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Combining the talents and expertise of world class scientists, composers, musicians, artists, and technologists, we enable the creation and staging of science-guided music and visual experiences to inspire people to engage actively on the issue of climate change.
Across diverse communities, climate awareness and action may take different forms. That’s where music fits in—music is a universal language that defies communication barriers, socioeconomic disparities, and cultural differences. Through music, we’re able to bring communities together and celebrate our rich diversity.
Music is familiar, accessible, and—for most people—much easier to relate to than articles or lectures about the climate crisis. We created The ClimateMusic Project to harness this universal language to tell the urgent story of climate change to broad and diverse audiences in a way that resonates, educates, and motivates.
Icarus in Flight is an original chamber work by composer Richard Festinger with visual designer Weidong Yang (Kinetech Arts) in collaboration with The Climate Music Project. Science advisors include, Dr. William Collins and Dr. Alison Marklein. It explores three human drivers of the climate crisis–population growth, carbon emissions, and land-use change–over two centuries, from 1880-2080, performed by the award-winning Telegraph Quartet. Here is the last 10 minutes of the performance -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9HA3sghiMUE
Hip hop is an important genre in advancing climate change awareness and action. Khafre Jay performs Everything Matters featuring Martin Luther McCoy - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=coWN2GJRumQ. It is a poignant delivery of the issues and what individuals can do.
One of the latest compositions is by Raine Stern that was featured in a 2026 nationally streamed concert - https://climatemusic.org/our-music/our-music-feel-it-all/.
Leonardo serves as a community forging a transdisciplinary network to convene, research, collaborate, and disseminate best practices at the nexus of arts, science and technology worldwide. Leonardo serves a network of transdisciplinary scholars, artists, scientists, technologists and thinkers, who experiment with cutting-edge, new approaches, practices, systems and solutions to tackle the most complex challenges facing humanity today.
As a not-for-profit 501(c)3 enterprising think tank, Leonardo offers a global platform for creative exploration and collaboration reaching tens of thousands of people across 135 countries. Their flagship publication, Leonardo, the world’s leading scholarly journal on transdisciplinary art, anchors a robust publishing partnership with MIT Press; our partnership with Arizona State University infuses educational innovation with digital art and media for lifelong learning; our creative programs span thought-provoking events, exhibits, residencies and fellowships, scholarship and social enterprise ventures.
The associated Leosphere describes the global, cross-disciplinary network of artists, scientists, technologists, and scholars connected by Leonardo, the International Society for the Arts, Sciences and Technology. The term acts as a metaphor for a borderless, living community where hybrid creatives share knowledge, push cultural boundaries, and use imagination to solve complex global challenges. Topics range from neuroscience to genomics, economics, and the environment.
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