London’s Barbican Centre commissioned a documentary about the pioneering artist Beatie Wolfe as a highlight of its 2019 ‘Life Rewired’ season, directed by Ross Harris. With the season investigating the impact of the pace and extent of technological change in our culture and society, and looking at how we can grasp and respond to the seismic shifts these advances will bring about, there are few artists who exemplify this exploration as much as Beatie Wolfe

In Oliver Sacks’s Musicophilia he writes ‘Music can lift us out of depression or move us to tears — it is a remedy, a tonic, orange juice for the ear.’ Taking that as inspiration, Wolfe explores what music can look like in the digital age, asking what has been lost, what can be reclaimed and what remains to be updated and innovated

Stream the documentary above courtesy of Dezeen Magazine