Material Matters on Beatie Wolfe
Material Matters editor Grant Gibson sits down with Beatie Wolfe
BEATIE WOLFE - MUSIC AND MATERIAL
28.06.23. INTERNET
Beatie Wolfe is a musician and artist, who has in her time been described as a ‘musical weirdo and visionary’ and one of the ‘22 people changing the world’.
In a relatively short career she has: created a 3D interactive album app and a musical jacket; worked in the world’s quietest room to develop an ‘anti-stream’; fired her music into space; made a documentary with the Barbican; designed an environmental protest piece, entitled From Green to Red, which was shown at the Nobel Prize Summit; worked with people suffering from dementia; and recorded a track for a 12 inch record made of bioplastic, alongside Michael Stipe.
Her latest project, Imprinting: The Artist’s Brain, was on show as part of the recent London Design Biennale at Somerset House, and is a sonic self-portrait that involves old-school telephones as well as a thinking cap designed by an iconic tailor.
The theme running through all this is her desire to ‘re-materialise’ music and give it back a sense of ‘tangibility and ceremony’.
In this episode we discuss: keeping space rock in her pocket; her latest project at the London Design Biennale; being self-critical as a child; writing her first songs aged nine; working with renowned tailor Mr Fish; the importance of collaboration; sending her music into space; finding the balance between innovation and tradition; her childhood desire to be a ninja; being in a grunge band; the power of art; and the importance of neurologist Oliver Sacks to her career.
Beatie Wolfe at the Saatchi Gallery w/ CRAFT Magazine
An audience with Beatie Wolfe at the Saatchi Gallery with CRAFT Magazine and COLLECT
Great to be Crafts magazine¹s first-ever Music Club interviewee. I'm looking forward to speaking at the Saatchi Gallery with CRAFT Magazine's Editor Grant Gibson about 'The Art of Music' and singing some songs
“Friday 3 February at 17.30 In the Art of Music Crafts magazine¹s first-ever Music Club will feature singer songwriter and innovator Beatie Wolfe talking to editor Grant Gibson about her relationship with technology and making. And she’ll be playing a few tunes from her new album too. ”
This interview is part of COLLECT (Collect: The International Art Fair for Contemporary Objects) which is now in its 13th edition click to buy tickets or email enquires
