EARTHSONIC

The Story of Climate Change, told through music, science & indigenous people

EarthSonic is a global project telling the story of climate change through music, working with indigenous communities, musicians, cultural organisers, scientists and climate activists and experts. At In Place of War, we recognise that people living in places of conflict are at risk of higher vulnerability and exposure to environmental breakdown and climate hazards, with many of the communities we work with already feeling the impacts to devastating effect. We also know that climate change will affect everyone, and the need for change is urgent.

The project aims to distill big complicated data and reach young people’s hearts and minds, inspiring a clear call to action and unifying a movement to stop climate change. The project will engage people across the world through:

• MUSIC AND RECORDING WITH SOUNDS OF CLIMATE CHANGE

  Reworking the sounds collected by scientists of climate change, through changing whale song and the sounds of receding glaciers into pieces of music, streamed across the world, engaging audiences via recorded music.

• WORLD-FIRST CONCERTS STREAMED FROM DISAPPEARING SPACES

  Producing a series of streamed concerts in disappearing spaces with some of the biggest artists in the world - the first concert will be on the Russell Glacier in 2024, then on a polluted river in Brazil in 2025 and on a melting frozen sea in Finland in 2026.

• EDUCATION AND ADVOCACY

  Education, advocacy and youth empowerment through our 100 Creative Agents of Climate Change online residency programme - aiming to impact thousands of young people and engage them in the movement.