Sam Potter is a musician, artist and author based in Berlin. A founding member of cult band Late Of The Pier, he has also collaborated as a writer with Franz Ferdinand and more recently in stitching together the mysteriously rediscovered works of the late February Montaine. Across his many fields of output he looks at helping people reconnect to the emotional properties of sound. ‘Ecstatic Data Sets’, his recent book for Rough Trade Books, explores emerging technology’s role in helping us better understand who we are through music, and led to events presenting the work at The Science Museum in London, on Soho Radio, and at UK festivals including Sea Change. At The Barbican Centre and Oval Space his Blackout experiences saw artists like Mica Levi play anonymously in the pitch black, giving artists a chance to experiment freely and the audience to feel new music on a deeper level. Following a NASA funded artist residency Sam started Earth Cry, with fellow composer Edo Van Breemen and climate journalist Geoff Dembicki. The multi platform and 4D sound installation of ‘sonified’ climate change data is building new means to create a much needed emotional connectivity with the science that describes the climate crisis.