Shaped Sound™ Sculpture Garden

A song for uplifting our collective power, our resilience, and our ability to heal through the challenges of living in a world facing multiple, intersecting crisis. Antidotee on Spotify

Title track of Meklit's newest EP. This is a song for ancestors, for the ones who came before and crafted pentatonic music from the ground up. It's in honor of the meeting of American Jazz and Ethiopian traditional sounds, and the links between them. Listen to Ethio Blue on Spotify.

Blinky Bill is a Kenyan producer artist and DJ who has just released his latest album We Cut Keys 2 that taps into tribal African drums, electronic music, Jazz and Hiphop. The album has been included in Mixmag's Top Albums of 2024 already.

Bure is the 3rd single of Muthoni Drummer Queen’s (MDQ) 3-track EP titled Monsoon. Bure is a poignant and gentle banger that declares unreservedly the deep love a lover feels for their person, typical of the im deep in love stage of romantic love. "This song is for lovers deep in life and in love. I hope to give words to people seeking ways to communicate their love, affection, care, and passion for each other even after the years have passed, to remind one another of the tenderness of new love" Muthoni explains.

Suzie Noma is the 3rd single off Muthoni Drummer Queen's album SHE. Coming after the politically conscious "Kenyan Message" and socially aware "Million Voice" Suzie Noma is a celebration of female friendship and empowerment of women all over Africa. It’s about women building something together with one another to create financial freedom for themselves and future generations.

Criminal is the 5th Single from Muthoni Drummer Queen's newly released album titled SHE. Criminal is loosely based on the real-life story of Felista Wanjiru, the widow of Kenya's most wanted criminal Simon Matheri, who only found out her husband’s true identity after he was gunned down by the police.

From Bach's Prelude - a piece Joshua has performed countless times over more than three decades, to Duet, a cry of longing composed in isolation during COVID lockdowns, to Immunity, his most recent composition, these pieces represent Joshua's Immunity project, an intimate exploration of vulnerability and human connection inspired by his ongoing journey with Long COVID.

Kayla writes: "My offering is a time capsule of timestretched sound. to dare to collapse farness into closeness, turning distance into perpetual motion, is the rhythm and heartbeat of us. sending whispers to those I hold kinship with knowing and unknowingly -- I miss you even when I haven't met you yet."

Tharanga composed and recorded this melody in an attempt at stripping off all grandeur of Opera and Classical symphony and finding simplicity in words, thought and heart. It is part of one of her passion projects “simple truths”.

Fellowship is a composition by Julie created using various anonymised data from the TED Fellows community. Recordings and synthetic sounds are blended into an abstract soundscape composed to resonate with the Shaped Sound™ sculptural forms.

Eric provided the data used within Julie's Fellowship soundscape. The information has been collated from various surveys and data visualisations about the TED Fellows network over the past decade. Eric is the CEO of Vibrant Data Labs – a mission-first data science company building open-source tools to amplify the collective impact of funding for climate change solutions.

Julie Freeman explores the relationship between us and the natural world. She uses data as an art material to question the role of technology in how we translate nature and the meanings we imbue it with. She transforms complex processes and data from natural sources into animations, kinetic objects, images, and sound compositions.