1. Beatie Wolfe is an Anglo-American conceptual artist and composer described as a "musical weirdo and visionary" known for seeing music differently and creating new formats for music and art in the digital era.
20 Facts About Beatie Wolfe
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Beatie Wolfe is the co-founder of a "profound" research project looking at the Power of Music for people living with dementia.
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Beatie Wolfe was born in South London, to an English journalist mother and an American bookseller father.
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Beatie Wolfe attended the Young Blood Theatre group at the Riverside Studios between 2000 and 2004 where she wrote and performed in a number of plays at the Riverside Theatre and Lyric Theatre.
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Beatie Wolfe attended Ibstock Place School from age 3 to 16.
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From Green to Red, described by the artist as an environmental protest piece, is a dynamic visualization of 800,000 years of atmospheric carbon dioxide data that Beatie Wolfe created in 2019 in response to the climate emergency.
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In 2019, a documentary about Beatie Wolfe's work was commissioned by the Barbican Centre in London where it premiered in October of that year.
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In 2018, the Victoria and Albert Museum invited Beatie Wolfe to hold a solo exhibition of her "world first designs for music in the digital age".
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Robert Woodrow Wilson made an update to the horn to ensure Beatie Wolfe's music got past the earth's atmosphere and into space, making this the first music broadcast into space using the Holmdel Horn Antenna.
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Beatie Wolfe's jacket has been featured in the Evening Standard, Craft Magazine, Creative Review, Huffington Post, Wired, Forbes, Recode, The Next Web, Tech Crunch and Fast Company.
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Several magazines noted that Beatie Wolfe was "the first artist to introduce the Palm Top Theatre to her product".
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Beatie Wolfe was the first original content creator on the world's leading meditation app Calm and continues to create Sleep Stories and Sleep Music for the site.
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In July 2011, Beatie Wolfe performed at Secret Garden Party in Huntington.
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David Amram, who declared Beatie Wolfe to be "the Baroness of bob", invited Beatie Wolfe to perform at his residency night at the Cornelia Street Cafe in New York.
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On 7 April 2008, Beatie Wolfe performed her first of several New York shows with Amram at Cornelia Street Cafe, alongside The Sopranos star John Ventimiglia.
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Beatie Wolfe performed at New York clubs Rockwood Music Hall, The Living Room, Pete's Candy Store and on East Village Radio a residency with Punchdrunk's theatre show Sleep No More.
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Beatie Wolfe was inspired by the work of the neurologist Oliver Sacks after family members became inflicted by the condition.
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Beatie Wolfe gave a TEDMED talk about this project in March 2020.
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Beatie Wolfe writes a column for London's Evening Standard and is a contributor for The Nation, Dezeen, Design Milk and Birdy Magazine in addition to having curated The Los Angeles Times' inaugural NewStory festival.
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Beatie Wolfe was invited to join Stephen Fry as one of the first sleep story narrators on the meditation site Calm with Wolfe writing, producing and narrating the first original content on the site.