Sounds Right x DRIFT Radio

What if climate action began with listening?

Over the past months, Sounds Right × Drift Radio have worked with Copenhagen’s underground music community, exploring how culture and music can reshape our relationship with the living world.

As a result, twenty-four young artists released new tracks with NATURE credited as a co-artist. Alongside this, artist talks and workshops created space for young participants from across youth organisations to gather around questions that rarely enter conventional climate conversations:

How do we listen to nature? How do we continue to act when urgency becomes exhaustion? And how might sound, voice, and emotional connection to place deepen our willingness to care?

Much of today’s climate discourse still moves at the speed of crisis and data. Yet, as Christiana Figueres reflects in UN Live’s 'The Shift' Series: "facts alone rarely move people, climate change is ultimately a story about who we are and who we choose to be." The full article can be found here.

Working with Drift Radio is yet another example that cultural scenes often develop new ways of sensing and responding to the world long before they enter mainstream debate. Slowness, collective listening, and artistic experimentation can become powerful foundations for engagement and long-term action.

Sounds Right began with a simple idea: recognise Nature as an artist.
Today, NATURE sits among the top 1% of artists on global streaming platforms, generating royalties for conservation and restoration projects worldwide.

Perhaps the most important shift is cultural? The collective movement from seeing nature as a resource to relating to it as a collaborator.

This exploration would not have been possible without the support of the Tuborgfondet and the many collaborators who helped shape it along the way — Drift Radio, CONCITO, Kara Oehler, metaLAB (at) Harvard, Berlin, and Basel, Denmark Natural History Museum, Michael Magee, Behave Green, Hanna van den Driest, Anton Sandholt, and all the artists: Timmyia, Mija Milovic, Ydegirl, Soli City, Barbro, Ela Lung & Urmur, Afvikling Kassetter, Z Amor & Bjørk, Vio Lino, Zoumer, Hasfeldt, Fruit DJ, Main Phase, Muskila, DJ JM, Heddah, Heva Vaupel, Fransesca Burattelli, Xenia Xamanek, August Rosenbaum, Ryong, Franarchy, Johan Carøe, and Debbie Sings.