Sonic Climate Justice Playlist

A range of musical and experimental sounds to accompany Climate Justice Now! Art, Activism, Environment Today

Dana Lyons, Drop of Water (1991) (suggested by David Solnit)

Clip from Racing Extinction (2015) of last remaining male Kauai Oo bird (from Cornell’s Bioacoustic Library)

Anohni, 4 Degrees (2016)

“In solidarity with the climate conference in Paris, giving myself a good hard look, not my aspirations but my behaviors, revealing my insidious complicity. It’s a whole new world. Let’s be brave and tell the truth as much as we can. Anohni x”

Kraftwerk, Radioactivity (French Tv 1978)

Link to sounds of cougars, wild and captive, at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology.

Joni Mitchell, Big Yellow Taxi (1970)

Rage Against the Machine, Sleep Now in the Fire (1970)

R.E.M., The End Of The World As We Know It (And I Feel Fine) (2003)

The Pretenders, My City Was Gone (1984)

Beyoncé, Formation (2016)

Iceline is a collaborative piece from composer Cheryl E. Leonard and visual artist Oona Stern. It is part of Adfreeze Project, an ongoing series of multidisciplinary artworks inspired by their 2011 residency in Svalbard, a remote archipelago above the Arctic Circle.

Brian Eno, Climate Study (1983)

Postcommodity, Chacoma, from album We Lost Half the Forest and the Rest will Burn this Summer (2016)

Ulali, Mother (1994)

Sean Lennon, Yoko Ono, and Artists Against Fracking, Don't Frack My Mother (2013)

Nahko and Medicine for the People, Vultures of Culture (2013)