Articles about Culture
Ice Music
Jazz musician Terje Isungset on why a trumpet made from a Greenland glacier will sound different to one made from a polluted frozen lake.
Seda Monastery
Perched on the edge of the Tibetan plateau, one of the largest religious institutes in the world lives under the threat of demolitions by the Chinese government.
Landscape For Giants
A collaboration between Inuit of Baffin Island and Canada Goose has elevated recycling into a dynamic tool for community building.
Visions of the Year 2000
At the turn of the twentieth century a team of illustrators created their futuristic vision of the birth of the twenty-first century.
The Year of the Panther
Afrofuturism first emerged as a challenge to why there were so few black science fiction writers, yet the movement has grown in range and strength to ask fundamental questions about the way we structure our world.
AI Killed the Radio Star?
Last year Francois Pachet was poached by Spotify as one of the world’s foremost pioneers in applying AI to music. As he pushes computers closer to the Holy Grail of composing their own works, should musicians fear or celebrate him?
