Shifting Basslines #2: Clouds Are More Than Water | Sarj

Research Institute for Sustainability (RIFS)

Shifting Basslines is a podcast series about sustainability and club culture. It is s dedicated to creating awareness, sharing knowledge and diving into the complex relationship between the planet and raving. In this episode facilitator, collective care practitioner, and music nerd Sarj Lynch finds old cassette tapes in the basement and wonders how they are linked to clouds. Learn why music is more than just sounds and why storing anything in a “cloud” besides water is actually quite impossible. Interview Partner: Marina Otero Verzier, Richard Akingbehin 📲 Link to Transcript: https://acrobat.adobe.com/id/urn:aaid:sc:EU:6b70ec91-1765-4635-be8e-6f73f0214a8d SHOWNOTES 📲 Devine, Kyle. (2019). Decomposed. The Political Ecology of Music. MIT Press. 📲 Guide: STOMP: Sustainable Tools for Online Music Practices. https://thegreenroom.fr/en/stomp 📲 Digital Streaming Has Environmental Costs: https://uclaradio.com/digital-streaming-has-environmental-costs 📲 Is Spotify Bad For The Environment? https://www.newstatesman.com/environment/2021/11/how-environmentally-damaging-is-music-streaming?campaign=affiliatesection 📲 Carbon impact of video streaming: https://www.carbontrust.com/our-work-and-impact/guides-reports-and-tools/carbon-impact-of-video-streaming 📲 Data Centre Map: https://www.datacentermap.com/germany/berlin/ 📲 Digital Services and Cloud Computing: https://www.umweltbundesamt.de/en/topics/digitalisation/green-it/digital-services-cloud-computing#research-project-on-the-environmental-impact-of-cloud-computing 📲 Green Web Foundation: https://www.thegreenwebfoundation.org/ CREDITS - Idea, Project Curation & Creative Production: Kerstin Meißner, https://www.rifs-potsdam.de/en/people/kerstin-meissner - Sound Design & Composition: Yuliia Vlaskina - Editing: Sarah Farina - Artwork: Opashona Ghosh - Accessibility Support: Saverio Cantoni - Mixing and Mastering: Yuliia Vlaskina