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WINGS OF CHANGE
WORLD SONG
Our world needs transformative change. Let’s celebrate our big mama by taking action towards her and our well-being. New resources added to the WORLD SONG Linktree -
Books, Podcasts, Organizations, documentaries that are working on the front of making a change. Go check it and share it with #worldsong💜
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Access SONG and EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES of the WORLD SONG here: https://linktr.ee/WORLDSONG
THE WORLD SONG a collaborative effort of international artists, who are voluntarily gathering their voices and sounds for the co-creation of a musical wake up call. To create real impact Elena gathered educational resources in a #Linktree for spreading the work of individuals, non profits and institutions who are working at the front to make a change, such as The Game Changers, Factory Farming Awareness Coalition (FFAC), Regenerative Future,etc.
ACT LOCAL
THINK GLOCAL
KNOW YOUR ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT
BLACK LIVES MATTER
SUPPORT SMALL BUSINESSES
CLIMATE CHANGE IS REAL
WOMEN'S RIGHTS ARE HUMAN RIGHTS
ONLINE ACTIVISM
OFFLINE ACTION
Elena Shirin - World Song
feat.
Aunty, Kuba, James Muschler, Grayson Fiske, Dominick Joseph Calabrese, Nnamdi Umi, Max Bogner
Mixed & Mastered by Jordan Lipaz
#happyearthday #earthday #sustainablefashion #sustainability #climatechange #veganism
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A song as a stage for visual arts, an exhibition as a music video: Three Austrian artists create a new dimension of intermedial exploration through the interaction of their creative resources. Crossing the Alps in a flying udder as a performative expedition sets a widely visible sign and marks the genesis of new perspectives. A tender voice out of the soul evokes intuitive bridges to higher spheres. Soundscapes and shapes intrinsically merge into an essence of perception: With irresistible ease, transformation spreads its wings and glides on the WINGS OF CHANGE into the alteration of the present.
sound, lyrics, vocals by Elena Shirin
making up by Lilian Peschek
directed by Barbara Anna Husar
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all artworks available at galerie-im-venet-haus.de/
further artworks available at hilleckes-probst.de/ and galeriemaximilianhutz.at/
PLANETARY OSCILLATION
Planetary Oscillation is an interactive surround sound installation, that allows the audience to experience the orbits of our solar system on an auditory level. The way sounds move through the room is based on the relationship between the eight planets of our solar system. Together with her husband, the Viennese artist Elena Shirin developed a mathematical system that translates astrological data (distance to the sun, size, orbital period) into different musical parameters (pitch, sustain, distortion, and panning).
The composition is continuously evolving as the patterns of the different orbits are unfolding their irregular relations in the form of rhythms.
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In collaboration with dancer and choreographer, Victoria Primus, Elena developed
Planetary Oscillation Embodiment, using dance, vocals, and recordings from space to strengthen the immersive experience. The choreography and vocal performance are inspired by planetary characteristics and their mythological meaning.
They performed the piece at Bruckner University, Linz and at the music and art festival JOURNEY TO TARAB.
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follow @planetaryoscillation on IG!
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about
"Electric sparkling trip-hop & neo-soul...the follow-up of Erykah Badu, Lizz Wright, Jamila Woods or even Alicia Keys" – Groove Magazin (Germany)
A trained singer (Anton Bruckner University Linz) and equipped with a formidable voice, Elena Shirin made first waves as a featured artist on numerous electronic music projects while still in her teens.
By her early 20s she had left Europe to tour the US (with Moon Hooch, among others); and collected herself a mosaic of experiences. Right when her solo debut, "From A to Be", finally was released,
the pandemic hit hard. All of a sudden, Elenas favourite place to express herself - the stage - was a forbidden zone. T
hose early works nonetheless were well received - from BBC1 to Germanys Musikexpress. With a bouqet of influences from poetry and cinematic soundscapes to energetic beats, from classical music, jazz, tribal rhythm to hip-hop, Elena's songwriting proves both great craftmanship and astonishing ease; with subtle, yet profound lyrics; never naive, yet positively encouraging.
