Serge Gainsbourg - track played “Cargo Culte”

The show opens with “So Long, Marianne” by Leonard Cohen, a track Beatie Wolfe most associates with Phil.  

The show first aired live on LA’s dublab radio but is also available as a podcast. This podcast was Mastered by Dean Hovey. For rights reasons the music in this podcast version is shorter than in the original broadcast.