UN Live’s CEO Katja Iversen Talks About the Power of Popular Culture and ‘Sounds Right’ — Global Issues

by Naureen Hossain (big apple)Monday, April 22, 2024Inter Press Service

In an unique interview with IPS, Iversen shares the motivation behind this progressive undertaking.

The Sounds Proper initiative was formally launched on April 18. It established NATURE as an official artist, eligible to earn royalties. Music followers have been invited to assist nature conservation by listening to NATURE’s recordings or tracks with musicians. This initiative was developed and delivered by the Museum for the United Nations (UN Dwell) and a broad vary of companions within the music and environmental sectors.

IPS: How was the Sounds Proper initiative conceived? What’s the significance of recognizing NATURE in the identical method that we acknowledge and reward musical artists via royalties?

Katja Iversen: The “Sounds Proper” initiative was conceived as a world music motion to immediate conversations in regards to the worth of nature, elevate progressive financing for conservation, and encourage hundreds of thousands of followers to take motion.

The unique thought got here out of a undertaking known as VozTerra in Colombia, which the Museum for the United Nations—UN Dwell helped provoke. The initiative, because it appears to be like in the present day, has been developed by UN Dwell in shut partnership with musicians, creatives, and nature sound recordists, in addition to environmental, campaigning, and international advocacy organizations and VozTerra.

The importance of the initiative is that it treats NATURE because the artist she actually is and nature’s sounds—resembling chicken songs, waves, wind, and rainfall—as creative works deserving of royalty cost. It leverages the ability of music to attach followers with nature by having artists function pure sounds in new and current tracks.

It’s going to be actually large. To check issues out, NATURE was discretely established as an official artist two weeks in the past on varied streaming platforms, together with with some pure nature sounds. As of in the present day, on Spotify alone, NATURE is within the prime 10 % of artists, with over 500k month-to-month listeners and nearly 5 million streams—even earlier than the initiative is formally launched and a playlist with artists that includes nature tracks goes on-line.

IPS: How was the Museum for the UN—UN Dwell capable of convey collectively artists, music executives, and environmental teams for this initiative?

Iversen: The Museum for the UN—UN Dwell, along with EarthPercent, has organized the collaboration between artists, music executives, and environmental teams by leveraging our distinctive place on the intersection of tradition, sustainable growth, and diplomacy. We, at UN Dwell, have a monitor report of partaking very various communities in progressive cultural programmes, and we have been in a position to attract on our intensive networks and entrepreneurial abilities to convey collectively a broad number of teams round an excellent thought.

It’s a actually distinctive coalition of companions, together with EarthPercent, AKQA, Hempel Basis, Dalberg, Rely Us In, VozTerra, Axum, Music Declares Emergency, Earthrise, Eleutheria Group, The Listening Planet, Biophonica, Group Arts Community, Limbo Music, LD Communications, No. 29, and Uncommon.  We developed the initiative in session with the UN Division of International Communications, and we’ve additionally joined forces with The Nature Conservancy, Wildlife Conservation Society, APCO, Riky Rick Basis, AWorld x ActNow and others to achieve the numerous hundreds of thousands of individuals.

IPS: How do you foresee artists and environmental teams from growing nations connecting with this initiative now and sooner or later?Iversen: We’re very critical about this not being a International North endeavor. Recognizing that the worldwide majority is commonly on the forefront of experiencing the impacts of lack of biodiversity and local weather change whereas dwelling in a number of the world’s most necessary ecosystems, that is additionally the place the options and a very powerful voices are discovered—each the voices of people and nature. Of the primary group of 16 artists on the primary Feat Nature playlist, there are musicians from Venezuela, Colombia, Kenya, India, and Indonesia. And on future compilations, extra will come.

Simply think about that as NATURE the artist grows and grows, increasingly more musicians will wish to collaborate and have nature of their music. We’re trying ahead to working with musicians from throughout the globe and can, in time, probably additionally develop particular releases centered on sure geographies, points, or teams.

The funds raised shall be distributed below the steerage of the Sounds Proper Knowledgeable Advisory Panel, a bunch of world-leading biologists, environmental activists, representatives of Indigenous Peoples, and specialists in conservation funding. Nearly all of the specialists are from the worldwide majority.

IPS: How does ‘Sounds Proper’ go towards serving the SDGs?

Iversen: Nicely, we’re the Museum for the United Nations, and we’re right here to rally the world across the work, values, and objectives of the United Nations, so naturally Sounds Proper can also be aligned with the SDGs.

Extra notably, it aligns with the objectives associated to life on land (SDG 15) and underwater (SDG 14) by funding conservation initiatives via royalties collected from nature-based recordings. Moreover, by elevating consciousness and fostering an appreciation for the atmosphere via music, the initiative helps SDG 13 (local weather motion) and SDG 17 (partnerships for the objectives) and likewise justice.

Importantly, Sounds Proper is an instance of the ability of in style tradition and exemplifies how artistic industries and in style tradition platforms can contribute to reaching the SDGs, together with by merging creative expression with environmental activism.

IPS: How does the Museum for the UN—UN Dwell leverage tradition to advertise the SDGs?

Iversen: If we might remedy the world’s issues and obtain the SDGs with knowledge, information, figures, and reviews alone, it will have been carried out. What we additionally want is to work with tradition, norms, opinions, emotions, and hearts. We all know that in style tradition—movie, music, gaming, sports activities, meals, trend—impacts individuals’s opinions, norms, and actions. So if we actually wish to change and if we wish to attain the numerous, we go to the place the numerous are. It’s of their earbuds, it’s on their telephones, it’s on their screens, and it’s on their sports activities fields. That’s the place you hit each the pinnacle and the center.

That’s what we want, along with the information and the figures. U.N. Dwell labored with in style tradition, unleashed the ability of in style tradition to achieve many individuals—hundreds of thousands and billions of individuals—as a result of they use in style tradition. So we now have to go the place the individuals are with the messages they’ll perceive and the actions they wish to take.

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