Art: From Green to Red - An interactive environmental protest data art piece
Beatie Wolfe creates a stirring environmental art piece about human impact on the planet, built using 800,000 years of historic NASA 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, and asks us the question is it too late to turn back?
Film: The Barbican Documentary - Barbican commission film about Beatie Wolfe
The Barbican, commissioned a documentary on pioneering musician Beatie Wolfe that will be premiered at the Barbican cinema before heading to the US. Titled “Beatie Wolfe: Orange Juice for the Ears - From Space Beams to Anti-Streams” this documentary is part of the Barbican's 'Life Rewired' a season exploring what it means to be human in the digital age
Art: Raw Space: The Raw Space Chamber
The Raw Space Chamber tells the story of Raw Space – the world’s first live 360° AR stream – in its new immersive, portable incarnation. Inside this anechoic chamber (wrapped in NASA-grade Mylar linking to Wolfe’s Raw Space Broadcast), visitors can immerse themselves in a magical and ceremonial listening experience, watching the record come to life via a vintage coin-operated viewport (converted into a VR/AR headset)
Art: The Updated Album Deck Of Cards (Raw Space) - Collaborating With The World’s Leading Designers
The Raw Space Album Deck is an update of Wolfe’s intelligent album deck of cards format, originally conceived for Montagu Square as a type of digital cassette tape. Produced in collaboration with ArtCenter College of Design and its Acting Chair of Graphic Design Sean Adams, each of the Raw Space song cards have been designed by a leading international artist - which includes Erik Spiekermann, Marian Bantjes, Astrid Stavro, Lucienne Roberts et al - to reflect their interpretation of Wolfe’s music. Listeners can simply tap the song card to their phone to instantly play the track and access its content—liner notes, lyrics, artwork, music VR videos etc—which is being updated all the time, giving the Album Deck the feeling of a “living” or dynamic vinyl.
Art: Raw Space: The Raw Space Beam
Following its launch from the quietest room in the world, Raw Space was beamed into space via the historic Bell Labs Holmdel Horn Antenna, which was used to prove the validity of the Big Bang theory. Nobel Prize winning scientist Dr Robert Wilson (who discovered Cosmic Background Radiation) made the first update to this Historic National Landmark in 50 years to make sure the music of Raw Space got past the earth's atmosphere and into outer space.
Art: The Raw Space Anti-Stream - the world’s first 360° AR Live-Stream
Raw Space was released as the world’s first 360° AR Live-Stream, produced in collaboration with Bell Labs and Design I/O. Combining live 360° stereoscopic video of Wolfe’s physical record stream from the quietest room on earth, with real-time AR animations, the effect was a Fantasia-like live-streamed album, which ran continuously for a week with artwork that evolved every time the record spun. “With ‘Raw Space’, I wanted to create the anti-stream for our current streaming generation and really celebrate the world of the album – its artwork, arc, narrative, music – in a ceremonial and absorbing way that makes the listener feel like they’ve been transported into the world of the album, like I did opening up a record as a kid.” Wolfe follows in the footsteps of Andy Warhol, John Cage, Robert Rauschenberg as a collaborator of Bell Labs’ E.A.T. programme.
Music: Raw Space - Third Studio Album
Raw Space was released as the world's first live 360˚ AR album stream from the quietest room on earth, the Bell Labs anechoic chamber. This enhanced streaming format was pioneered by Wolfe as a way of recapturing some of the old-school magic of music, and celebrating the album's artwork and story in the listening process. The music of Raw Space has been described as "raw, honest" yet "deceptively complex" with the opening track, 'Little Moth', written in tribute to Elliott Smith.
Music: Sleepscapes for Calm - Creating a new format that has benefited hundreds of thousands
Art: The Montagu Square Album Jacket - Fashioning Music Into Art: A Truly Tailored Album Release
The Montagu Square Musical Jacket is a reimagining of the record jacket and a truly tailored album release for the 21st century. Wolfe recorded her second album Montagu Square in the former home of Hendrix, McCartney, Ringo, Lennon & Yoko Ono, and in the room where Hendrix wrote ‘The Wind Cries Mary’ and McCartney penned ‘Eleanor Rigby’. This live recording was then translated (complete with its ambient sound, resonance of the room and audience applause) into a woven fabric by textiles artist BeatWoven and cut by tailor Mr Fish – who dressed Hendrix, Jagger and Bowie – into the first Musical Jacket of its kind. The Jacket has also been NFC-enabled, allowing people to hear the music of Montagu Square by tapping their phone onto the fabric. Wolfe saw the Montagu Square wearable album jacket as a truly tailored album release for the 21st Century.
Art: The Album Deck Of Cards (Montagu Square) - The World’s first intelligent album deck
In addition to her Musical Jacket, Wolfe released her second album Montagu Square as the world's first NFC Album Deck, which marked a new intersection between technology and music. The album deck comes as a pack of beautifully printed MOO cards, encased in a box reminiscent of a tape cassette, with each card corresponding to a track from the Montagu Square album and featuring the song’s artwork, lyrics and an embedded NFC chip. Listeners can simply tap the song cards to their phone to instantly play the track and access its content – liner notes, lyrics, artwork, music videos etc – which is being updated all the time, giving the album deck the feeling of a “living” or dynamic vinyl.
Music: Montagu Square - Second Studio Album
Montagu Square was recorded at 34 Montagu Square - the former home and secret studio of Hendrix, Ringo, McCartney, Lennon & Yoko Ono - and in the room where McCartney wrote ‘Eleanor Rigby’ and Hendrix penned ‘The Wind Cries Mary’. The music of Montagu Square has been described as "tender and confident" (Independent) beautiful chamber pop, reflecting the spirit of the flat's inhabitants, with 'Take Me Home' (a William Blake inspired love ballad) being a standout.
Research: Power Of Music & Dementia - The Question No One Was Asking... Is It Music Or Memory
The Power of Music & Dementia was a pioneering study founded by singer-songwriter and innovator Beatie Wolfe that was the first to look at the power of music unconnected to memory for people living with dementia. Since beginning the Power of Music and Dementia research project in 2014 Wolfe has been campaigning this cause and her research study has been: picked up by Stanford Research, the American Alzheimer’s Association & Oxford University and used to develop the charity Music for Dementia - to make music available to everyone living with dementia by 2020
Art: World's First 3d Interactive Vinyl (8ight) - A Vinyl For Your Phone, A Theatre For The Palm Of Your Hand
For her debut album Wolfe wanted to put a record (the format she loved) onto a phone (a device now integral to people's listening) and so in collaboration with Design I/O pioneered the 3D Interactive Album App. This app opened up like a record with the liner notes, lyrics, artwork and music. But to give this experience a twist, the Palm Top Theatre was introduced to the release. By slotting your phone into the Palm Top Theatre, it was transformed into a miniature theatre in the palm of your hand and you could watch 8ight's 3D interactive visuals, filmed by Weavers Productions, come to life in a way that recaptured the magic of opening up a record and exploring its artwork
Music: 8ight - Debut Studio Album
Beatie Wolfe's debut album 8ight was released as the 'World's First' 3D Interactive Album App, which led to a global tour with Apple and marked the songwriter's first successful musical innovation. 8ight features 4 songs of light, 4 of dark, which touch upon the poetry and tragedy of relationships and stand as infinite love songs, expressed poignantly in 'Beautiful Affair', a song about missed opportunities: "Life can sober up this love, life looks tiny from above."