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Shift Festival, UK 2010
The Shift Festival was an event of the Cape Farewell Project which took place in London in January 2010, and played host to musicians, comedians, all responding to their Arctic experience and reflections on climate change.
“Julie’s Bicycle was created almost three years ago by a cross section of people from across the music industry who felt strongly about the need for concerted action to improve the environmental impact of the music business. We are a not for profit company with a small staff and a board made up of senior figures from the music industry.” – ony Wadsworth, Julie’s Bicycle Chair and BPI Chairman.
Julie’s bicycle has achieved much in assisting the music, and now the theatre, industry to address their own carbon footprint and leverage their role to reach out to the broader community to affect change.
The Adelaide Symphony Orchestra will perform a Concert for the Earth to create awareness about climate change. The ASO will commission this new work from Gerard Brophy to be performed in November 2010. The concert concept came from South Australia’s Premier, Mike Rann, an advid supporter of the arts as well as a the first Premier to also be Minister of Climate Change.
Requiem for Fossil Fuels is the work of sound artists Bruce Odland and Sam Auinger (O+A). The performance features four accomplished singers chanting the requiem alongside O+A’s eight-channel digital orchestra of city sounds collected over 20 years and representing the voices our fossil-fuelled society – from helicopters to rush hour traffic to steel manufacturing. The Requiem is on tour in 2010, and was performed at St Joseph’s church in San Jose as part of the SJ01 festival to a standing ovation. O+A describe the work as a ‘timely and deep meditation on the culture, its fascinations, and its future’.