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Recomposed:Music, Climate, Crisis, Change
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CAN MUSIC SAVE THE WORLD?
We are witnessing a climate-oriented transformation of what music is and how it comes to be. Recomposed shows how musicians around the world are using the cultural power of music to link climate awareness to climate action.
Award-winning author and academic Kyle Devine profiles EarthPercent, founded by Brian Eno and others to help funnel money from the music business to climate causes. Devine enrolls in a course led by ClimateEQ, which teaches carbon literacy for the music industry. He investigates a platform to help musicians finance solar energy. Devine embeds himself among a dynamic cast of manufacturers and inventors seeking ways to make records more sustainable, from recycling old vinyl to making discs from bioplastic. At the center of this multifaceted story is the climate impact of music festivals and touring musicians.
Everywhere you look, music and our habitat are changing together.
Reviews
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[Recomposed digs] deeper into the pragmatism of real-world efforts to reduce fossil fuel consumption, greenhouse gas emissions, and other environmental solutions as they have been proposed, and at times implemented, across the past few years.
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Recomposed ultimately succeeds because it refuses to treat music as politically innocent or materially immaterial. Even its most idealistic forms remain entangled in systems of labour, consumption, infrastructure, and profit. Whether or not one shares Devine’s political conclusions, the book persuasively argues that music’s environmental impact cannot be separated from the economic structures that make modern music culture possible.
PopMatters -
Kyle Devine understands that the connection between the climate and the material aspects of music goes beyond making LPs from potatoes (rumored) or the environmental impact of streaming (true, varied). Especially within circles of musicians, the social architecture or music-making is deeply under-discussed. Recomposed puts class at the center of the climate discussion, when it is sorely needed.
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Kyle Devine takes us inside the industry behind that boom, from a Hollywood conference room to a record-pressing plant near Vancouver. He introduces us to some of the companies working to green the industry, exploring a crucial question: What does the record of the future look like?
Longreads -
[Recomposed] cuts through fashionable 'green marketing' BS. The book offers a sobering assessment of just how small of a dent we make in the climate crisis when we buy eco-friendly products or support arts that are fighting for the cause of the environment...Recomposed finds music poised between imaginative possibility and the entrenched economics driving environmental harm.
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