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Kate Molleson draws together Vivaldi’s work within the context of human-made climate change, making a compelling case for the power of art, music, and storytelling to foreground the most pressing crisis of our times. Liza Lim discusses her work Extinction Events and Dawn Chorus, composed out of relics of the past, as well as coarse samplings of ‘extinction events’. She hears from Pamela Z about her work Carbon Song Cycle, inspired by ongoing changes and upheavals in the Earth's ecosystem. Finally, Annea Lockwood talks about her ongoing process of making sonic river map installations. Molleson muses on how Lockwood’s works explore the visceral effects of sound in our environment as well as on our bodies. Ultimately, Kate concludes that our seasons no longer offer the bucolic, dramatic inspiration that they once did, but instead provoke feelings of fear and anger that are spurring on musicians across the world to foreground the planet’s peril and inspire change.

Producer Robbie Armstrong

A Whistledown Scotland production