Elegy for the Arctic - for Greenpeace - 2016
- Medium: ViewBoard LED large format display 55
- Size: 1243 x 714mm
In June 2016, Greenpeace persuaded the Italian composer and pianist to play on a specially built ‘iceberg’ within 100m of a crumbling glacier as part of their campaign to save the Arctic.
In the video, Einaudi is seen performing his minimalist music in the breathtakingly beautiful surroundings of Wahlenbergbreen glacier in Svalbard, Norway. As he plays one descending scale, huge chunks of ice calve off the glacier. To get to the spectacular location, Einaudi caught a ride with the Greenpeace ship Arctic Sunrise.
Einaudi premiered his new composition, Elegy for the Arctic, as governments gathered in Tenerife to consider a proposal to protect 10% of the Arctic Ocean.
Save the Arctic is a Greenpeace campaign to protect the Arctic, principally by preventing oil drilling and unsustainable industrial fishing in the area completely, surrounded by an Arc-tic-Environmental economics-Zone.
THE ARTIST: LUDOVICO ENAUDI
Ludovico Enaudi is an Italian pianist and composer of contemporary classical music.