Bengaluru's Echoes of Earth: Protecting the planet through music

A festival near Bengaluru is stringing together sustainable design and waste management with music

Published: May 31, 2018

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Owls have been a symbol of wisdom and intelligence. This installation—with a head that rotates 180 degrees—is a reminder of how majestic they are, and the importance of their role in the ecosystem. The structure makes most of natural materials such as gunny bags, jute ropes, arcea nut plates, fruit-wood, and junk metal.

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One of the festival’s focus areas is to reduce its overall carbon footprint. To that end, its Big Tree stage in 2017 was run entirely by solar panels.

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The 2017 festival kickstarted with a traditional Carnatic dance form of Dollu Kunitha

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The festival pays tribute to India’s cultural heritage. Taking inspiration from the ancient art form of puppetry and toy making, and the town of Channapatna in Karnataka, is the World Fusion stage. Standing over 60 feet tall, it is made of bamboo and paper

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Alo Wala, an Indian tropical bass group from Denmark taking over the global club movement performed at the Yaksha Stage

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Designed by Team Echoes of Earth and Artist Hemangini
Our Electro Live stage is inspired by the wings of a dragonfly. Wings represent strength, freedom, spirituality and flight. Dragonfly wings are intricate, attractive and lift your spirits up. They can make you fly to another dimension physically and spiritually. These dragonfly wings each stood over 100ft tall and were made out of junked media