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In a world where climate change often feels like a distant, abstract problem, artists such as Andrea Polli and initiatives such as Sounds Right are bringing the issue to the fore – and making climate change and its impacts both tangible and impossible to ignore.
Currently a professor at the University of New Mexico, Andrea Polli has spent decades exploring the intersections of art, science and technology. From transforming atmospheric data into sonifications, to creating real-time visualisations of air quality readings, her work turns environmental data into sensory experiences that capture the unseen forces affecting our air and health – and challenges us to confront the reality of our impact on the planet.
Sounds Right, a Museum for the United Nations – UN Live initiative delivered in partnership with music, acoustic ecology, conservation and campaigning organisations, has a similar mission.
By treating NATURE as an official artist on streaming services such as Spotify and Apple Music, Sounds Right directs royalties from natural sound recordings to conservation efforts around the world. In other words, NATURE can now generate royalties from its own sounds to support its conservation.
Together, Polli's artwork and Sounds Right demonstrate how art, culture (and commerce!) can serve as powerful tools for climate activism, making the consequences of environmental inaction impossible to ignore.
Read more in Issue 3 of #RSAJournal:
➡️ Counting breaths by Andrea Polli: thersa.org/rsa-journal/2024/issue-3/counting-breaths
➡️ Now NATURE is officially an artist by Gabriel Smales: thersa.org/rsa-journal/2024/issue-3/now-nature-is-officially-an-artist
Visit Andrea Polli’s website: andreapolli.com
Learn more about Sounds Right: https://www.soundsright.earth/
➡️ Sounds Right is delivered in partnership with with music, acoustic ecology, conservation and campaigning organisations, such as:
• Museum for the United Nations - UN Live: museumfortheunitednations.com
• EarthPercent: earthpercent.org
• Limbo Music: limbomusic.com
• VozTerra: vozterra.com
• The Listening Planet: thelisteningplanet.com/introducing
• Earthrise Studio: https://www.earthrise.studio/
• No. 29 Communications: thenumber29.com
• Music Declares: musicdeclares.net
• LD: ldcommspr.uk
• Community Arts Network: community-arts.net
• Count Us In: count-us-in.com
• Rare: rare.org
• Biophonica: biophonica.com/home
• AKQA: akqa.com
• Hempel Foundation: https://www.hempelfonden.dk/en/
• AxumEarth: https://axum.earth/
• The World We Want: https://theworldwewant.global/
• Eleutheria: eleutheriagroup.com
• Dalberg: dalberg.com
➡️ Sounds Right have joined forces with high-profile organisations to encourage millions of music fans around the globe to recognise the value of nature and to inspire them to take action, including:
• Wildlife Conservation Society: wcs.org
• The Nature Conservancy: nature.org/en-us
• Apco Worldwide: apcoworldwide.com
• RikyRick Foundation: https://www.rikyrickfoundation.co.za/
• United Nations Act Now: un.org/en/actnow
In a world where climate change often feels like a distant, abstract problem, artists such as Andrea Polli and initiatives such as Sounds Right are bringing the issue to the fore – and making climate change and its impacts both tangible and impossible to ignore.
Currently a professor at the University of New Mexico, Andrea Polli has spent decades exploring the intersections of art, science and technology. From transforming atmospheric data into sonifications, to creating real-time visualisations of air quality readings, her work turns environmental data into sensory experiences that capture the unseen forces affecting our air and health – and challenges us to confront the reality of our impact on the planet.
Sounds Right, a Museum for the United Nations – UN Live initiative delivered in partnership with music, acoustic ecology, conservation and campaigning organisations, has a similar mission.
By treating NATURE as an official artist on streaming services such as Spotify and Apple Music, Sounds Right directs royalties from natural sound recordings to conservation efforts around the world. In other words, NATURE can now generate royalties from its own sounds to support its conservation.
Together, Polli's artwork and Sounds Right demonstrate how art, culture (and commerce!) can serve as powerful tools for climate activism, making the consequences of environmental inaction impossible to ignore.
Read more in Issue 3 of #RSAJournal:
➡️ Counting breaths by Andrea Polli: thersa.org/rsa-journal/2024/issue-3/counting-breaths
➡️ Now NATURE is officially an artist by Gabriel Smales: thersa.org/rsa-journal/2024/issue-3/now-nature-is-officially-an-artist
Visit Andrea Polli’s website: andreapolli.com
Learn more about Sounds Right: https://www.soundsright.earth/
➡️ Sounds Right is delivered in partnership with with music, acoustic ecology, conservation and campaigning organisations, such as:
• Museum for the United Nations - UN Live: museumfortheunitednations.com
• EarthPercent: earthpercent.org
• Limbo Music: limbomusic.com
• VozTerra: vozterra.com
• The Listening Planet: thelisteningplanet.com/introducing
• Earthrise Studio: https://www.earthrise.studio/
• No. 29 Communications: thenumber29.com
• Music Declares: musicdeclares.net
• LD: ldcommspr.uk
• Community Arts Network: community-arts.net
• Count Us In: count-us-in.com
• Rare: rare.org
• Biophonica: biophonica.com/home
• AKQA: akqa.com
• Hempel Foundation: https://www.hempelfonden.dk/en/
• AxumEarth: https://axum.earth/
• The World We Want: https://theworldwewant.global/
• Eleutheria: eleutheriagroup.com
• Dalberg: dalberg.com
➡️ Sounds Right have joined forces with high-profile organisations to encourage millions of music fans around the globe to recognise the value of nature and to inspire them to take action, including:
• Wildlife Conservation Society: wcs.org
• The Nature Conservancy: nature.org/en-us
• Apco Worldwide: apcoworldwide.com
• RikyRick Foundation: https://www.rikyrickfoundation.co.za/
• United Nations Act Now: un.org/en/actnow
