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Club Furies Premiere: Taru - Mirror H [Bio Future Laboratory]

From Milan, Italy, Taru is presented as “research on sound and its possibilities”. “The Taru project” began when this artist was studying at the Academy of Fine Arts, focusing on sound design and the investigation of spatiality in an imaginary line that connects with the feelings he experienced in certain moments of life. Soundscapes, electronic sequences, artificial liquid soundtracks, and…

Club Furies Premiere: Taru - Mirror H [Bio Future Laboratory]

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Track taken from "Climate Denial Machine" by @forces-music that will be released 20th of December on @bio-future-lab. Pre-order album: bio-future-lab.bandcamp.com/album/clima…ial-machine

In 2012 there was a survey of the US public that asked the question: “Do scientists believe that Earth is getting warmer because of human activity?” Out of the people chosen for the questionnaire 43% replied no and another 12% didn’t know. Only 45% accurately answered yes.

One reason for this uncertainty is the continuous and ongoing media saturation of falsified information regarding climate change. This is done by shadowy institutes, committees, foundations and even departments inside universities that largely operate with funding from conservative oil and fossil fuel millionaires like the infamous Koch brothers. These pseudo-scientific institutions have been successful undermining the genuine research into climate change.

The environmental organization Greenpeace maintains an archive of these institutions and all the track titles of Forces’ “Climate Denial Machine” album are derived from there. The album was made after Summer ‘18, when record high temperatures were measured around the Globe – yet an another worrying sign of anthropogenic climate change.

Soundwise, the album should not to be taken as a literal sonification of a dystopian future, where the Earth is left barren and destroyed, or of a shiny utopian future, where technology has solved the climate crisis. Rather, it’s a collection of tracks that operate independently in many different levels of sonic experimentation. The sometimes mellow, sometimes harsh sounds form futures that are not binary, but shifting in tonalities and narratives.

The undisputed reality is that we need to recognize the influence of the people and institutions hijacking the scientific discourse of climate change for their own benefits. The album is dedicated to raise that awareness.

References:

Greenpeace, "The Anti-Environmental Archives": polluterwatch.com/anti-environmental-archives Robert J. Brulle: “Institutionalizing delay: foundation funding and the creation of U.S. climate change counter-movement organizations”, PhD study, Drexel University, 2013: drexel.edu/now/archive/2013/De…ber/Climate-Change/