Radiohead’s Thom Yorke – who last month led a lobby at Westminster calling for fairer world trade - is supporting a Friends of the Earth scheme ahead of the Earth Summit next month. The green group have set up an audio website and are asking people who have been affected by a large corporation to record and send a noise over the internet. They plan to use any noise submitted as part of an art installation to tell world leaders, including Tony Blair, that action is needed to protect the environment. People can choose from a list of noises that they feel best described their feelings about they way corporations have treated them, or they can record their own noise. The noises will be used to provide a ‘soundscale’ as part of the charity’s art installation which will be displayed outside the Earth Summit at the end of August. Yorke had already posted a message on the website - www.radioearthsummit.org - and Radiohead have given a rarely seen short film and an audio stream of 'Mountion Picture Soundtrack' from Kid A to the campaign.
Jul 16, 2002
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Radiohead make noise for Friends of the Earth
Thom Yorke backs a Friends of the Earth audio campaign where people submit noises describing corporate harm, for an installation outside the Earth Summit.