Claim 'musicomagic'
Greenpeace's initiative takes place to coincide with the meeting between June 20 and 24 of the OSPAR commission , in Tenerife, to decide whether or not to create a protected area in the international waters of the Arctic over which it has jurisdiction , an area equivalent to the extension of the United Kingdom, explains the environmental organization on its website.
chords between ice and water
To draw attention to such an important event, Greenpeace asked citizens for their signature, through the Save the Arctic website, so that the Arctic be declared a protected area and encouraged them to express the reason why they consider that this space should be saved with the hashtag #voices4arctic . Some eight million people have joined this initiative and Ludovico Einaudi was inspired by his claims to compose the emotional piece.
The famous pianist traveled to the Arctic aboard the Greenpeace ship Arctic Sunrise . Due to the lack of ice shelves in the place where it was to be played, in front of the Wahlenbergbreen glacier (in Svalbard, Norway), the environmental organization built a floating platform 10 by 2.6 meters with 300 wooden triangles linked together to simulate an iceberg . The piano was placed on it. The rest? 'Musicomagic' vindication, chords released from a piano while the pieces of ice collapse from the glacier.
Music to save the Arctic