Changing tempo and four other finds
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Change is on the horizon. Whether it's how we work, shop, play or dine, for the foreseeable future things are going to be different. But with change comes opportunity and this month’s Five Finds is celebrating just that. If you enjoy these emails please forward them on.
Image: Still from The making of Sounds Of Change with Erland Cooper © BBC Radio 6 Music
Sounds of Change
BBC Radio 6 Music’s Chris Hawkins invited his listeners to send in recordings of the sounds they have noticed staying at home during lockdown. Composer Erland Cooper has compiled them and the final piece is a thing of beauty! (The song starts at 04:06).
Social change
In light of current events in America this important book is next on our reading list. The author Reni Eddo-Lodge is asking that anyone who buys the book donate the same amount to the Minnesota Freedom Fund. Black lives matter.
Image: Louis Wood, The Lord of the Flies (entry for the 50 Watts' Polish Book Cover Contest) (CC BY-ND 2.0)
Changing perceptions
Anyone who’s read Lord of the Flies by William Golding knows that the shipwrecked boys from the story turn on each other. But when a group of schoolboys were marooned on an island for 15 months in 1965, things turned out very differently.
Image: © MSCHF
Changing art
How do you increase the price of an artwork? Cut it into pieces of course. New York-based group MSCHF did just that with a Damien Hirst spotted painting and it’s very good.
Changing tempo
Think you know Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony? Think again. This Radiolab podcast explores a theory that the composer actually intended his music to be played much, much faster.
Studio news
Slowing down
As part of our ongoing work with Dragonfly Tea, we’ve been working to bring their print adverts in line with their social media campaigns. This ad inside the Waitrose Weekend newspaper encouraged us all to press pause and take a moment to reflect.
