Elsewhere on the web, Suitably Desparing's blogger is weighing up listening to a wind-up radio against seeing Edinburgh's landmarks, while Vancouver's magazine Granville has a good roundup of ideas from last year, including the obvious one I've missed so far – making music. You could also be very retro and go in for a bout of storytelling, as some people recall doing during the 1970's power cuts, or take WWF up on its idea of a candlelit quiz on animals, green living and other topics. My own suggestions are heading to the high ground in a city to watch the lights go out in a kind of inverse Fireworks night, getting a boardgame out (Scrabble on a table still beats the iPhone version), or going to bed early for sleep and sex ( Care2 suggests tantric, but is an hour really long enough for that?). Other ideas from Guardian towers included looking at the stars – hopefully easier with Earth Hour's temporary drop in light pollution – meditating, going for a run, doing press-ups or, like Malcolm, having a candlelit dinner. I recommend a cracking book I received at Christmas on this art, Hand shadows to be thrown upon a wall, a Ronseal slither of a title written by a chap called Henry Bursill in 1860 to entertain his kids. It is available from Amazon, Apple Music/iTunes and streaming sites such as Spotify.One bright suggestion from the .uk team is making shadow puppets on the wall with a torch. Music For Hard Times is definitely an unusual, one-of-a-kind album! I can't really call it a favorite, but both the process and the end results are well worth exploring. Voices and a wide variety of musical instruments blend together in unique ways for the second half of this fascinating project. 2 is essentially a catalogue of individual spaces united in time - in many cases, recordings made literally during the same hours of January 2021, all over the world, then Dropbox-ed to Clay's home studio in San Francisco." More than 1200 sound files recorded by more than 100 musicians went into Vol. The duo also coached and guided students in their interpretations. Once tracks started to take shape, The Living Earth Show recorded more supporting material to fill out textures and add harmonic richness. 2 was constructed much like a puzzle or collage, finding sounds that were related to each other and then layering them. 2 emerged as the collective product of hundreds of hours of recordings by these scattered forces." (quoted from the liner notes for the album.) Vol. Along with Travis and Andy, the San Francisco Girls' Chorus and students from the San Francisco Conservatory were enlisted in a project that offered them "room to experiment with process, collaborate with each other remotely, and create something new, reframing classical music's traditional emphasis on faithful execution of unchanging scores. 2 of the project and are much more expansive. Although this music is referred to as "new age" by its creators, it is very ambient and more experimental than most "new age" music.Īgain based on the original strategies of Vol. Public figures and celebrities, such as UN Secretary-General Antnio Guterres, Justin Trudeau, Ellie Goulding, Iwan Rheon, Claudia Bahamn. We saw landmarks turn off their lights and supporters switch off at home, as well as a range of activities such as virtual concerts, mangrove planting, street clean-ups and virtual runs. 1 were recorded by Andy and Travis in the spring of 2020 and then edited and layered to create the individual pieces. Earth Hour was a moment of solidarity, where people from 192 countries and territories came together in support of people and our planet. If you'd like, play within this harmony, emerging in and out of it imperceptibly." "Imagine the most warm, enveloping harmony you can think of - build this harmony to sit in, indefinitely. Quoting the liner notes for the album, an example of one of the strategies is: 1 were based on a series of eight "calming strategies" that were basic, written/verbal guidelines (not traditional music notation) for each piece. Clay approached longtime collaborators, Andy Meyerson and Travis Andrews of the SF Bay Area electric guitar and percussion duo, The Living Earth Show, and they, in turn, spent the next several weeks recording the sixteen hours of raw material that became Vol. It was the latter intention that arose from composer Danny Clay asking how composers and conservatory-trained instrumentalists can use their specialized skills to help people to feel better. As the world turns up the dark, musicians are turning up the volume on climate action and joining the fight to change climate change. Quite a bit of that music has reflected various artists' personal feelings and emotional reactions to the pandemic while other artists have focused more on making other people feel uplifted and more relaxed with their music. It has truly been amazing and inspiring to experience the huge volume of music that has been created during this time of pandemic, lockdowns and travel restrictions.
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