Robert Plant and Tinariwen in a new album to support refugees
The new collection of exclusive songs by Robert Plant, Tinariwen and other artists entitled The Long Road that will support the refugee crisis will be released in March.
The music of the Arab Spring in a documentary
Farid Eslam captured the music of the Arab uprisings in a film where the lives, dreams and hopes of Middle Eastern underground artists meet.
Thom Yorke writes a letter to Father Christmas: no more presents to oil companies
Once again Thom Yorke, lead singer of the band Radiohead, actively took part in initiatives aimed to raise awareness on the issue of climate change in occasion of Paris COP21, the 21st global conference on climate. RT if you stand with @thomyorke for tough action on climate change at #COP21 (it’s fake snow) #ClimateMarch pic.twitter.com/FqcosRUrCe —
COP 21: Massive Attack’s short film on climate change
Massive Attack’s founder Robert “3D” Del Naja realeased the soundtrack to the short film entitled La Fête est Finie (The party is over) with hip hop group Young Fathers and producer Forest Swords. The film will be premiered at Le Trianon theatre in Paris, where the negotiations on climate change are currently taking place, ahead of concerts by Thom Yorke,
Pearl Jam donate 54,000 dollars to protect forests in Latin America
On 28 November, Pearl Jam closed their Latin American tour of nine dates started on 4 November 2015, where they also played cover songs of popular bands including Comfortably numb by Pink Floyd, Imagine by John Lennon and a U2’s songs cover. But the Seattle band leaves its mark in Latin America for another reason: Pearl Jam decided to offset carbon emissions
DeepDream, the first music video created with Google neural network
Human bodies with animal heads. Mountains turning into buildings. Eyes scattered everywhere. These are not hallucinations, but the astonishing and even unsetting effects of the Deepdream technology, the open source code released by Google in July. This Artificial Intelligence System that uses neural networks to generate images through hidden algorithms, thus creating new dreamlike and grotesque
Borders, M.I.A.’s last video highlights the plight of refugees
Mathangi “Maya” Arulpragasam, better known as M.I.A., has released the video of her new song Borders, launched last week. The videoclip, directed by M.I.A. herself and shared via Apple Music, features the British artist of Tamil origins with a crowd of refugees climbing barbed wire fences while fleeing their home countries in small boats. The video represents
COP21: artists united to make their voices heard in Paris
A few days before the beginning of COP21, the conference on climate to take place in Paris from 30 November, more than 300 artists and leading personalities in the international creative industry signed an open letter addressed to the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs and President of COP21 as well as to the UNFCCC (United Nation framework
Symphony in D: the symphony orchestra with the sounds of Detroit
On 20 November the Detroit symphony orchestra played for the first time Symphony in D: a unique collaborative composition for the city of Detroit realised in two years by America’s most wired composer – according to the Los Angeles Times – Tod Machover, who already cooperated with artists like Peter Gabriel and Prince. The orchestration, led by music
How world’s first 3D printed violin sounds
French musician and engineer Laurent Bernadac realises world’s first electric violin with a 3D printer.