Combining the talents and expertise of world class scientists, composers, musicians, artists, and technologists, our growing portfolio offers engaging music for everyone while communicating critical insights about the climate crisis.
We invite you to listen, watch, and enjoy our music including our science-guided original compositions as well as science-informed collaborations and music campaigns. We share our music to inspire action, so we’ve created resources to help you make a difference.
Original Compositions
Our original science-inspired portfolio began with “Climate” in 2015, which helped prove the concept that music can inform, engage and motivate. We now have five additional compositions and a new one currently under development, scheduled to be released in mid-2025. Each composition is the result of a creative process between composers and scientists where climate science is translated into musical elements and woven together into an audible story. All compositions are supplemented with a visual element that contextualizes the specific climate theme of each piece.
on the brink
by Theodore Wiprud
explores the vicious cycles that have brought us to the brink and the virtuous cycles that could yet pull us back
Voice of the Animals
by Scarlet Rivera
highlights the inter-relationship between natural landscapes, climate, and biodiversity
Digital paintings done by Alisa Singer: Environmental Graphiti – the Art of Climate Change
Collaborations
Our collaborations include songs and compositions by composers and recording artists who have worked with our science team to inform their artistic process. All pieces are created to reflect a message about a climate issue, with more general insights from the science team. These collaborations have included our work with Oakland-based hip hop artist Khafre Jay, the San Francisco Conservatory of Music’s Technology and Applied Composition Program, and our Be Cool! Campaign with Music Declares Emergency, and more.
Action Campaigns
Our music campaigns aim to involve musicians and creators from around the world to share their take on one of our climate-minded prompts. In our Play for the Planet campaigns, we asked people “What do we want the future to sound like?” We were inspired by the array of submissions we received. We are excited to have launched our latest campaign last fall called Be Cool!, which was developed in workshops with songwriters and involves the voices of young people everywhere.
Current Campaigns
Past Campaigns
Play for the Planet
Play for the Planet is a light-hearted, occasional action campaign that we produce, inviting musicians of all stripes to provide a musical answer to the question: What do we want the future to sound like? Click on the image to see responses from past campaigns!
