Geeks & Beats podcast interviews Beatie Wolfe

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Named by WIRED as one of “22 people changing the world,” pioneering singer-songwriter 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 of her ‘world first’ album designs at the V&A Museum.

“I want people to be excited about albums again.”

'Musical weirdo and visionary' (Vice) Beatie Wolfe presents an experiential evening of film, live performance and conversation. Tickets: https://bit.ly/2N3dEz3 Pushing the boundaries of theatre, dance, film, music and visual art, the Barbican is a world-class arts and learning centre. Subscribe: http://ow.ly/O44tx Like: http://www.facebook.com/barbicancentre Follow: http://www.twitter.com/barbicancentre Discover: http://www.instagram.com/barbicancentre Listen: http://www.soundcloud.com/barbicancentre Explore: http://blog.barbican.org.uk What's on?

Wolfe is also the co-founder of a “profound” (The Times) research project looking at the power of music for people living with dementia.

On October 8th, 2019, a documentary called “Orange Juice for the Ears”, directed by Ross Harris, was released at the Barbican in London. The documentary talked all about Beatie and what she has done to change music and the way it’s consumed. It was named from an excerpt of Musicophilia by Oliver Sacks: “Music can lift us out of depression or move us to tears — it is a remedy, a tonic, orange juice for the ear.”

The documentary goes through her experiences of using AR, VR, NASA technology and more to accompany her albums – past and present.

From Green To Red

Launched in October 2019, Beatie put together part protest, part art project “From Green to Red.” A project with The Mill, this is a music video that uses historical data to visualize the CO2 impact on our environment. It’s absolutely stunning, yet horrifying all at the same time. See a sample for yourself:

Art rebel Beatie Wolfe creates a stirring environmental protest piece about human impact on the planet, built using 800,000 years of historic data... "From Green to Red" (taken from the title of a song Wolfe wrote in 2006 after seeing 'An Inconvenient Truth') tracks the impact of human behaviour on the planet, creating a stirring visualization of the CO2 concentration in the Earth's atmosphere.

The song, name from an excerpt of 2006’s “An Inconvenient Truth”.

It’s part music video and part protest song…. and entirely a statement of our time!

At The Mill, the installation is completely interactive and responsive. For the fully immersive ‘From Green To Red’ experience people will be able to interact with the piece in real-time via its motion sensors. As people approach the installation, both the music and timeline visualisation will respond – e.g. becoming clearer and sharper and revealing new factors/elements – and allow people to play with and explore the data. This has the effect of giving each individual a sense of agency about their own impact on the environment.