FAD Magazine London Design Biennale highlights
The Great Discontent magazine cover feature on Beatie Wolfe
Beatie Wolfe returns to SXSW with Dell Technologies
Oprah Winfrey's magazine features Beatie Wolfe
SXSW inc Beatie Wolfe's session in "Iconic Moments" SXSW's best from last 25 yrs
Cool Hunting on Brian Eno and Beatie Wolfe
DLD Munich Conference invites Beatie Wolfe to talk (Jan 12-14)
Marie Claire's inaugural Power List names Wolfe
FT Quote Beatie Wolfe in streaming forecast
Meow Wolfe ft. on Artist Beatie Wolfe
MusicAlly on Michael Stipe and Beatie Wolfe's eco record
Art: Postcards for Democracy - A collective postart campaign born out of lockdown
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.