Virgin on Beatie Wolfe's Power of Music and Dementia Study
Ham and High on Beatie Wolfe Dementia Work
The Times featured Beatie Wolfe on Page 3
"Listening to new music improves memory of dementia patients" The Times
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.
Prince of Soho interviews Beatie Wolfe
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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
Record Collector Review Wolfe's debut album 8ight
Apple, World Tour - Berlin with De:Bug
Wired Magazine Salon, London, UK - Exhibition
Apple, World Tour - London with GQ
Apple, World Tour - New York with Spin's Craig Mark
GQ Magazine on Beatie Wolfe
Monocle's Mediterranean Checks In with Beatie Wolfe
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."
Apple Theatre Exhibition Tour, UK/DEU/US - Exhibition
Beatie Wolfe released her debut album 8ight as a 3D interactive album app. GQ Magazine premiered the release across its magazine and iPad edition and Apple invited Beatie Wolfe to be the first artist to tour its global event theatres: New York, London, & Berlin. Beatie's interviewers included: Spin's Editor-in-Chief Craig Marks in New York, GQ's Commissioning Editor Charlie Burton in London and De:Bug's Founder & Editor Sascha Kösch in Berlin.