PRESS & EPK
PRESS & EPK
Everything you need to cover Music in Space.
A 5-year global music + film + climate project — 7 continents, 43 countries, one concert
at the South Pole, one UN climate resolution, and a documentary film coming 2027.
BIOGRAPHY
The Earth as the First Instrument
Most of us only ever look at the planet. Music in Space listens to it. Glacier meltwater, a market waking at dawn, wind moving through places no orchestra could ever reach — every sound is recorded from the Earth itself, then composed into music that lets a listener hear the world the way it actually sounds: alive, fragile, and running out of quiet. But hearing it is only the start. The point is what happens next — the small, daily choices a person makes differently once the planet stops being an abstraction and starts being a sound they can't forget.
How It Began
The journey began with a warning. Danish sound designer Bjørn Vido — whose work spans Oscar-nominated films and honours from Cannes, Epica, and LIA New York — was told by a doctor he might not survive a health crisis at home. He sold everything and left with a microphone, chasing survival more than any cause.
The cause found him at the bottom of the world. It was on the South Pole, standing in the silence among the penguins, that something turned. Watching a creature so at home in the harshest place on Earth — and so exposed to how fast that Earth is changing — his own escape became something larger. The environmental awakening happened there, on the ice. What had been one man's flight became a mission about everyone's planet.
Seven Continents, One Question
From that turning point, the project reached seven continents and 43 countries, gathering the sound of a planet under strain. Each recording is a data point you can feel: the retreat of a glacier, the thinning of a soundscape, the places going silent. Together they ask a question that borders and languages can't dodge — and then a harder one. Not just what does it cost us to lose this?, but what will you actually do differently tomorrow?
From Sound to Movement
The recordings grew into something the world could gather around: a live cinematic concert, two albums featuring artists from 18 countries, and a 75-minute documentary film arriving in 2027. The collaboration itself became part of the point — 18 nations, one shared score. A global habit is only broken by a global effort, and the music was built to prove that people from anywhere can pull in the same direction.
The World Listens Back
Then something rare happened. The project reached the United Nations and helped shape a climate resolution passed with full global consensus — the whole world, for once, agreeing. It drew the backing of HRH Queen Mary of Denmark, Academy Award-winning actress Jane Fonda, NASA astronauts, heads of state, and ministers from five continents. Not as an endorsement of a person, but as recognition of a purpose: that art can move people to act where facts and warnings alone have stalled.
MUSIC IN SPACE
The planet has a voice. This project carries it — not to be admired, but to change how people live.
The Invitation
Music in Space was never meant to be watched from the outside. At its heart is one stubborn belief: that a person who really hears the planet will start to live differently — and that millions of small changes are what actually move the world. From a doctor's waiting room to the ice of the South Pole to the edge of space — it all points to one thing. The concert from the edge of space isn't the finale. It's the invitation to change one thing, and then another.
To the Edge of Space
The next chapter looks outward to look back. The Remixes album arrives in September 2026, and then comes a first in human history: a live concert broadcast from the stratosphere, 45 kilometres up, carried aloft by weather balloon. From that height the planet reveals itself as it truly is — a single, borderless, fragile system, with no lines drawn across it. Seen whole, it's harder to treat carelessly. That's the whole idea: change the view, and you start to change the habits.
PRESS QUOTES
"One of the most ambitious independent music-documentary projects of its generation."
HOLLYWOOD TIMES MAGAZINE
"A global journey that defies categorisation — part concert, part documentary, part climate manifesto."
NEW YORK CELEBRITY
"Bjørn Vidø has created something rare: a music project with genuine global reach and a message that transcends borders."
LOS ANGELES MAGAZINE
VOICES FROM THE FILM
"Our world needs climate action on all fronts. Everything — everywhere — all at once."
— HRH QUEEN MARY OF DENMARK, VANUATU
"You're so overwhelmed by the sheer beauty of the planet…"
— Mike Mullane, NASA Astronaut
"As long as the world fails to eliminate our collective addiction to fossil fuels, climate impact will only get worse."
— JANE FONDA
"We are making a change in the world. I always loved being part of something bigger."
— BOOHLE
LIVE SHOW SPECS
DURATION
90 minutes
FORMAT
Live music + cinematic projection
STAGE
Large screen / LED wall + standard PA
CAPACITY
500 to 50,000+
LANGUAGES
EN / DK / ZH + local languages
AVAILABILITY
2026 dates open
CREDITS
HRH Queen Mary of Denmark · Jane Fonda · Frank White (coined "The Overview Effect") · Mike Mullane & Andreas Mogensen (NASA/ESA) · Ishmael Kalsakau (President of Vanuatu) · John King (Minister of Culture, Barbados) · Yasmine Fouad (Minister of Environment, Egypt) · Manaus Mahuta (Foreign Minister, New Zealand) · Boohle (South Africa) · Maponga (South Africa) · Emmanuel Berrylla (Barbados)
FUNDED WITH HELP FROM
KODA · Statens Kunstfond
KEY FACTS
PROJECT STARTED
2019
COUNTRIES VISITED
43
CONTINENTS
All 7 (including Antarctica / South Pole)
DAYS OF FILMING
500+
ARTISTS
18 countries
ALBUMS
2 out now — The Overview, Astronaut in Africa. The Remixes coming September 2026.
DOCUMENTARY
75 minutes, coming 2027
UN
Climate resolution passed with full global consensus
FEATURED VOICES
PROJECT STARTED
