Piano player Stefan Aaron is a man with an unusual
dream; he yearns to play an orange piano and sing beneath the red North Pole
sign. This might seem a rather random ambition, but it’s actually part of a tour
of extreme locations, known as the Orange Piano Tour,
which has included a mock flying carpet suspended from a helicopter, the Great
Wall of China, a 4204-metre mountain in the Swiss Alps, and a 600-metre
Norwegian cliff called Pulpit Rock. This is far from a gimmick, though; he uses
each location as the inspiration for the song that he plays, seeking to
replicate the spectacular settings via the music that he creates. In this case,
an exclusively written and produced North Pole pop track will be the played. It
will be the first time anyone has performed at the North Pole.
Stefan’s
performance in the North Pole will be an impressive logistical feat, involving
his piano and film crews being brought there from the Russian port Murmansk
with the help of 50 Years of Victory, the largest nuclear-powered icebreaker in
the world. He aims to use this event to raise awareness of climate change.
Given that sea ice in the Arctic is thought to be declining at such a rate that
it might even cease to exist altogether by the end of the 21st
Century, this is clearly a worthy cause. He already has all of the practical
considerations worked out, and is almost set to go. All he needs now is the
necessary finances, which he is attempting to raise via the crowdfunding
platform Indiegogo.
Stefan is one of the most innovative performers of recent years, combining
dramatic settings with equally captivating compositions. This performance of
his North Pole song is set to be his most impressive yet.
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