VICE has teamed up with Saatchi & Saatchi Shanghai to launch an app that allows people to listen to music through headphones in the street and feel safe at the same time. The mobile app called Mutesic is a player that syncs with GPS to detect busy intersections and turns the music down as the user approaches them.
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Beck’s New Zealand presented «the world’s first playable poster» to celebrate its dedication to music. The beer brand that has been turning beer into art since 1874, has developed a street poster that played and remixed music when touched. The piece arrived as part of a broader campaign that is unleaded on the brand’s Facebook page.
As part of the Futbol Now campaign, Pepsi is presenting a new music album, Pepsi Beats of the Beautiful Game, that incorporates the energy of youth culture, sports and cultural diversity. For this music project, “the largest music, film and football collaboration in the brand’s history” the legendary soda label has tapped a pool of original and unique—popular and emerging—artists from all across the globe. These 11 tracks will also be used as soundtracks and a source of inspiration for the upcoming short films by acclaimed directors.
Pernod Absinthe and Maison Kitsuné explore cultures of forgotten capitals through the prism of music
The spirits brand Pernod Absinthe and the electronic music record label and fashion brand Maison Kitsuné have collaborate for the second consecutive year to launch a new multi-faceted project. The creative effort incorporates passion for adventurous travels around the globe, music and offbeat design. Maison Kitsuné is releasing a series of five short music documentaries to tell the world how the brand’s creative team sources inspiration from various distant parts of the globe. To support the launch, Pernod Absinthe released a limited-edition bottle with an eye-catching artistic design by Maison Kitsuné.
Arcade Fire, a Grammy-winning indie rock music band from Canada, has collaborated with Google to create an interactive video for its new track, Reflektor, in which the desktop or mobile users can add different visual effects as it’s playing. The project comes as one of the open-source Google Chrome experiments.
Adobe Creative Cloud is harnessing the power of the crowd to create a cover for the next dance music album DANCE RED, SAVE LIVES to be released as part of anti-AIDS initiative (RED). The tech brand is calling international design talents to submit their past works for a chance to collaborate with Futura, a renowned New-York based abstract art master.