Ondes Martenot: Radiohead's Rare Electronic Instrument

How Radiohead predicted the future

Chapter 1

The anxiety of a digital age

Chapter 2

The day the music business changed

Chapter 3

Art in the age of climate change

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Ch 3 · Art in the age of climate change
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Glossary
traffic jam (noun)
A crowded backup of vehicles that completely stops movement, often used in art to represent the overwhelming, polluting chaos of modern life. In Radiohead's song 'The National Anthem,' a wild, screeching horn section mimics a screaming highway gridlock, sounding like a frantic musical alarm for our planet's climate crisis.

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Two thousand bodies in the coastal cold, To draw a warning that the skies behold.

Sep 1

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choko The King of Limbs and nature

Sep 1

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The King of Limbs and nature

choko The band's eighth studio album directly connected human psychology to the ancient, wild forests of England.

Sep 1

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Ditching the guitars for synthesizers

choko Radiohead completely reinvented their musical style to reflect a rapidly changing, automated world.

Sep 1

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Ice Age Jukebox
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choko Sort the icy tracks to discover how Radiohead predicted the modern climate crisis.

Sep 1

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Fun Fact

The Ondes Martenot: Radiohead frequently uses the Ondes Martenot, an extremely rare 1928 electronic instrument that creates eerie, floating sounds like a musical saw.

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Sep 1

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Glossary
friends of the earth (proper noun)
An international environmental network dedicated to campaigning for a healthier, more sustainable planet. In the fight against climate change, this group partnered with the band Radiohead, who donated music proceeds and used their global tours to fund and promote the organization's urgent eco-campaigns. By bringing Friends of the Earth on tour, the band proved that 'art in the age of climate change' can turn the environmental war from a distant political debate into an active, positive mission that fans can join.

Sep 4

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Gossip

Best way to experience music?

Sep 1

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Quiz

Which song from Kid A features a brass band mimicking a chaotic, screaming traffic jam?

Sep 1

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choko Entering the virtual exhibition

Sep 1

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dystopia (noun)
An imagined state or society in which there is great suffering, injustice, or environmental degradation. For the 2000 album Kid A, Stanley Donwood painted burning glaciers to reflect anxieties about global warming.

Sep 1

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Quiz

Which environmental activist group has Radiohead actively supported, even donating proceeds from their music to them?

Sep 1

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choko Ditching the guitars for synthesizers

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Quiz

The title of Radiohead's 2011 album The King of Limbs was inspired by what natural feature?

Sep 1

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choko The icy warning of Kid A

Sep 1

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Quiz

Which 2000 Radiohead album features icy, abstract cover art depicting a range of looming, apocalyptic mountains?

Sep 1

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Quiz

In 2021, Radiohead released a free, interactive digital universe for PlayStation and PC called what?

Sep 1

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Quiz

Which 2003 album title directly referenced the controversial 2000 United States presidential election?

Sep 1

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Quiz

Which haunting 2016 song by Radiohead used stop-motion animation inspired by the 1960s children's show Trumpton to critique mob mentality?

Sep 1